From the Splinters of Madness

Daily writing prompt
If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

DAILY PROMPT RESPONSE

When the inkwell weeps, I howl.

A writer trapped inside the mind of a psychopath — but not a complete monster. He lets me out sometimes, just long enough to tickle the page, to scrape a little beauty from the wreckage. I don’t write for peace. I write for the rattle of the cage, for the bleed of ink and bone, for the grin that comes before the bite.

I’m Mangus Khan. I write the Memoirs of Madness.

ahh, come again?

If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

I wasn’t exactly sure what taglines meant. I looked it up and discovered it means catchphrase or slogan. Huh, ain’t that something.

So I asked a few friends what they would consider to be my catchphrase. Of course, when you involve humans everything becomes more complicated than it needs to be. After, listening to them chuckle to countless number of catchphrases I subject to blurt out at any moment. I decided I needed to change the question.

If you were eulogizing me, what phrase could you say that everyone would recognize?

Instantly, everyone I asked this question had the same answer. This confused me, surely I figured I would a bit of variety, right? Nope, they had the same answer. They also said it wasn’t so much what I had to say, but how I said it. It was even suggested that I write out my facial expressions so people could get a visual on the effects.

the number friend response is …

Kick Rocks!

I considered their response and asked, “Ahh, come again?”