Word for Word: Maize

S. E. Wigget
2 min readJan 13, 2022

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: maize.

The cats had distracted me while I was putting away the groceries. Once they were gamboling in the backyard, I returned to the kitchen. To my astonishment…

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S. E. Wigget

Outside Medium, I mostly write fiction, especially paranormal and historical fantasy, under either S. E. Wigget or Susan E. Wigget. WhimsicalWords.Substack.com