A wall of black, oozy, Missouri River mud looms in front of me,
sticky, impossible to even walk through.
When I push, it gives only a little.
Then it creeps into my nostrils, suffocating.
I back off, walk this way and that way, trying to find an entrance.
None!
I push again; the mud engulfs.
So I back off, play it safe, read a book, play the piano,
go boutique shopping, sing, hike, brush the horses.
I walk back; the mud wall looms still.
I write up to the mud wall.
It starts to ooze onto the paper, into my brain.
writingontherim 
If you can’t go under, over, or around, I hope you go through. And I hope you send us something for Writer Advice’s 7th Flash Prose Contest. Details at http://www.writeradvice.com
Lynn
I LOVE it. So fantastic. I get a cold, slimy feeling from the mud, which is a lot like writer’s block right? Ha ha ha…You’ve told a wonderful adventure of the mind. My absolute favorite is the very last line. 🙂
Our conversations have reminded me that I wrote a (very) short story about this very subject called “The Boulevard”. I’ll forward you the link…
Thanks for sharing this!!!
Please do. I am always interested in struggles to be better, etc. One of the reasons that I started my blog was to make myself write. I take a class to make me write and they tell me I am good and I enter a contest and am a finalist and I quit writing. I promised myself I would post at least once a week, preferable twice. And that it is ok if one is about food because I fix unusual meals and people always want to know how and why and what. Your blog is so sophisticated; I love it. Why did you start your blog initially?
I posted this in reply on my page as well….here’s the link;
http://mortondesignworks.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/the-boulevard-short-story/
Thanks for your comments on my blog. My blog was originally my website that I had built myself through another site but it is so much easier to update more frequently when it is a blog. I miss not having my artwork or photography all in one place (don’t think I’ll be putting those up on WordPress) but overall it is easier. I actually started “blogging” on Myspace a long time ago just as a way to practice writing.