Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #392
incorporating the word “swarm” in a composition of 10 words.
Also for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts – The One Day
Prompt (8). In exactly 10 words, this is my flash.
In one day, the swarm devoured the entire cotton crop.
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10 Words
This is “Boll Weevil Song” by Tex Ritter
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That certainly is devastation! 😟 So much can be said in one line. Well done, Nancy. 👍🏻 My cousin and I passed cotton fields today. I will never tire of that sight.
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That’s what I call perfect timing, Michele! What a glorious sight that must have been. Thanks for sharing your lovely thoughts! 😊
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Love when that happens! A glorious sight, yes! A treat to read your posts. Thank you, Nancy. 😊
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Uh oh!
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You can say that again!
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A cotton farmer’s nightmare told in a perfect ten words.
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Thank you, darlin’! Guess I learned somethin’ from that year I spent down in Alabamy! 🪲
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Y’all spent a year in Alabamy? Wow… lotsa stuff happens down there that don’t up here!
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No, not really. Just playing with ya.
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Somehow I knew that… brat!
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😁
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I used to teach Sunday school and I thoroughly enjoyed swatting up on the stories to get my facts straight before Sunday arrived!
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New term for me, swatting up. I had an idea what it meant from the rest of your sentence but I looked it up anyway. I also taught Sunday School, the very young children. The little ones are always so in awe of their Bible stories! 😊
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You may have noticed I spelt swotting wrong. I only noticed just now, I must have had fly swatting in my head! 🪰🪰🪰
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I still figured it out!
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I’m sorry for the earlier joke. The plague reminded me of the Ten Plagues of Egypt, especially the governor’s mention. Thank you for sharing this with our One Day prompt, Nancy. 🙂
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Sue, I just got back home from some errands and I didn’t even see your earlier comment. No need to apologize; I thought the same think about the plagues in Egypt. I remember learning about them in Sunday School and then watching the Ten Commandments movie really brought it home. Just the thought of plagues of insects gets my skin crawling! 🪲
I enjoy these prompts very much and this week’s one day worked exceptionally well with my mini-story., I think Thanks, Sue!
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Eeeek! (Nomnomnom)
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Freaky looking thing, right?!?
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oops…but it’s the cycle right… 😬
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Yes! I do believe one of our states actually was able to get rid of the boll weevil …. but don’t quote me. LOL!!
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Was the state called Egypt, and the governor called Pharaoh?🤣
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😂 Close enough! I just Googled this; apparently several states were able to eradicate the boll weevil. Such a creepy looking thing! 😳
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😱
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They’re nasty looking, aren’t they?!
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Oh no.
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Yes! The boll weevil is a nasty critter!!
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😅😅
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Way to hit a double with this Nancy
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Thanks, Dawg!! You made my day! Woof!!
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Very relatable, Nancy … in Wimmera region, north-west from here, the farmer’s crops are prone to devastation by masses of locust … and then once every decade they’ll be hit by a horrifying mice plague ….
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It’s almost biblical, isn’t it, dear Ivor?! 🪲
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Nature strikes back 😊🌏
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