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FOWC with Fandango — Panacea

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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 “panacea.”

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.

Weekend Writing Prompt — if Only

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If only it came in a bottle, an elixir to address all of life’s complexities. A simple remedy for all that troubles us. A magic fix to make all our difficulties fade.

But no universal balm, no panacea exists that can fix it all.

(Exactly 44 words)

Written for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, where the prompt is “panacea” in exactly 44 words.

Fandango’s Flashback Friday — November 6

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Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.

How about you? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Friday Flashback post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.

If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on this day (the 6th) of any month within the past year and link to that post in a comment.

This was originally posted on this blog on November 6, 2017.

Wishful Thinking

img_0054“Wishful thinking is not the answer,” Britney said to her husband.

“I didn’t mean just wishful thinking,” Ethan said. “I’m merely saying that we need to maintain a positive attitude.”

“Wishful thinking, positive attitude,” Britney said. Neither is the panacea you think it is.”

“Well, maybe we should try praying. I don’t know what else we can do,” Ethan said. “We’ve been going at this for the past 18 months and still nothing.”

“Praying? Really?” Britney laughed sarcastically. “Like that works.”

“So what do you suggest?” Ethan asked.

“My friend Amanda and her husband were having trouble conceiving and they went to see a fertility specialist,” Britney said. “They both got tested and it turned out that his sperm count was low, so the doctor started giving him testosterone treatments and within six months she was pregnant.”

“Oh,” Ethan said. “So you think it’s my fault. You think I’m shooting blanks, is that it?”

“We don’t know if it’s your fault or my fault,” Britney said. “Maybe there’s nothing physically wrong with either of us. But it can’t hurt to get a professional’s opinion.”

“Fine,” Ethan acquiesced. And then with a wicked smile, he reached out, grabbed his wife, and said, “In the meantime, though, let’s keep trying. Making love with you is my own, personal panacea.”

Written for today’s one-word prompt, “panacea.”

Wishful Thinking

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“Wishful thinking is not the answer,” Britney said to her husband.

“I didn’t mean just wishful thinking,” Ethan said. “I’m merely saying that we need to maintain a positive attitude.”

“Wishful thinking, positive attitude,” Britney said. Neither is the panacea you think it is.”

“Well, maybe we should try praying. I don’t know what else we can do,” Ethan said. “We’ve been going at this for the past 18 months and still nothing.”

“Praying? Really?” Britney laughed sarcastically. “Like that works.”

“So what do you suggest?” Ethan asked.

“My friend Amanda and her husband were having trouble conceiving and they went to see a fertility specialist,” Britney said. “They both got tested and it turned out that his sperm count was low, so the doctor started giving him testosterone treatments and within six months she was pregnant.”

“Oh,” Ethan said. “So you think it’s my fault. You think I’m shooting blanks, is that it?”

“We don’t know if it’s your fault or my fault,” Britney said. “Maybe there’s nothing physically wrong with either of us. But it can’t hurt to get a professional’s opinion.”

“Fine,” Ethan acquiesced. And then with a wicked smile, he reached out, grabbed his wife, and said, “In the meantime, though, let’s keep trying. Making love with you is my own, personal panacea.”

Written for today’s one-word prompt, “panacea.”