Splinters for October 2020

This month's prompts focus on color and synesthesia.

BURNT UMBER

Raw umber lurks in the alley depths, in the broken places of tenement streets…

THERE IS ALWAYS A LOCKED DOOR

What was on the other side, could someone or something be behind the door?

THE FULLNESS, OR NOT, OF CERTAIN WORDS

...words like these are referred to as “unpaired” or called nonce words.

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