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Landslide

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Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly 41
words using the prompt word ‘gooseberry’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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The gooseberry had been elected mayor by a landslide. He had excellent policies, a firm handshake, and an honest face. Nobody questioned it. The voters weren’t idiots; they all knew he’d do a far better job than that meathead, Mayor McCheese.

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41 Words

This is “Mayor McCheese” by Fat Cats

Weekend Writing Prompt #460 – Gooseberry

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