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FOWC with Fandango — Pizza

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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 “pizza.”

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.

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FFfPP — Hey, Bitch!

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“Hey, bitch, get your hands off of my pizza,” Jason yelled.

“But you said we could share,” Anita said, letting go of the slice she picked up.

“No I didn’t,” Jason corrected Anita. “I said if you ordered a pizza we could share each other’s pizzas. But you chose to order rabbit food instead. You know I don’t eat salads. So you go ahead and enjoy your salad and keep your grubby paws off my pizza.”

“Just give my salad a try, Jason,” Anita said. “It’s really quite tasty and, best of all, it’s healthy. It’s actually good for you.”

“I’ll tell you what, Anita,” Jason said. “If you want to have some of my pizza, go ahead and pull off those green, leaf-like things. I don’t know what they are. Maybe spinach or arugula or some other type of rabbit food. I don’t like that shit. But as to the rest of my pizza, that’s off limits to you.”

“You are one selfish bastard, Jason,” Anita said.

“Yeah, well you knew that when you opted for a salad instead of a pizza. You made your bed, now you gotta sleep in it.”

“I’m not sure that particular metaphor applies here,” Anita said, “but fine, you can eat the whole damn pizza by yourself. But you’re getting to the age that you should consider adding more greens to your diet.”

“Maybe in my next life,” Jason said, picking up a slice of his pizza and taking a big bite.

Written for the Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner prompt from Roger Shipp. Photo credit: Christian Mackie on Unsplash.

E.M.’s Sunday Ramble Prompt — This or That?

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It’s time once again for E.M. Kingston’s The Sunday Ramble. Her prompt is based upon a certain topic about which she asks five questions. We are invited to ramble on about that topic however we wish. Today’s topic is “Would You Rather?”

1. Would you rather be the hero that saved the girl or the villain that took over the world?

People always tell me that I’m a good person, a nice guy. So I think, for a change, it’s time for me to be a badass. I’m going with the villain who takes over the world.

2. Would you rather have a skin that changes color based on your emotions or tattoos that appear all over your body whenever you are dishonest?

How about “c. none of the above”?

3. Would you rather have unlimited pizza for life or unlimited tacos for life?

Pizza for sure.

4. Would you rather own a key that can open any door for you or be able to visit any place you want?

Unless you’re talking metaphorically about keys and doors, I’m going with being able to visit any place I want.

5. Would you rather wake up in a dark forest or wake up on a deserted beach?

Unless it’s a nude beach, I choose a dark forest.

5 Things — Italian Foods

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It’s been a while since I last participated in one of Dr. Tanya’s 5 Things prompts. In this edition, she asks us to list our five favorite Italian dishes.

Veal Marsala — A classic Italian dish made with thinly sliced veal scaloppine prepared in a Marsala reduction sauce with sliced mushrooms. Mmm.

Linguine with white wine clam sauce — Do I need to say more?

Pizza — …with you favorite toppings. Mine are pepperoni and mushrooms or barbecue chicken.

Lasagna — I like it with beef.

Tiramisu — There’s no better way to finish off a nice Italian meal than with a piece of tiramisu.

Share Your World — Square Boxes, Boots, and Braces

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Share Your WorldIt’s Monday and that means it’s time for Melanie’s Share Your World prompt. So let’s get to it.

On a scale of 1-10, how strict were your parents?

I don’t know how I’d rate my parents in relation to other kids’ parents, but I was the baby of the family and the only boy, and I got away with a lot of shit.

What wastes the most time in your day to day life?

My wife would say blogging, but she spends as much time on Twitter as I do on WordPress, so I’d say she wastes more time than I do.

Do they bury people with their braces on?

Melanie explains that braces, for the purpose of this question, are those metal bits they put on people to straighten their teeth.

The old saying goes, they bury cowboys with their boots on. But braces? This question kind of makes me sad because most people who have braces on their teeth are teenagers, and if we’re talking about burying them with their braces on, we’re talking about the deaths of fairly young people.

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

Because you can’t fit a square peg in a round hole? Or vice versa?