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Think Spin

 Lauren Salkin ― http://www.thinkspin.com

Warning: Mentally defective broad with attitude. A sassy spin on culture, life and whatever drops into my head.

Avg. Rating: 4.4 out of 5.0 ∙ 60 Reviews ∙ 730 Followers

Listed: Jul 27, 2010

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Food, You Are Dead to Me!

Food, You Are Dead to Me!

Think Spin ― Because I can’t taste you anymore. At least, not in the way I used to. Several months ago, I noticed that trusted flavors lacked their usual zest. Garlic, yogurt, onions…all tasted bland. Granted, I’ve never been much of a...

Tags: Humor, Random Thoughts, Brain, Taste

Lauren Salkin ― 4 days ago

The Internet ADHD Experiment

The Internet ADHD Experiment

Think Spin ― Scientists using the focally-challenged as lab rats. The Internet is more addictive than crack because it’s as pervasive as air. Earlier today, the Fantasy News Network (FNN) uncovered a massive secret program in which ADHD individuals are...

Tags: Satire, ADHD, Internet

Lauren Salkin ― 2 weeks 1 day ago

Broken News in Boston!

Broken News in Boston!

Think Spin ― CNN, the Crappy News Network Hi, this is Blitz Geezer in Boston along with John Bland, Lance Fancy Pants and Tapioca Pudding. ALL THE NEWS BOBBLEHEADS NOD INDEFINITELY. BLITZ GEEZER Since we don’t have anything new to report, ...

Tags: Satire, Boston Marathon Bombing, CNN, Reporting, Twitter

Lauren Salkin ― 3 weeks 4 days ago

The Children of Violence, a Generation of Lost Innocence

The Children of Violence, a Generation of Lost Innocence

Think Spin ― As a child in the sixties, my innocence and the innocence of the nation, was shattered by three assassinations, one, years before the others, the others, just several months apart. My generation could no longer hope for the clichéd, happy...

Tags: Commentary, Random Thoughts, Boston Marathon

Lauren Salkin ― 4 weeks 2 days ago

Blankety-blank page, the bleeping white brain suck

Blankety-blank page, the bleeping white brain suck

Think Spin ― Thought I’d never see you again. But here you are, staring at me like a white light at the end of an airport ramp crammed with waitlisted souls. God, you are not. If I were to compare you to an omnipotent being, it would be the devil. You...

Tags: Humor, Writer's Block, Blankety Blank, Writer's Block

Lauren Salkin ― 5 weeks ago

River Testament

River Testament

Think Spin ― Swiftly down the river, a canoe rides the current, crashing into rocks and sediment, swaying with each bump of cascading water. Shoes and other evidence of human residue slosh back and forth inside the hull. Words scribbled on an envelope, stuffed...

Tags: Five Sentence Fiction

Lauren Salkin ― 5 weeks 3 days ago

If I Could See with My Nose

If I Could See with My Nose

Think Spin ― My dog Jenny smells coyotes and cats with her superpower nose that can detect animal life through closed windows. It amazes me what she can see with her nose. I stand at the window staring at trees and grass, and bits of sagging sky through the...

Tags: Random Thoughts, Dog, Nose

Lauren Salkin ― 6 weeks 3 days ago

The Hail Mary Hissy Fit

The Hail Mary Hissy Fit

Think Spin ― Sometimes you’ve got to vent, then pray it saves your head. Let it go! Let it rip! Let it ride on black while you’re blue. If it only stopped at red. Instead, my unhinged roulette spins off course into a storm, Down a ravine I...

Tags: Humor, Rant, Hail Mary, Hissy Fit

Lauren Salkin ― 7 weeks 5 days ago

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

Think Spin ― One forkful then another, she slipped the succulent oozing chocolate past parting lips, licking them clean, as luscious dark decadence painted her tongue. More, she wanted more chunks of rich cathartic bliss to scoop then swallow, lifting, then...

Tags: Five Sentence Fiction, Humor, Lillie McFerrin

Lauren Salkin ― 8 weeks 5 days ago

Ethereal Whispers

Ethereal Whispers

Think Spin ― A sound flutters around me in a distant sort of way, a voice as ethereal as a whisper, speaks my name, “Sherri, Sherri.” Strange…I’m the only one here in the dwindling afternoon, waiting for darkness to swallow...

Tags: Five Sentence Fiction, Writing, Lillie McFerrin

Lauren Salkin ― 10 weeks 2 days ago

Empty Ester, An Accident in Progress

Empty Ester, An Accident in Progress

Think Spin ― Empty Ester lost her head, once a prominent fixture on her shoulders, air lingers there instead. She blamed the loss on her stubborn boss who demanded too much of her vapid thoughts. “Find me the ‘Nail’ file,” he had said ...

Tags: Five Sentence Fiction, Humor, Empty, Five Sentence Writing Prompt

Lauren Salkin ― 11 weeks ago

The Faraway Land of Abandoned Things

The Faraway Land of Abandoned Things

Think Spin ― On the side of the road, laces tattered, leather faded, a shoe soaks up the late day sun. Once a vessel for a seafaring man, its destiny determined by a fickle sea in a violent sway or lurch of a boat, both succumbed to the ravages of a sudden ...

Tags: Five Sentence Fiction, Five Sentence Writing Prompt

Lauren Salkin ― 11 weeks 3 days ago

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