Unbox Your Words 7a April 2025

A writing prompt, Julie Andrews, Eleanor Rigby, Miss Marple and more...

Hello, all!

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And now for April’s writing prompt/exercise. I had a plan for what we were going to do this month, but then I kept running into amazing pieces that seemed to fit a different theme - and so I am going with what the universe is suggesting and saving my other idea for later. What is it the universe kept sending my way? Newly-published stories, poems and hybrid pieces that take inspiration from existing people - where by “existing” I mean either well-known real people or fictional characters from others’ works (or in one case, both) - in all sorts of different and quite magical ways which I really loved.