The Carnal Uncanny: The Body and Beyond (Part 2)

a cliche-busting prompt

PROMPT

Take a cliché like “sweet tooth,” and turn it into its opposite like “evil tooth that makes me eat little girls” as poet Russell Edson does (below).  Then use a second cliché and make it literal as in a girl literally made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.”

SWEET TOOTH

BY: RUSSELL EDSON

A little girl made of sugar and spice and everything nic…