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All About That Bass

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Darleen was self-conscious about her weight. She was pretty, but she knew she was on the plump side. She used to joke that she just had curves in all the right places.

She tried to make up for her weight insecurities by being a party girl and a rather rambunctious one at that.

But then she heard something at one of the parties that changed her life, changed her attitude, and made her feel good about herself. It was like she had an epiphany, as if she were emerging from a thick mist and was seeing things with a new sense of clarity.

She heard a song by Meghan Trainor called “All About That Bass.”

Written for these daily prompts: Your Daily Word Prompt (plump), Fandango’s One Word Challenge (party), My Vivid Blog (rambunctious), The Daily Spur (mist), and Ragtag Daily Prompt (clarity). Image credit: Bing Image Creator.

Put a Muzzle on Him

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It’s political claptrap, a bunch of bluster from a cold-blooded, reptile-like excuse for a human being. There’s no benefit to listening to the flapdoodle that oozes from his pores and the only deterrent from his careless and even dangerous, nonsensical rantings is to put a muzzle on him just as you would on any mad dog. If only the media or the courts would do so.

Written for these daily prompts: Your Daily Word Prompt (bluster), The Daily Spur (reptile), Fandango’s One Word Challenge (benefit), Ragtag Daily Prompt (flapdoodle), Word of the Day Challenge (deterrent), and My Vivid Blog (careless).

A Rash Course

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“She must be trying to trigger me,” James said. “I ask you, why would she embark on such a rash course, filing for divorce, knowing the intensity of my feelings for her? Does she think she’s some kind of royalty or something? You’re her pal, her crony, Kate. You must know something.”

Kate sighed. “James, I’m not sure how to tell you this,” she said, “but she and I are more than pals, more than cronies. A lot more.”

Written for these daily prompts: Ragtag Daily Prompt (trigger), My Vivid Blog (ask), Fandango’s One Word Challenge (embark), Word of the Day Challenge (intensity), The Daily Spur (royalty), Your Daily Word Prompt, and (crony).

Long Overdue

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He’s a charlatan, a cockalorum to be sure.

I do not exaggerate when I say that his end is long overdue.

Only those who are completely moonstruck by his lunacy would say it’s not time to remove him from the political rotation.

Written for these daily prompts from yesterday: Your Daily Word Prompt (charlatan), Word of the Day Challenge (cockalorum), The Daily Spur (exaggerate), Ragtag Daily Prompt (overdue), Fandango’s One Word Challenge (moonstruck), and My Vivid Blog (rotation). Image credit: John Taggart / Bloomberg via Getty Images file.

Thursday Inspiration — Share The Bench

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For this week’s Thursday Inspiration prompt, Jim Adams has asked us to respond to this challenge by either using the word listen, or going with the above picture, or by means of the song “How Many More Times,” or by going with another song by Led Zeppelin, or with anything else that we think fits.

Today I’m bypassing any music and am going with the prompt word, “listen,” the photo above, and today’s six daily prompt words to weave it all into one, um, compelling (?) tale. Are you ready?

“Would you mind sharing this bench with me?” the man asked the young woman as he sat down on the bench next to her. She opened her eyes, looked over at him, and smiled. Then she closed her eyes and continued to listen through her headphones to whatever she was listening to before he sat down.

“I’ll only be here for a few minutes. I’ve got to go to the radiology department at the hospital for an X-ray,” he explained. “Nothing serious, I hope. Nevertheless, I’m nervous.” The young woman, eyes still closed and engaged with whatever she was listening to through her headphones, didn’t respond.

The man reached over and pulled one of the headphone pieces up off her ear and repeated what he said about being nervous about his upcoming X-ray.

She looked at him and said, “Please stop. You can sit here on the bench for as long as you want, I don’t care why you’re here. I just want to listen to my music.”

“I just want to listen to my music,” the man said, mimicking the way the young woman said it. “Sheesh, you are such a bitch.”

Now the young woman was pissed. “How much have you had to drink? Are you drunk or on drugs? Can’t you see that I just want to be left alone with my music?”

“I’ll have you know, you insolent young lady,” the man said, “alcohol has been absent from my system for more than a year, so it’s simply not feasible for me to be drunk.”

“Well, why don’t you go away and find someplace else to wait for your X-rays, if that’s what you’re really doing,” the woman said, “because if you continue to bother me, I’m going to call the police and have them charge you with disturbing my peace.”

The man stood up and walked away. He saw another bench on the other side of the park where a young woman was sitting by herself reading a book. “Would you mind sharing this bench with me?” the man asked the young woman as he sat down on the bench.

These daily prompt were used in this story: The Daily Spur (X-ray), My Vivid Blog (stop), Word of the Day Challenge (drink), Ragtag Daily Prompt (absence), Your Daily Word Prompt (feasible), and Fandango’s One Word Challenge (charge).