Month: September 2023

Old Photograph

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“The man demonstrates a blithe indifference to anyone else’s feelings, especially to mine,” Eileen told her best friend as they were having coffee at a Starbucks.

“So if that’s how you feel, dump him,” Cara said. “The supply of other fish in the sea is plentiful and you don’t need to burden yourself with a narcissist like him.”

“I’ve tried to put some width between us,” Eileen said, “but then he does something to reel me back in. And I becomes ensnared by him once again.”

“It sounds like you’re making excuses for him, Eileen,” Cara said. “You need to take responsibility for your relationships.”

Eileen reached into her handbag and pulled out an old photo.

She handed the bent, sepia toned photo to Cara and said, “This is an old photo of my grandmother and grandfather when my granny was about my age. Do you see how happy she looks. I’ve always dreamed about being as happy as she was when this photo was taken.”

“She’s beautiful and you look just like her. Listen, Eileen, you’re young, you’ve still got time to meet Mr. Right” Cara said. Then she smiled and pointed to a good looking guy who just ordered a pumpkin spice latte. “Like him, maybe.” Both young women started giggling.

Written for these daily prompts: Your Daily Word Prompt (blithe), My Vivid Blog (supply), The Daily Spur (width), Fandango’s One Word Challenge (ensnare), Word of the Day Challenge (responsibility), and Ragtag Daily Prompt (sepia).

Weekend Writing Prompt — My Girl

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She illuminates every room she enters
She is like the sun shining through a prism
Her smile brightens hearts
Filling them with warmth
Her inner beauty radiates with brilliance
Quite simply put, she is radiant

(Exactly 35 words)

Written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, where the challenge is “radiate” in exactly 35 words.

SoCS — It’s a Humdinger

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Hi everyone. Happy Hump day! Oh wait, today is Saturday, not Wednesday. Oh humbug, I made a mistake. But like every one of us, I’m only human. I make mistakes. It happens.

Anyway, my point is that I like to think that I’ve got a good sense of humor, although, according to my daughter, who suffers the humiliation of me telling what she calls my “dad jokes” in front of her friends, I’m a very unfunny human being.

Oh wait. I’ve got a good one for you. Why do scientists think humming birds hum? Because they can’t remember the words! Ha! Good one, huh?

Sure, some of my jokes and stories are real humdingers, but let me humbly tell you that I always thought that I could have been a humorist. You know, like Dave Barry, for example. But that would require work, and I’m retired.

(I can visualize my daughter rolling her eyes if she were reading this. But I needn’t worry. She never reads my blog.)

Perhaps, at the end of the day, humanity is better off if I stop clowning around, and bring this Stream of Consciousness Saturday post to a close. In case you haven’t figured out our assignment for today’s SoCS, it is to find a word that starts with “hum” or use the word “hum” itself.

Image credit: Bing Image Creator.

FOWC with Fandango — Ensnare

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FOWC

Welcome 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 “ensnare.”

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. Show them some love.

MLMM Friday Faithfuls — Entropy

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Jim Adams instructed us to respond to this Friday Faithfuls challenge by writing anything about entropy, heat, energy, chaos, or thermodynamics. I don’t know anything about any of that, but I liked the image Jim used and decided to challenge myself using today’s daily word prompts built around a milkman and one definition of entropy as “a measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system.” I also used the Bing Image Creator to create this image below. So here’s my story.

As he always did, the milkman dutifully carried on his rounds, encouraged by the light from the large moon shining down and breaking through the darkness of that cold winter’s morning.

A perfectionist in the truest sense of the word, the milkman’s response to the pure morning air was delight that, in the face of entropy that threatened to disrupt the order of things in the universe, he could count on his role, not only delivering bottles of milk to his customers, but bringing a bit of order and symmetry to a world that seemed on the threshold of chaos.

Written for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Faithfuls and these daily word prompts: Word of the Day Challenge (milkman), Ragtag Daily Prompt (moon), The Daily Spur (winter), My Vivid Blog (perfectionist), Fandango’s One Word Challenge (pure), and Your Daily Word Prompt (response).