Bread

Workshop writers are often challenged to write a short piece on a prompt while in session.

They are given 7-10 minutes to write, then share their work with each other.

During a recent session, the prompt was “bread.” Though sometimes similar, no two pieces are the same.

Here are three of the impromptu works:

Bread

By Venus Bratsveen

Bread, bread

It’s in my head

My tummy calls

To line its walls

With beautiful, yummy bread.

Bread, scratch, dough, moolah, the Benjamins, green backs, cash not coin, tender, bucks.

It’s all the same to me.

A means to an end.

Bread and Roses

By Lisa Conger

Bread and...