The Wordsmith's Forge

This poem is spillover from the March 7, 2017 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from chanter_greenie. It also fills the "loneliness" square in my 8-1-17 card for the Survival Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains some touchy topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It has misery, loneliness, low mood, abandonment issues, alienation from hometown, serious prejudice against soups, and other challenges. Also, the positive interactions and upstanding shown provide a little lift, but not an actual happy ending. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before moving onward.

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Six ways that city life is secretly killing you. 

 dialecticdreamer is hosting Magpie Monday today with a theme of "cottoncandy fluff."  Leave prompts, get ficlets.  Extend your wordcount by boosting the signal, donating (everything goes toward medical expenses), or if you're a new prompter.

This poem is from the March 7, 2017 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from dialecticdreamer, technoshaman, callibr8, alatefeline, redsixwing, alexseanchai, and librarygeek. It also fills the "why" square in my 12-1-16 card for the iPod Shuffle Music Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by technoshaman. It belongs to the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem contains some intense topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It features teen shenanigans, adult bullying of an innocent teen, abuse of authority, culpable bigotry, undermining the fire department's professional objectives, despair, outrage, frustration over lack of superpower awareness, and other angst. However, two adults stick up for the targeted teen. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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