It’s the beginning of the end of autumn and winter is just around the corner – it’s also Monday and, at the dVerse Poets Pub, it’s time to write Prosery, the very short piece of prose that tells a story with a beginning, a middle and an end, in any genre of your choice. It’s flash fiction, with a limit of 144 words and an additional challenge is to hit 144 exactly. The special thing about Prosery is that we give you a complete line or two from a poem, which must be included somewhere in your story, within the 144-word limit.

As the month has just begun, I thought I’d look at November poems, and found this one by Rita Dove called ‘November for Beginners’.  It caught my attention because she wrote it in November 1981, the month of my daughter’s first birthday. It’s a wonderful poem, with so many outstanding lines to choose from.

I particularly like the opening of this poem: ‘Snow would be the easy way out’, like a challenge to this notoriously difficult month, which is why I chose it.

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I would like you to write a story that includes the following line(s) from that poem: 

‘Snow would be the easy
way out’

You can read the complete poem here.

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Here’s how to take part in Prosery:

–   Write a piece of flash fiction of up to or exactly 144 words, including the given line in the order in which it has been given. You may add or change punctuation, but you may not add words in between the given ones.
–   Post your Prosery on your blog and link back to this post.
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