Weekend Writing Prompt – Page 3 – The Elephant's Trunk

Dear Ryan

October 21, 2024October 21, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Kevin’s No Theme Thursday 10.17.14 photo prompt,
Sammi’s 94 word Weekend Writing Prompt #386,
Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge
and Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge.
Responses must be exactly 94 words (for Sammi), including
‘teach’, ‘ahead’ and ‘simplicity’. Here’s my little story.

© Kevin @ No Theme Thursday

Doris sat in the kitchen proofreading her letter.

Dear Ryan Seacrest –

Imagine my surprise when I tuned into “Wheel of Fortune” and discovered you’re the new host!

Where the fuck is Pat Sajak? He could teach you a few things about show business! You have a nice smile and might have a future ahead in commercials.

You’re a cutie-pie; I wouldn’t mind a roll in the hay with you, that’s for damn sure. Next time you’re in Wichita, stop by Doris’ Donuts – simplicity at its tastiest!

I’ll keep the light on.

Fondly, Doris Lipsmacker

NAR©2024
94 Words

No Theme Thursday: 10.17.24

Weekend Writing Prompt #386 – Teach

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Ahead

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Simplicity

From 1952, this is “Wheel of Fortune” by Kay Starr

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Chills and Fever

October 14, 2024October 13, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #385.
The challenge is to write a poem or a piece of prose
in exactly 85 words using the word “vertigo”. Here’s mine.

What is this sudden disequilibrium?
I feel like I could fall flat on my bum!

Tummy’s flipping and I’m gonna be sick
Somebody get me some Pepto quick!

Ears are ringing, I’ve got a headache
Doctor, please! I need a break!

First a fever and now the chills
Pass me some of those magic pills!

My heart is racing like an SST
Give it to me straight, Doc. What’s wrong with me?

What’s that you say? It’s love vertigo?
There’s no cure? Well, whaddya know!

NAR©2024
85 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #385 – Vertigo

From 1964, this is “Chills and Fever” featuring a 24 year old Tom Jones and his group, The Senators.

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“Fresh” Tomatoes

October 8, 2024October 7, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt 384 (groceries),
Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge (mainly orange)
and Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (mock). Here’s my 29 word flash.

One “fresh” Heirloom tomato. How rude!

While shopping for groceries, I was surprised to see the tomatoes were mostly orange and looked like sickly miniature pumpkins. Oh, how you mock me, my beloved red Heirlooms!

NAR©2024
29 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #384 – Groceries

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Mainly Orange

FOWC With Fandango — Mock

This is “Home Grown Tomatoes” by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason

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Propagation of Uncertainty

October 2, 2024October 1, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #383
where we are asked to get creative in exactly 80 words using
any form of the required word “calculate”. Here is my flash.

Construction on the Queensboro Bridge, AKA the 59th Street Bridge, New York
© Pinterest

Think about all the calculations involved in bridge building – not the least of which is the maximum weight a bridge can hold at any given time. I’m not a mathematician or an engineer but it’s obvious the answer isn’t one you can get wrong … ever. No guessing allowed! One small miscalculation could spell disaster. Imagine tossing and turning in bed after handing in your numbers to the bridge committee, wondering if the decimal point was in the right place.

NAR©2024
80 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #383 – Calculate

This is “The 59^th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) by Simon & Garfunkel.

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Eat Me!

September 23, 2024September 21, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #382
where we are asked to get down in exactly 22 words,
using the required word “please”. Here’s my flash.

© naturallyella.com

Now that Autumn is here, I’m thinking Brown Butter Pecan Pancakes with a side scoop of butter pecan ice cream. Yes, please!

NAR©2024
22 Words

Here’s the recipe link: https://naturallyella.com/brown-butter-and-pecan-pancakes/

Weekend Writing Prompt #382 – Please

This is “Harvest Moon” by Neil Young

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Going To The Mattresses*

September 17, 2024September 15, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #381 where
Sammi asks us to use the prompt word “bungle” and
get creative in exactly 41 words. Here’s my flash.

© Pinterest

Dio mio! I’m afraid I’ve bungled things quite badly.

While planning the seating arrangement for my son’s wedding, I inadvertently placed Zia Carmella at Table 1 and her sister, Zia Francesca, at Table 2.

An insult! Disgrazia!

This means war!

NAR©2024
41 Words

* In times of war or siege, Italian families would vacate their homes and rent apartments in safer areas. In order to protect themselves they would hire soldiers to sleep on the floor in shifts. The meaning of the phrase “going to the mattresses” symbolizes the association in Italian folk-memory of mattresses with safety in wartime. The phrase wasn’t well known outside the US and Italy prior to the Godfather movies. It was used there, and later in The Sopranos, to mean “preparing for battle”.

Weekend Writing Prompt #381 – Bungle

When Kay met Michael, scenes from an Italian wedding (Godfather, 1972) featuring Al Martino as Johnny Fontane. This is “I Have But One Heart (O Marenariello)”

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Tears Come Easy

September 10, 2024September 9, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #380 and
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge where the required words
are ‘auction’ and ‘lilac’. In exactly 78 words, here is my story.

My husband came home from grocery shopping and after putting away the ice cream said to me, “I stopped by the Chatsworth Auction House. Look what I found.”

He handed me a small box; inside were vintage lilac gemstone and silver filigree earrings.

I started to cry … tears come easy … and he asked “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. They’re perfect” I sobbed. “Just like the ones I lost years ago.”

“I remember” he whispered and kissed my head.

NAR©2024
78 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #380 – Auction

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Lilac

This is “I Remember You” by Frank Ifield

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From Where to Eternity*

September 5, 2024September 5, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #379 and
Weekly Prompts – The One-Day Prompt. In exactly
82 words and including the required words
“timepiece” and “one day”, here is my flash.

© HBO, The Sopranos

The Sopranos, Episode 2.09. A post-surgery Christopher Moltisanti frantically pumps his morphine drip.

Those were my thoughts at 4AM after waking up in agony; my 8-Hour Tylenol had worn off two hours early, alerting the pain timepiece in my brain.

Clearly the Tylenol isn’t cutting it, but due to federal guidelines and crackdowns, a doctor’s ability to prescribe necessary painkillers has been seriously restricted and people like me living in the US are getting screwed.

Maybe one day they’ll get it right.

NAR©2024
82 Words
*The Sopranos, Season 2, Episode 9

Weekend Writing Prompt #379 – Timepiece

Weekly Prompts -The One-Day Prompt (5)

This is the opening theme for The Sopranos, “Woke Up This Morning”, by Alabama 3.

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Whole Lotta Shakin’

August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge with the
prompt word ‘bank’ and for Weekend Writing Prompt #377
using the word ‘reverberate’ in exactly 43 words. Here’s my piece.

When my kids played
the whole house would
shake
like an eight point
earthquake
and the coins in their
piggy bank
would
reverberate
as the crystal glasses
in the dining room
breakfront
did the hippy hippy
shake
and I
baked
an
earthquake
cake

NAR©2024
43 Words

You can find the recipe for Earthquake Cake HERE.

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Bank

Weekend Writing Prompt #377 – Reverberate

This is “The Hippy Hippy Shake” by the Swinging Blue Jeans

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Not My Bag, Baby

August 12, 2024August 12, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #376
where we are to write something in exactly 20 words
and include the word ‘handmade’. Here’s my flash.

© Nancy Richy

This quilted pillow is the only handmade item I’ve stitched.

I’m a cook and crafter but sewing’s not my thing!

NAR©2024
100 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #376 – Handmade

This is “I Am Woman” by the one and only Peggy Lee.

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Brace Yourself

August 6, 2024August 3, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

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/

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Brown

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Rigid

This is “Easy Money” by Billy Joel

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Feeling Punchy

July 9, 2024July 7, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #371
where we are asked to get creative in exactly 54 words using the prompt word “timorous”. Here’s my story.

Nelly was a timorous sort; every little thing turned her into a nervous wreck.

So the other night at the dinner party when everyone except Nelly started feeling deathly ill while she stood off to the side calmly sipping her water, the truth became obvious.

Nelly was the one who poisoned the punch bowl.

NAR©2024
54 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #371 – Timorous

This is “Little Drop Of Poison” by Tom Waits

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Noble Spirit

June 29, 2024June 29, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #370,
incorporating the word ‘pirate’ in a story of exactly 74 words.
Also for Thursday Inspiration #234 – ‘No Matter What/Nothing’,
What Do You See #242 (#WDYS) and Weekly Prompts –
The One-Day Prompt (3). Here is my story in exactly 74 words.

© Michael Dziedzic @ Unsplash

The fiery battle raged for days; in the end Evalyn, the Pirate Goddess, was victorious … but at what cost?

While fighting on deck, there was a sudden cannon retort followed by grapeshot finding its mark … Evalyn’s beautiful face. Her eyes were spared but she was disfigured.

That one day changed Evalyn into a stronger woman. For her, nothing else mattered.

Fashioning a mask of solid gold, she became Evalyn, the Noble Pirate.

NAR©2024
74 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #370 – Pirate

Thursday Inspiration #234 No Matter What

What do you see # 242- June 24th

Weekly Prompts -The One-Day Prompt (3)

This is “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica

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Bad Medicine

June 25, 2024June 23, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #369
where we are challenged to write something clever
in exactly 33 words using the word “spoonful”.

Identical medicine bottles was how my non-English speaking grandfather almost killed my grandmother.

Alone for 15 minutes resulted in administering a near-fatal spoonful of massaging oil of wintergreen instead of dextromethorphan for coughs.

NAR©2024
33 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #369 – Spoonful

This is “Bad Medicine” by Bon Jovi

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Inquiring Minds

June 19, 2024June 18, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge
and Weekend Writing Prompt #368 where we are
asked to be creative in exactly 100 words incorporating
the prompt words “sleep” and “quaint”. This is my story.

Poe Cottage Photo @ Pinterest

We visited the Poe Cottage this week, former home of the poet Edgar Allan Poe. It’s about a 30 minute drive from my house and I thought my two teenage grandchildren would enjoy the walk-around since they’re both reading the works of Poe in school.

It’s a quaint old place with small bedrooms, a common kitchen-parlor-dining room downstairs and an upstairs loft. My 6’ tall grandson questioned how a grown man could sleep in the tiny bed.

At one point I realized my grandson had gone missing. Imagine my embarrassment when he was found napping in Poe’s bed!

Inquiring minds.

Poe Cottage Bedroom Photo @ Pinterest

NAR©2024
100 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #368 – Quaint

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Sleep

This is “I’m So Tired” by the Beatles

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Love Happens

June 11, 2024June 9, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #367 using the required
word “party” in exactly 88 words; Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge,
with the required word “peak” and Weekly Prompts Wednesday
Challenge using the required word “sunset“. Here’s my flash.

Yesterday was our anniversary, wed 52 years. No party necessary.

None of our friends who married around the same time are still together. How sad is that?

People have asked “What’s the secret to a long and happy marriage?” For us it’s pretty simple: respect, communication, honesty, having a sense of humor.

When you combine those ingredients, love happens. You can manage the lows and celebrate the peaks, watch the dawns and the sunsets, walk hand-in-hand through the ordinary and make it extraordinary.

That’s us. Uncomplicated. Happy together.

NAR©2024
88 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #367 – Party

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Peak

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Sunset

This is “Happy Together” by the Turtles.

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Check List

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #366
where we are to get creative using the word ‘Monday’
in exactly 25 words. Here are my 25 words.

Garbage out? ✓
Clean sheets? ✓
Toilets swished? ✓
Kitchen mopped? ✓
Pain Management appointment? ✓

Trigger point injections and back massage? ✓

Lather, rinse, repeat next week! ✓

Routine Monday maintenance. ✓

NAR©2024
25 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #366 – Monday

This is “Yakety Yak” by the Coasters

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Fanning The Flames

May 26, 2024May 26, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #365
and Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge.
Our write must be 61 words exactly and include
the words ‘pause’ and ‘heroism’. Here’s my flash.

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial
Cambridge, England

This weekend in the US we pause to honor all Americans who died in any war while serving in the US Armed Forces.

There have been 108 wars involving the US, including 11 major wars, 4 ongoing. That’s a lot of fighting, bloodshed, death, heroism.

If war is hell, why do we keep fanning the flames? When will we ever learn?

NAR©2024
61 words

Weekend Writing Prompt #365 – Pause

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Heroism

This is “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” by the Kingston Trio

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Pointless

May 22, 2024May 21, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #364
where we are asked to be creative with the word
“squander” in exactly 11 words. Here is my creation.

Squander not your thoughts
on the predestined;
it is useless worry.

NAR©2024
11 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #364 – Squander

This is “Why Worry” by Dire Straits.

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More Time

May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekly Writing Prompt #363
where we are asked to write something in exactly
42 words, incorporating the word “cabinet”.
This is my story in 42 words.

When the landlord came calling for the rent, she pleaded for more time.

He refused and viciously slapped her across the face.

She fell against the cabinet and a rage grew in her like never before.

Grabbing the hidden gun, she turned.

NAR©2024
42 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #363 – Cabinet

This is “The Landlord” [UNCENSORED]

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Picture Perfect

May 8, 2024May 7, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #361;
we are asked to get creative in exactly 57 words and
include the word “classic”. This is my response.

“Oh, baby, you gotta see her! She’s a real beauty!
What curves, what style!
And the color is perfect …. it’s called Marina Blue and the paint job is amazing!
Brand new dash, broad grille, quad headlights and a tail sporting a fan-shaped alcove on both side panels.
I’m telling you, honey …. this one’s a classic!”

NAR©2024
57 Words

Author’s Note: That’s what my husband sounded like when he called to tell me about his ‘new’ vintage car …. a 1958 Chevy Bel Air. That was back in 1969 and he was still my boyfriend at the time. He was crazy about that car and took such good care of it. After about 8 months, someone stole it right off his driveway; that was one of a handful of times I’ve seen my husband cry.

Weekend Writing Prompt #362 – Classic

This is “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” by Billy Joel

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Demons And Wizards

April 28, 2024April 29, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #361;
93 words exactly using the prompt word ‘pilgrimage’

A rare alternate album cover of Heep’s “Demons and Wizards”

It was the early 1970s and the four of us scored tickets to see Uriah Heep in Allentown, PA. It was the dog days of August … the kind of sun that blisters your skin in minutes … and the concert was outdoors. The drive was 3 hours each way in scorching temperatures but we were going to that concert come hell or high water. Allentown became our Mecca and the road trip our personal hard rock pilgrimage. The details of that day are a little sketchy but the concert was freakin’ awesome.

NAR©2024
93 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #361 – Pilgrimage

This is “Easy Living” by Uriah Heep

© NAR – Uriah Heep, Allentown Fair Grounds, Aug. 26, 1973

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Steady Eddie

April 21, 2024April 20, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for
Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Saturday Mix Story Starter,
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge ‘flow’
and
Weekend Writing Prompt #360 ‘expire’.

There was no way he was doing it. And that was that.

He was a creature of habit, never deviating from the norm.

Let the cat out at 7:00 every morning.

Thermostat set at a constant 68º.

Teeth cleaned every four months without fail.

Just as rivers flow downhill, his course was ever steady.

No goddamn way was he going to let his parking meter expire.

NAR©2024
66 Words
#StoryStarter

Story Starter – Saturday Mix, 20 April 2024

Weekend Writing Prompt #360 – Expire

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Flow

This is The Outsiders with “Time Won’t Let Me:

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April Showers: A Haibun

April 14, 2024April 14, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #359 (tempest, 29 words)
Moonwashed Weekly Prompt (gilt-edged) and
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge (pointless)

It’s springtime! I love to see my flowers growing but sudden storms wreak havoc on defenseless, gilt-edged blossoms.

roses madly thrashed
spring’s wild tempest rains attack
my pointless garden

NAR©2024
29 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #359 – Tempest

Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Gilt-edged

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Pointless

This is “Dead Flowers” by the Rolling Stones – Totally Stripped

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The Cruel Mother

April 8, 2024April 7, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #358 ~ Superscript

Just like something out of the evening news.

Did the attractive young woman, a former nurse and mother of one toddler, actually feed her little boy bleach or was it just a dreadful accident?

How could any jury not believe the clean-faced white woman in the proper skirt and blouse as she tearfully recounted the events of that horrific morning?

But they did believe her and only the most perceptible viewer in the courtroom or the living room caught the slightest cold-blooded superscript curl of her top left lip.

NAR©2024
89 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #358 – Superscript

This is Emily Smith with “The Cruel Mother”

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Lovin’ From The Oven

March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt #357
using the word “temperature” in exactly 37 words.

Oven temperature set for 425ºF.

Brush turkey liberally with melted butter. Sprinkle with salt and drape bird with bacon strips. Place in oven and go watch the Macy’s Parade.

Return to heavenly, scrumptious golden-brown deliciousness.

Happy Easter!

NAR©2024
37 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #357 – Temperature

This is “Easter Parade” by Frank Sinatra

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Fire Dance

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Written for Story Starter – Saturday Mix and
Weekend Writing Prompt #356 –
prompt word ‘froward’ – 46 words exactly

In a fit of rage, she smashed her champagne glass on the marble floor and stared defiantly at him.

“I dare you!” she challenged, her breasts heaving.

How he adored this obstinate, froward redhead he’d married. He pulled her to him, hungrily kissing her swollen lips.

NAR©2024
46 Words

Story Starter – Saturday Mix, 23 March 2024

Weekend Writing Prompt #356 – Froward

This is “Fire Dance” by Rainbow

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Catch Of The Day

March 17, 2024March 16, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Sammi at Weekend Writing Prompt is challenging us to
get creative with the word “adventure” in exactly 76 words.
This is my response to that word challenge.

Bill and his blackfish

You ever have that feeling you get when you meet someone for the first time …. and you know?

That’s what happened to me when I first met Bill …. almost 56 years ago to the day. It was our first date, the dreaded blind date, but we had chemistry and we still do.

Sure, we’ve had our misunderstandings …. who hasn’t? …. but what an adventure our life has been.

He’s the fisherman but I caught a keeper!

NAR©2024
76 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #355 – Adventure

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Chemistry

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Misunderstanding

These are The Marvelettes and this is “Don’t Mess With Bill”

A summer flounder …. and Bill

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In The Dark

March 11, 2024March 9, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

A Dectina Refrain and a short poem
for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt.
Word requirement is 65, prompt word is “tap”.

Tap
tapping
on my door.
Who can it be?
It’s too dark to see
but the noise just won’t stop.
I get up from the sofa
and tippy toe to the front door;
peek through the window but no one’s there.
Tap tapping on my door. Who can it be?

Noise from outside.
It’s too dark to see.
No place to hide.
Stop watching me!

NAR©2024

Weekend Writing Prompt #354 – Tap

This is Billy Squier with “In The Dark”

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Purification

March 3, 2024March 2, 2024 Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶

Not
a peep
did she make
in her white dress
receiving the Holy Spirit.
Amen.

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Weekend Writing Prompt #353 – Spirit

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – White

This is Dalai Lama meditation, “Purification”

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