For about a year, in every photo of my sister, she was wearing cowboy boots.  I doubt she was half so startled as this scene suggests.  I had a nylon stocking over my face and the pointed head is an illusion created by the fold of the sheet.  I think it is interesting that the Frosty the Snowman plastic “ornament” is already out on the end table.  Or perhaps it is still there from the Xmas before. At any rate, short of field mice or spiders, this is as scary as it ever got at my house.

The prompt word today is “Scary.”

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Hemingway

Because he liked that lost sensation,
(that loss-of-memory elation
that comes from excess of libation)
he nightly staged that transformation
that ended all his perturbation,
thereby taking a  vacation
from the quest for information
to seed his novel’s inspiration.

As he imbibed in a rash ration
of this liquid excitation,
it also raised the consternation
of friends of long association
who watched the sad continuation
of his fine mind’s alteration
as he drank to satiation
and finally, to his tale’s cessation.

The prompt word today was “Transformation.”