Monday Morning Writing Prompt: Headliners

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Fiction and poetry writers can find inspiration for their writing in daily newspapers or on-line news sources. I’m sure many of us recognize story lines from real life events in TV dramas. For today’s prompt, browse the news and find your own inspiration for a poem or short fiction.

Please link your work to this post in comments. I’ll add mine later this week. Now, I’m off to find a story.

Sunday 160–“Fear-Mongering”

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Submitted to Monkey Man’s Sunday 160 in which you are challenged to use exactly 160 characters, including spaces: http://petzoldspracticalprose.blogspot.com/

I found last Tuesday’s newspaper—soggy, torn—
half-buried in a corner by the geraniums.
The crisis predicted on page one
had slipped, unfulfilled,
into obscurity.