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From Eden

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Sammi at Weekend Writing Prompt has challenged us to write
a poem or prose of exactly 97 words, including the word β€˜anfractuous’.
I’ve added a few other prompts I had laying around, namely from
FOWC with Fandango, Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge and
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge. This is my 97-word story.

They lived in lush green perfection of ripe fruit and pristine water. When their misadventures and disobedience angered the Maker, they and their sons were cast out.

One son, a farmer, made an offering of paltry wheat; the Maker was displeased.

The other, a shepherd, offered his firstborn lamb, which pleased the Maker.

In a panic, the jealous farmer killed his brother.

Enraged and saddened, the Maker banished the murderer, condemning him to a life of endless wandering.

AnfractuousΒ paths covered the land. The farmerΒ roamedΒ for years, until blindly falling from a cliff to his death.

NARΒ©2024
97 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #349 – Anfractuous
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Green
FOWC with Fandango β€” Roam
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Misadventures
FOWC with Fandango β€” Panic

This is Hozier with “From Eden”

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Jumping The Shark

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Two prompts today:
Weekend Writing Prompt and
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge ~
to include the words ‘bridge’ & ‘turmoil’,
all in 53 words. Here is my story.

There are certain lines that exist in society, even among the closest of friends, lines not meant to be crossed.

She not only crossed the line …. she hurtled the bridge and jumped the shark.

And why? She’s only human and carelessly, regrettably didn’t think things through; now her brain is in turmoil.

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Bridge.
Weekend Writing Prompt #348 – Turmoil

This is Billy Joel with β€œYou’re Only Human”

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Home Cooking

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Sammi at Weekend Writing Prompt
is challenging us with the word β€œnote”;
in exactly 72 words, this is my response.

My mother was a terrific cook; her specialty was, of course, homemade Italian food – manicotti, arancini, etc.

She left me her β€˜recipe book, which was really nothing more than scribbled notes. Her ‘detailed‘ cooking instructions read: β€œsome cheese” and a β€œglass” of water.

I can remember the glass she used to add water to whatever she was cooking; it was an old Flintstones jelly jar.

How I wish I had that jar!

NARΒ©2024
72 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #347 – Note

This is “Come On-A My House” by Louis Prima

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High And Dry

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Sammi at Weekend Writing Prompt
is challenging us with the word “note”;
in exactly 72 words, this is my response.
🍸

After thirty minutes and two martinis I began feelingΒ paranoid. It was painfully obvious, at least to me, that everyone who saw me sitting by the bar thought I was either an elegant call girl just past her prime or a lonesome, tedious housewife who had beenΒ stood up.Β 

I became aware of someone approaching. I looked up expectantly, smiling; it was just the concierge. Whispering discreetly, he handed me a note.

NARΒ©2024
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Weekend Writing Prompt #347 – Note

This is β€œThe Queen of the Blues”, Dinah Washington, with β€œDrinking Again”

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Step Right Up

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Sammi at Weekend Writing Prompt
has challenged us to write a piece
of exactly 87 words, making sure to
include the prompt “appointment”.
This is my response to that challenge.

β€œDo you have an appointment?”

β€œAn appointment? I didn’t even know I was coming!”

β€œHaha! You should have seen your face! You looked like you were gonna die!”

β€œFunny! You’re a regular Jerry Seinfeld!”

β€œListen, toots! You barely made it up here so don’t push it. HE remembers everything!”

β€œUp here? So I made it? Oh, thank God!”

β€œYou’ll get your chance.”

β€œGatekeeper, can I put in a good word for a friend?”

β€œNo saving seats.”

β€œCan I tell you her name?”

β€œNo need. HE already knows.”

NARΒ©2024
87 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #346 – Appointment

From the soundtrack of The Aviator this is Rufus Wainwright with β€œI’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise”

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Finger Lickin’ Good

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This is my 45-word response to
Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
incorporating the word “guide”.

Our guide,

he truly tried

to hide

from the cannibal tribe

but they circled wide

and would not be denied

eating our group fried

at the feast for chief’s bride.

We offered a bribe.

With whisky plied

they let it slide.

Bright side:

nobody died!

NARΒ©2024
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Weekend Writing Prompt #345 – Guide

This is Mark Knopfler with β€œCannibals”

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Dizzy Miss Lizzy

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It’s a hat trick!
Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge,
Fandango’s One Word Challenge and
Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt.
πŸŽ„β€‚ πŸ‘“β€ƒπŸ˜‰

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In my tree
winking at me.
Can you see?
No?
You need glasses!

NAR Β© 2024
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Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #248
FOWC with Fandango β€” Glasses
Weekend Writing Prompt #344 – Wink

This is β€œDizzy Miss Lizzy” by the incredible Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids. Of course it is!!

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VERNAL EQUINOX

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As I sit here in my recliner looking out my bedroom window, wondering where Christmas has gone, I ask myself if I should venture out for my walk.

β€œIt’s a bleak-looking day and awfully chilly. Stay inside where it’s warm and comfy.”

But then I remember that my wonky knee could use the exercise and time is fleeting. In just 83 days the beautiful blushing bride of nature will arrive and winter will be nothing but a distant memory.

NAR Β© 2023
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This is Felix Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song, Op. 62 No. 6″

Weekend Writing Prompt #343 – Window

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LIFE IS STRANGE

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This weekend our challenge was
to write a poem or a piece of prose
in exactly 21 words using the word β€œocean”.
Here’s mine.

Me and sis
AI Β© Misky

Life is strange.

I’ve lived years on  
one continent
only to find a friend
across the ocean

who became
my sister.

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #342 – Ocean

This is Lucy and Ethel singing β€œFriendship”

And from the 1954 movie “White Christmas”, this is Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen singing “Sisters” (co-stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye).

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TANGO

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Their eyes met across the darkened, smoke-filled room. The attraction was too strong for either one to look away.

They slowly circled the perimeter of the dance floor, never breaking the chain that kept them spellbound.

Everyone and everything in the room seemed to vanish except for the music.

They fell into an embrace and began to dance a tango, moving to the rhythm of their hearts.

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #341 – Rhythm

This is Lorena Tarantino and Gianpiero Galdi dancing to β€œLa Cumparsita”.

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THWACK!

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β€œWatcha staring at, Norman?”

β€œAin’t staring, Agnes. I’m observing.”

β€œThat so? Watcha observing then, Norman?”

β€œNuthin that concerns you, Agnes.”

β€œIt’s Mrs. Claus with the biggy bumps, ain’t it?”

β€œShe’s got a nice wobble, is all.”

β€œYou idiot!”

**THWACK!!**

β€œOw! I gots a biggy bump on me head now, Agnes!”

β€œAin’t no bump, Norman! Just a wee wobble.”

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #340 – Wobble

This is Sue Thompson singing “Norman”.

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AS IF

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Our summer neighbors were two women from Manhattan; β€œplaywrights”, they said.

There was endless β€œlesbian” speculation.

The writers called their weekend cottage β€œIntermission” – tres cool!

Idiots foolishly obsessed over the whole gay thing.

β€œWho gives a fuck?” I argued. β€œThey’re authors!”

β€œSays the storyteller!” the idiots jibed.

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #339 – Cottage

This is Elvis Costello & The Attractions with “Everyday I Write The Book”

Today I’m hosting
Name That Tune.
Hit the link; try your luck!
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PERCHANCE TO DREAM

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Come to bed, pretty.

Can you hear the wolf beckoning you?

Let the Sandman cradle you in his arms, protect you from the macabre terrors of the night.

You trust me, sweet child, don’t you?

Foolish.

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #338 – Macabre

This is Metallica and β€œEnter Sandman”

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THE MESSAGE

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General Agricola was restless; for three nights he did not sleep. The Caledonians were plotting, of this he was certain. They were a pompous lot, thinking they could defeat his legions.

There was fire in his belly and he was determined to prove himself irreplaceable to the emperor, Vespasian.

Agricola summoned his first officer, Acilius. β€œI require the services of the scribe, Tertius. Depart immediately and bring him to me.”

Acilius did as commanded. The wizened scribe, Tertius, sat at the foot of Agricola, his calamus at the ready. He began the most crucial message of his life.

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #337 – Scribe
FOWC with Fandango β€” Belly
FOWC with Fandango β€” Pompous
Officer
FOWC with Fandango β€” Restless
Wizened

This is Civil War doing “Rome Is Falling”

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THE BIG HUNT

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I search high, I look low.

Where did my damn glasses go?

They aren’t here or over there.

I can’t find them anywhere.

Not on the couch or near the stove.

I’ve been home, did not rove!

Not by the sink, under the bed.

Well look at that! They’re on my head!

NAR Β© 2023
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For M

Weekend Writing Prompt #336 – Search

This is “Keep Searchin'” by Del Shannon

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BLEEDING ON MY PAGE

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Baby animals are cute.Β So are knitted booties, toothless grins.

My engagement ring definitely wasn’t cute, even though my mother declared it so 53 years ago; neither are the stories I write and frequently bleed on.

I have issues with β€œcute”; you’re going to give me a complex by commenting with that word.

We wouldn’t want that, would we?

I might have to disassociate, sever ties, and that would be a bloody shame.

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #335 – Dissociate

It’s the Stones doing “Let It Bleed”. Yeah, it is. 🩸

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KIND OF A DRAG

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It was a busy night at The Cock β€˜n Bull. The second act was about to start when Paige Turner came running out of her dressing room screaming that she’d been robbed.

Imagine my embarrassment when I, Angie O’Plasty, queen of the Chicago circuit drag queens, was accused of trying to absquatulate with all the girl’s expensive wigs!

Of course it was a complete misunderstanding and I was exonerated when my nemesis, Brook Trout, was found with the stolen goods.

Talk about a hair-raising experience!

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #334 – Absquatulate
Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Embarrassment
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Found!

This is The Buckinghams doing “Kind of a Drag”. As if!

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RHAPSODESIA

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The sea kisses the shore
The clouds embrace the sky
Your lips whisper love words
upon my neck
My breasts ache for your touch

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #333 – Whisper

This is Emile Pandolfi performing Ebb Tide – 1991

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JUDAS BLUE EYES

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I cherished you

Once beloved
friend
confidant
brother

How you
eviscerated
me

Your eyes
radiate
hate

Your mouth
spews

Lies
Aspersions
Deceptions
Distortions
Fabrications
Dishonesty
Duplicity
Hypocrisy
Inaccuracy
Mendacity
Perfidy

You are
dead
to me

NAR Β© 2023
35 words

Weekend Writing Prompt #331 – Radiate

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ANYONE HERE?

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Ooh!

A complimentary gift certificate for a day at the spa!

Perfect for a little R&R.

Just some quality ‘me time‘ because I’m so worth it.

Caught up in the daily maelstrom of doing for everyone else.

This will be heavenly!

Ah, here we are.

Hmm, looks a bit spartan.

Anyone here?

Hello?

Anyone?

Well, shit!

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #330 – Maelstrom
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KILLER MIGRAINE

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What great luck!

I caught the train in the nick of time and snagged the last seat.

I sighed, closed my eyes and dozed off.

Not one minute passed and the woman next to me started yakking.

She gabbed, blabbed and jabbered on.

I would have gladly strangled her but people were all around.

My head started pounding and I felt a migraine coming on.

This blatherskite wouldn’t shut up and I was trapped.

What rotten luck!

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #329 – Blatherskite
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WHAT A SCAM

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My husband’s birthday is coming up soon.

He always says not to buy anything but I do and a card, too.

Have you checked out the prices of cards lately?

A Hallmark can cost as much as $8.00 or $9.00.

It’s paper, for crying out loud!

There’s no music or pop-ups – just a simple, do nothing card.

What a scam!

But he’s worth it.

NAR Β© 2023
64 Words

Weekend Writing Prompt #328 – Hallmark
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MAN OF GOD

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Fist pounding against

the pulpit, tongue wagging,

assuming you know more about

marriage

than the couples you

humiliate.

You are an

unseeing,

unfeeling,

unfulfilled

magniloquent

hypocrite.

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #327 – Magniloquent

I hope you’ll join me today
in The Rhythm Section
for another game of
Name That Tune.
I’ll see you there!
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RUN IT!

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Damn! Have you seen the upper body on Michael B. Jordan? He’s the fine young actor who plays Adonis Creed in the new “Creed” movies.

And when I say β€˜fine’, I mean fine.

Whether his goal is to get into shape, make award winning movies, encourage young athletes to get in the best shape possible or to leave a trail of panting women behind him, he has succeeded in all those endeavors.

Like his father Apollo Creed, he is one incredible specimen. Just saying.

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #326


https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2023/08/26/weekend-writing-prompt-326-creed/

FOWC with Fandango β€” Goal
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HORSE SENSE

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With all the horsecrap spewed by devious, fear-mongering bobble heads, how can there be impartiality?

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #325 – Impartiality
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YOU ROCK!

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I GOT TO SEE THE STONES TODAY!

WHILE THEY’RE NOT A PANACEA FOR ALL MY ILLS, THEY SURE DO PUT SOME PEP IN MY STEP.

I WONDER IF THEY’RE GOING TO BE APPEARING IN THE SAME PLACE TOMORROW?

HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE!

NAR Β© 2023
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Weekend Writing Prompt #324 – Panacea
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THE FIRST TIME

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The first time I felt my baby
move inside me,
I was in the bathtub.
I felt a tiny flutter in my belly
and thought β€œmaybe”.
Then the water rippled
and my heart soared.
❀︎

NAR Β©
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Weekend Writing Prompt #322 – Flutter
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RETRIBUTION

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A hat trick today:
Fandango’s Story Starter,
Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt
and
Linda G. Hill’s Stream of Consciousness.
Uno, due, tre and away we go!

Unlocking the door as quietly as I could, I slipped into the dark kitchen when my wife suddenly flicked on the lights, temporarily blinding me.

Quickly turning, I crashed into the refrigerator, breaking my nose. I fell to the floor, nose hemorrhaging, badly spraining my neck, wrist and ankle.

I sat there dejected, in agony.

My wife shrieked β€œFour nights this week. That’s a record! You’re outta here, you SOB!”

NAR Β© 2023
70 words exactly

https://fivedotoh.com/2023/07/11/fandangos-story-starter-105/
Weekend Writing Prompt #320 – Dejected
The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS July 15, 2023