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SoCS 4-27-24
Trump and his crew enter the courtroom. Several followers line up behind them. The authority stops them and says: Show me your IDs. They answer: IDs? IDs? We don’t need no stinkin’ IDs!
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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS April 27, 2024
Writer’s Workshop
Tanka Tuesday
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quiet crystal drops
land softly on bright blue orbs
April showers felt
hyacinth buds welcome them
celebrate part of earth day
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24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 31, 4/23/24, Part I, Grain Rain (April 19 – May 4) Koku 穀雨
Fandango’s Story Starter
This week’s Story Starter teaser is:
As much as Tim had tried to ignore it, he couldn’t deny it any longer. They were just too big! Too damn big and what was he thinking anyway? She’d never go for a guy with big feet! She was a delicate small dancer and he was a big oaf. This isn’t beauty and the beast he thought, there’s just no way she’ll give me a second look. At that moment, Miss Julie Davenport walked up to him and asked him to dance. He was at the Sadie Hawkins dance at the local high school and standing on the side with a bunch of other boys. When Julie approached Tim, he thought he might faint. Maybe fairytales are true, he thought, as he took her hand.
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Fandango’s Story Starter #146
MLMM Wordle – Jekyll or Hyde?
His inner rage was cold and dark, and in moments, even seconds, the shy being he outwardly portrayed was gone, changes were revealed and he was dangerous. But when he was alone, true feelings stripped bare, he began to silently cry in frustration.
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MLMM Wordle #369
MLMM. Photo Challenge
a task too hard
a goal too far
each step challenged
is achievement
not possible?
dare to step one
two easier
three on your way
you can do this!
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Photo Challenge #512
Six Sentence Story – Cured?
Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link up at Wednesday’s post. Link goes live at 6:00 pm through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers.
PROMPT WORD: TONIC
I think it was the tonic, my mind’s gone supersonic. Or maybe ‘twas the shaman’s brew; I only drank one or two. Promises of a cure for stress, ‘cause my life has been a mess, I went into a shaman’s tent, where all my troubles I did vent. I was served drinks to cure my ills which provided me with curious chills. Then my body was moving wildly, no longer sad and sitting idly, started jouncing and couldn’t stop, but the sadness, it did stop. Now I’m finally at my ease, don’t know about their expertise, but all the melancholy gone, no longer feel so withdrawn. You never know what makes a cure, the shaman’s drink may not endure, but for now a normal life’s secured.
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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!
SYW 4-22-24
Here are this week’s questions:
1. Have you ever attended a First Aid Course? Yes
2. Apart from grazed knees and applying a band aid, have you ever applied First Aid? I did give a woman my oxygen feed when she needed it in a grocery store and hers had run out– just until 911 arrived.
3. Are you squeamish about the sight of blood? No.
4. How far away is the nearest hospital? About two miles.
Gratitude: Beyond grateful to our 911 responders, and family who have helped me since I broke my leg four weeks ago today.
Share Your World 22nd April
dVerse Poets Haibun Monday
We specks with our feet planted on this big beautiful blue ball, never realizing how privileged we are, and treating this environment as if it will last forever, are naive.
our careless actions
what are we thinking about
our lovely surround
our children deserve better
than to suffer our mistakes
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Haibun Monday 4/22/24: Earth Day
The Bag Lady 
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