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Saturday Morning Writing Prompt

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Ariel Gore
Mar 21, 2026
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“We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that.”

—Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun

Don’t you adore it when a sorcerer of a writer can bring you into a dialogue and a dynamic with so much realism, you feel like yo…

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