Author: rugby843

twilight tender buds

soft sun setting scenery

water in repose

time to dream of day’s events

readying for tomorrow

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http://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/05/09/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-319-5-9-2023/

Sue thumbed through the catalog with disinterest because other purchases from this company didn’t solve problems they were supposedly designed for. But she needed something…she tried alarms, and screening cameras on her doors, one in back and one in front. Sue tried asking the police for more neighborhood patrols at night but the city was not big enough for such “luxuries” as they referred to them.

“Is it a luxury to want to be safe?” she had protested, but as most things, found she could not “fight city hall”. Sue was a reasonable person, but had received threatening notes under her door, accompanied by hang up phone calls and after a couple of weeks of this, she was at her wit’s end. Sue thought she knew the source of the notes but couldn’t seem to prove anything to the extent needed for police intervention.

Then she turned the page to find the “dog”…

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http://christinebialczak.com/2023/05/09/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-05-09-2023/

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

SHE SEARCHED HER APARTMENT FRANTICALLY TRYING TO FIND IT, BUT IT WASN’T THERE…all this time she spent researching his ancestry, the phone calls, the emails, the library time to find out who he really was and then present it as proof he was not worthy, gone! There was only one explanation—she must have left the folder at the library. She was just getting on her coat to go back to the library when a knock sounded on her door. She hastily flung it open to see…him! He was standing there holding the folder up in the air, and said “looking for this?”

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http://fivedotoh.com/2023/05/09/fandangos-story-starter-96/

http://lindaghill.com/2023/05/10/one-liner-wednesday-in-the-age-of-the-internet/

That’s just a taradiddle, no one really thinks a donkey is capable of any significant thoughts! The span of centuries using these animals for laborious jobs proves that! If their intelligence was impactful, their dedication would lessen and you’d have a combination of too strong a will and losing them as “dumb” beasts of burden. It’s a slam-dunk to me—I don’t mingle among the current herd just in case they aren’t the flummoxed animals I perceive. They are known for their strong kicks!

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2023/05/08/wordle-321/

Artist: Steely Dan

Released: 1977 Album: Aja Genre: Rock

https://rugby843.blog

The knight sheathed his sword

The page had now turned

The handmaiden fainted

Her indiscretion a burn

A note had been written

And now all was clear

The knight, indeed smitten

But the king thought it a smear

The king’s anger with punishment was announced

There will be a duel! And the poor knight was trounced.

(A warning to all-if the princess a beauty,

Keep feelings secret, only mind your duty.)

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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/05/08/three-things-challenge-m322/#more-96133. Your three words today are:
SWORD
PAGE
HANDMAIDEN

http://gmgblog.ca/2023/05/08/five-word-weekly-challenge-2319/

Prosery is the prompt where we write prose based on some given lines of poetry. This can be flash-fiction or creative non-fiction, but it cannot exceed 144 words in total (not including the title) and must not be poetry (no versification, line breaks, metre, etc.). Write a piece of flash fiction or other prose up of up to or exactly 144 words, including the given line from the poem: Charles Simic’s following lines of poetry:

“On this day without a date,
On a back street, dusky”. I met her in our special place, behind the five and dime where Marie was a cashier. Exactly at five-thirty every day but Sunday, Marie would take her break and I would take mine from the gas station where I worked. On Sunday we might have a picnic in the park or take in a movie at the bijou. But nothing compared to the secret rendezvous every day. The back alley was quiet and we enjoyed a few minutes of privacy, always starting with a long, sweet embrace.

https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/08/dverse-prosery-charles-simic-finding-our-pack/#like-26421

http://fivedotoh.com/2023/05/08/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-218/