Loathing (Love Nudge)

photo by Tom Sodoge 

Local media make the trial their top story; soon everyone knows every detail of your sins. It doesn’t matter that you helped bring a criminal to justice. It doesn’t matter that you paid the price for your mistake. One woman comes up to you in the dairy aisle to ask what kind of mother you are.

‘A weekend one,’ you reply.

You could live with your fifteen minutes of ugly fame. But your girlfriends, the ones who don’t drop you, don’t hide their contempt.

You hate the thought
That, as a man, you’d have got
High fives for your sins.

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Y’know, I’m not happy with this; it’s even worse than yesterday’s. That’s what I get for winging this mini-series – this is my final Love Nudge instalment for today’s prompt, loathing.

Three Line Tales, Week 2: Round-Up

photo by Michael Hull

Wow, people! I haven’t really banged any drums about Three Line Tales yet and we’ve had 20 (update: 25 now) entries (and one longer poem) this week. I hope you’re reading each other’s lines – here’s the round-up, that’ll make the reading easier (if I left anybody out, let me know; it’s not too late to join, either – I’m happy to add latecomers):

• The bridge is sure
• A wood bridge too far
• A Troll, A Wizard and a Phantom
• Crossing the Chasm
• Boom!
• Five more steps
• Adventure
• Strange things
• Into the Wild
• Acrophobia
• Beyond
• The Bridge
• Safety
• The Bridge
• Lifted (and Vote!, an expansion of the three lines)
• bridge @ the river gorge
• One More Step
• Hiding
• Hindsight
• Roughing It
• Across
• Bridge of Love
• Moving Forward
• Another Bridge
• A Path Chosen

Thank you all for your beautiful lines! See you on Thursday.