Here are your prompts for today from
:Write about a puzzle (h/t
@Chris J. Franklin)
sensible contradiction
“That’s quite enough of that”
The kind of character who wants to know everything
TIMBUKTU BUCKAROO, uh, FICTIONEERS
Never interrupt Karen when she is working on a puzzle.
She will not be amused.
She wasn't always so stern. Once her life had softness and texture.
It was the institution that did it to her.
Took her natural curves and yearnings and pressed them into a form.
All angles and sharp edges. All flat and without nuance.
By the end of her required 13 years there, she will be a colorless cube, like all the others.
Each one neatly boxed
At right angles.