Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #375,
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge and
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge,
31 words exactly using the three prompt words
of defray, brown and rigid. Here is my flash.
Mary went rigid and her soft brown eyes filled with tears when she saw the orthodontist’s bill. With no dental insurance, she’d have to find some way to defray the expense.
NAR©2024
31 Words
https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2024/08/03/weekend-writing-prompt-375-defray/
This is “Easy Money” by Billy Joel
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I always like the way you can combine challenges.
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Thanks so much, Sighs!
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and I wish we didn’t need these teeth to function …could save a fortune lol…
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Haha! We’d all be eating pablum!
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There is a Hindi saying, , गागर में सागर, which literally means an ocean in a lot, i.e. saying a lot in a few words. This post is one such example. Well done, Nancy!
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An ocean in a lot=pot.
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Thank you, KK. These short prompts are the most challenging but I enjoy a good challenge!
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There is one thing she could try – no, perhaps not!
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Hahaha! 😉
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😢 Fiction yet a medical necessity deemed as a luxury item is all too true.
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For sure! We went through it with our kids and now the grandkids!
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😔 Your writing entertains and addresses different aspects of living. 🙏🏻
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Thanks! Got to keep changing things up or we face the danger of getting stuck in a rut.
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🙌🏻
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Nicely done 🙂
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Thanks! These short ones are a real challenge. Having those other two words to play around with helped me out.
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I prefer the short ones! I am not a fan of merging challenges, though I have done so now and again, when I feel they can work. Some really go over the top mixing a whole bunch! Sometimes it works, others, not so much.
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Yeah, I hear ya. I’m dropping some groups I belong to. I have a medical thing going on and it’s difficult to keep up. I really don’t have the ambition to do the crazy long prompts like ‘6 sentence’ anymore although they’re only as long as I make them. They used to be fun but not so much now and groups can get cliquey. Something’s gotta go.
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I hope it’s not too serious. 💞
The important thing is to find what works for YOU. I can’t post every day (nor do I want to). And I participate or not, if I want to. I go with my own flow.
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Thanks! 🥰
My husband keeps telling me to let go of the “sense of responsibility” to my readers and that very few care about the work I put into my writing. He’s prob right. 😁
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He’s not wrong. I don’t doubt your readers don’t appreciate what you write (I definitely do) but I doubt they are saying “Oh, Nancy only posted six times today instead of ten!” 😉😂🤣
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😂😂😂
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😉😘
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eavesdropping 😬…we appreciate and enjoy and relate at times too, Nancy 🤍
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We like eavesdroppers!
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lol…I’m in the right place then 🙃
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😉
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Well, hi Destiny! Drop in anytime, girl! Always happy to hear from you 🩶
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lol… dropped right into urls chat🤭
thank you , Nancy…🤍
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Very good! That’s quite an exercise.
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Thanks, D. It’s a challenge!
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A whole story in so few words. Wonderful. So complete.
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Thank you, Selma. It’s a real test, isn’t it? Believe it or not, I typed out the words that were in my head and they came out to 31 on the button! 😲
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very neatly done ! 💜
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Thanks, girlfriend!
Those braces can bankrupt us! 😬
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LOL you bet ? 😂😂😂
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She didn’t know the cost up front?
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She did but something always happens to jack the price up.
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Well done. You conveyed a lot in only 31 words.
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Thanks, Fan.
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Oh no!
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Those orthodontic bills can really add up!
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Oh yes, I know.
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Me too!
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😅😱
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Dentist bills do put the bite on us.
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Haha! It’s true. I’m sure I put my dentist’s kids through college!
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