We can no longer remain silent!
Written for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt, where the word is “silent.”
#6WSP — Before it’s Too Late
Day: September 4, 2021
Weekend Writing Prompt — Newspaper
We are old school. We subscribe to our local, daily newspaper. My wife and I enjoy reading the physical paper while having our first cups of coffee in the morning.
I start with the sports section, followed by the business section. Then local news, national news, and opinion page. My wife enjoys the daily crosswords, sudoku, and Jumble.
Our mornings simply wouldn’t be complete without our daily newspaper.
(Exactly 68 words)
Written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, where the word is “newspaper.”
Government Overreach Hypocrisy
On Wednesday, after deliberate inaction on the part of the conservative U.S. Supreme Court, the “heartbeat bill” took effect in the state of Texas. It bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Considering that most women don’t learn that they’re pregnant until just around that time, abortion has essentially just been outlawed in Texas.
And, of course, other Republican-led states are now falling all over themselves to enact restrictive abortion laws patterned after the Texas law.
I find it ironic that Republican law makers in Texas (and in other “red states”) decry government overreach when it comes to “personal liberties” such as mask mandates, COVID vaccinations, common sense gun laws, and federal oversight on virtual anything, but they’re quite comfortable with government overreach when it comes to a woman’s uterus and interfering with her ability to make sensitive reproductive health decisions privately with her medical provider.
SoCS — Pin
“I’ll be damned if I’m going to let you pin that on me?” Hal said.
“Okay, Hal,” the detective said, “who, then, should I pin it on? The donkey?”
“Very funny, detective. Look, I ain’t no big time crime kingpin. I’m just small potatoes and I don’t care who you pin it on,” Hal said, “but I didn’t steal that lady’s pin. In fact, at the time that pin was allegedly stolen, I was down at the Ten Pin Bowling Alley with my buddies.”
“All right, Hal,” the detective said. “I’ll check out your alibi. In the meantime, sit here and stick a pin in it until I get back.”
“Wait detective,” Hal said. “Can you get me a safety pin? I seemed to have lost a button on my shirt sleeve.”
“I can’t give you anything sharp like a pin while you wait here by yourself,” the detective said. “Just roll up your sleeve. You’ll be fine.”
Written for Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt. This week we are asked to use the word “pin” in our responses.
Update: After I wrote this silly post, I remembered that I, like so many adolescent boys, had pinned this classic Farah Fawcett poster on my wall above my bed.
FOWC with Fandango — Garner
Welcome to September 4, 2021 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).
Today’s word is “garner.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.
This, That, and the Other 