For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
For Random Learning Comes
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
{This is a response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers. We are tasked to write a 100-word story to go with the photo above. Thanks for the prompt and thanks for reading!} “Why’s it so dark?” Tubby flipped a switch, bathing his messy dorm-room in light. A groan escaped from a lump of …
{This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw, a 150-word challenge based on a Google Maps location. This time we are in The Baths, The British Virgin Islands. Thank you for the prompt and for reading. And I hope you warm to my character, and that this helps warm all those, …
{This is a response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers. We are to write a 100-word piece based on the prompt photo above. Thank you as always for the prompt, and for reading! Miasma, for those of you who haven’t watched Victoria on PBS recently, is bad air, believed in the 19th century to …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw. This week the 150 word prompt based on Google Maps takes us to Manhattan, but as a twist, my story has Manhattan coming to me, or at least to a town in Northern Florida. Please enjoy my courtroom drama, and thank you, as always, for the …
{This is a response to a Friday Fictioneers photo prompt, to write 100 words, inspired by the photo. The title is an allusion to the common law concept of “adverse possession,” in which, if you squat on vacant land for long enough, without the owner putting up a fuss about it, that land could eventually …
This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a weekly prompt, that uses Google Maps locations as inspiration for a 150-word piece of writing. We are in Estonia, in Northeastern Europe, this week. I played with the name of the country to come up with my story. Which, actually, takes place quite close to home. …
{This week, What Pegman Saw goes to my neighbor Georgia, to a site outside Albany, know as Radium Springs. Water cures including mineral water, have been popular since the 1850’s, but there was apparently a craze in the twenties and thirties that promoted water including radon or radium. Many other devices and products …
{This is a response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers, to write 100 words on the photo supplied. This taped door reminded me of hurricanes past, when it was popularly understood, that you should tape your windows and glass doors, to prevent them from shattering. This has, since, been proven to be completely ineffective. It …
{This is a response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers. Friday Firctioneers is a 100-word challenge based on the photo given. Thank you for the prompt and thank you for reading!} For her fourteenth birthday, Nell’s mother left her an orphan. Under Mom’s bed lay an origami set. Neatly wrapped. Colorful. Stiff. Enduring. …
I wondered how God had known, that I’d be wearing my scratchy white smocking sundress to the picnic on that hot, hot day. But He must’ve known, because He knew everything, and because He threw up those white cliffs, right in front of us, like a giant reflection of my dress. I sat, quite …
{This is in response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers. With all the festivities of the season, I am getting to this rather late and I’m afraid this is another one of my severely mutilated 300-word tales, shrunk to 100 through brutal and not terrribly convincing plastic surgery. To see the original, see this …
{I wasn’t planning to participate this week in Friday Fictioneers, a photo prompt that has us all writing 100 words, this time, just a day or two after Christmas. But I couldn’t resist. No major research involved in this one, don’t worry. Just a few memories of goats of Christmas Past. I fear there may …
{This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw, a weekly, 150-word writing challenge based on a location in Google Maps. This week we are in Krakow, Poland, at the magnificent Julius Slowacki Theatre. I have imagined, here, a visit by a foreign dignitary, and have (perhaps tastelessly) decorated my piece with historical …
{This is a response to Friday Fictioneers, a weekly prompt, that challenges us to write 100 words, inspired by the chosen photo. Lakota is a Native American tribe and a dialect. My husband’s family history includes a great grandmother who was Lakota, and who resided in North Dakota. The name “Sioux” refers to Lakota, …
{This is a response, to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers. It is a weekly challenge, to write 100 words, inspired by the photo given. I refer to the Citroen 2CV, as a duck. When I was in Germany in the 80’s, I frequently heard people call this vehicle “die Ente,” or “the duck.” I …
{This is a response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw, a weekly challenge to write a 150-word piece, based on the area of Google Maps selected. Today we are in Frankfurt, Germany. The photo is a blurred closeup of a shoe shop, along the perimeter of a cobblestoned shopping area in Frankfurt. …
{This is a response to the prompt from Friday Fictioneers. For more information on the decline of railroads in the US, from 1960-1980, see this article. For more on resurrecting dinosaurs, à la Jurassic Park, see this. For an idea of what Francine may have in mind, click here. Thank you for the prompt, …
{This is a response to a prompt from Friday Fictioneers, run by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. The task is to write 100 words from the picture. Here’s mine! Thanks for the prompt, and for reading!} Jane loved antiques. Saturdays, she’d jump into Rustbucket, her gear-grinding, turquoise ’57 pickup. Rattling along, she’d lick her dry lips. Oh, …
{This is in response to a prompt from What Pegman Saw, a weekly photo prompt, where the task is to write 150 words about a region selected on Google Maps Street View. This week we are near Provo, Utah, at Bridal Veil Falls, in the U.S. I took liberties with the voice, and with references to …
{This is a response to a photo prompt from Friday Fictioneers. The task is to write 100 words based on the prompt. This reminds me of a Minnesota landscape, near and dear to my heart, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It’s right in the pointy Northeast corner area of Minnesota, hugging the …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a prompt inspired by Google Maps. Today we are in a shopping district in Stockholm, Sweden. I have borrowed street names and partial store names from the internet and the photo respectively. In all other respects, this is a work of fiction. Thank you for the …
{This is in response to a photo prompt from Friday Fictioneers. The task is to write a hundred words, inspired by the picture. Thank you, for the prompt, and thanks for reading!} Tommy finally made the pilgrimage. Down the steep bank, under the bridge. He met his father, here, two years ago. For …
{This is a response to What Pegman Saw, a weekly photo prompt from Google Maps Street view. We are at the Grand Canyon today and here is my 150 words, which seems like a lot more, when typed into a mobile phone. Thanks for the prompt and for coming by!} Following a tortured, two-hour …
{This is in response to a photo prompt from Friday Fictioneers. The photo, above, reminded me of the many historical symbols, that have been absconded with, by the far, far right. I imagined a gathering of such like-minded individuals, suddenly coming upon the defacement of their own borrowed symbolism. All errors are my own. …
