#lydiaprompt

[chucklingpecan]

The story goes that Cleopatra

put bees into a gourd

and thus invented

the vibrator

It’s established that

she buzzed often

no matter the device

[chucklingpecan]

bad passenger

He got into the passenger side and she noticed he had five hands. It was one too many. She took the next curve at a recklessly high speed, and reaching over him, opened his door. He shoved his fifth hand between her legs, and with a fierce grip saved himself.

[chucklingpecan]

There was unexpectedly a creature with wings, nearly human. At bedtime, lashed to the bed frame, it was subjected to savage matings with mortal men. This sounds like a fable but I swear to the gods it is true.

[diananysus]

soaked

Fresh pine tainted from the elements gave me a sad feeling as my feet swam in the wet grass.

My hands clumsily collecting what was not spoiled from the storm. Some were bruised and I tasted the bitterness undercutting what was once sweet, and I am not much different.

Fresh pine darkened, it is weak and waterlogged, but I pick up the pieces and pray for splinters to come loose into my fingertips.

That will teach the rain to not fall so hard on my already drenched heart.

It is a sadness enough to lure tears as I simply stop and survey all that has been lost.

And I feel that I am also bruised,                   that I am also lost, and hoping I will not be overlooked by the right pair of hands.

[chucklingpecan]

The soggy weight of apples topples trees

Tuck them into crates of polished bark and turn them into pies

[chucklingpecan]

You see a crate full of rain wrinkled apples

I see a feast of gargantuan prunes

[chucklingpecan]

Virtuous apples restrained in their crates blush provocatively in the rain

[chucklingpecan]

The Serpent's apples bobbing in their boxes as the deluge sinks the Ark