Written for Friday Fictioneers where Rochelle
encourages us to get creative in 100 words or less
using the photo below for inspiration. Here’s my story.
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Triplet bumblebees Bizz, Bozz, and Buzz loved to bob from plant to flower to vine in the neighborhood alley. It was so bucolic, even the occasional visitor didn’t bother them.
Being such busy bees, they barely noticed the giant structure by the entrance.
“What’s that thing?” they asked in unison.
“Keep back! It’s a trap” warned Groucho the Grasshopper. “People say bad ideas are inside, dangerous goings-on about a Very Hungry Caterpillar, an Ant Bully and Bug Muldoon.”
The terrified triplets trembled, their little knees knocking.
“Bugger off now, boys! You don’t wanna be here when the soldier bees arrive!”
NAR©2024
100 Words
This is “Sons of 1984” by Todd Rundgren
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Opens the imagination and begs conversations. I love it. All the characters bring joy to the reading experience. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks so much, Selma. This is a fun writing group. 🐝
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Insect wars. Just love it.
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Thanks, Patrick!
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Perhaps they’ll buzz back and find the books on hive minds
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As long as they all agree…..
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So many messages in this lovely and fun tale, Nancy! Very nicely done! Bzzz Bzzz Bzzz!
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So glad you enjoyed it, Dale! It’s great fun finding those hidden messages, don’t you think?
“Bombo” is “bumblebee” in Italian! 🐝
Bzzz!
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Absolutely.
Ah hah! I am not surprised.
And I love watching that video. It really shows perfectly how a piece is played. I am in awe. My friend, who is disgustingly talented in so many things, has started taking piano lessons (we are 60). She had taken lessons some 50 years back so she had some knowledge but I am at level zero. Not that I have, nor desire, a piano. 🙂
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That’s very cool for your friend to be taking up piano. I started lessons at age 7; that lasted about 8 years and I got pretty good at the piano but didn’t play much after that. I took it up again about 20 years ago, and organ, too, but after my knee replacement in 2011 I couldn’t move my legs fast enough to play the organ pedals. I stopped playing organ but still play the piano occasionally. I hope to teach Colette.
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It is. She took up pottery, too. You should see the beautiful pieces she makes. And she’s a wonderful photographer. Some just have that artistic gene.
I remember going to another friend’s house and the father insisted they all learn an instrument (he, by the way, plays nothing!). Mom already played piano so they took up: Saxophone, clarinet, flute and violin… I was always in awe of that.
How lovely to be taught by Nonna!
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😊
No sticky jelly fingerprints on my piano or it’s curtains! 😂
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I should hope not! First lesson is respect the instrument! And Nonna (goes without saying)…
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Busy bees, little libraries, and cherished children’s titles, what’s not to love here! 😊 A fun read, thank you Nancy! 📚
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I’ll gladly accept that thank you and leave you one of my own! Looking forward to reading this to my granddaughter. 🐝
Thanks, Michele! 😊
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You’re welcome! Will be a sweet read and great conversation starter about the positive influence of books and how some disagree, if she is old enough for that. Have fun! 😊
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Groucho the grasshopper should mind his own bees knees
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Ahaha! Dees ees funny beesness!!
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I love this! And so will Colette!
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Oh, yes! That she will! Thanks, my friend! 🐝
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Dear Nancy,
That’s a lot of knees to be knockin’. 😉 Cute story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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18 to be exact; they made quite a rumble.
Thanks, Rochelle! 🐝
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poor terrified guys…😬
rightfully so…maybe lol…
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Indeed, they were terrified. Groucho’s warning shook their little world..
Thanks, Destiny 🐝
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aaaw … lol…
my pleasure 🤍
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Books sometimes can be radically transformative, so the grasshopper was not that wrong. Delightful story!
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True. The grasshopper has an old soul; he understands.
Thank you, Joy. 🐝
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A delightful little story!
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Thank you, Sweets. 🐝
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