Challenge
Prose Challenge of the Week:
Write a piece of poetry or prose following on from this sentence: “the clock struck midnight”
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The clock struck midnight, beating her strapless
The clock struck midnight,
beating her strapless,
toppling her floorward.
There, de-stooled and de-pilsnered,
stilettos askew,
she bleated karaoke
while that brute hovered smirking,
jaundiced and sour,
browning his khakis,
hacking his eulogy.
She, crumpled and angular,
spittle bejeweled,
thinks, I’m perishing anew,
hapless but christened,
my year, jinxed with bounty.
Turning,
knuckling curses,
the bloated sot trundled doorward,
out-turning his pockets,
releasing his vowels,
in those final seconds,
offloading his ballast.