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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

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MLMM Wordle #369

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Photo Challenge #512

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 Now I’m finally at my ease, don’t know about their expertise, but all the melancholy gone, no longer feel so withdrawn.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!

Share Your World 22nd April

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 sky, the moon, the sea, are all on the outskirts of my dream. Sleepy stories in wispy ancient books draw my attention, but I won’t make new foot prints in these environments. I draw a sketch, showing a sliver of each to fill cracks in my hopefulness. Because it is a dream to think that the sea will last forever, and even as the moon still shines in the sky, the earth below will suffer our carelessness.

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Cellpic Sunday – Fueling the Cruise Ship

Welcome to the Saturday Mix – Story Starter, 20 April 2024!
You will be given a sentence to start off your response. It is your choice whether you write using poetry or prose.

Your story starter for this week is:

There was no way he was doing it. And that was that…and he put his foot down, hard! That was before he looked where he was putting his foot, but soon realized, as the odiferous dog leavings made their presence known. It was typical Tom behavior, and no one seemed surprised. Their friends started leaving quickly and when they were all gone, his wife said, “well that’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into”, quoting Hardy of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team. Tom sidled off to the grassy lawn and tried to clean his shoe. All the while his wife was smiling triumphantly.

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Story Starter – Saturday Mix, 20 April 2024

Three policemen, each with his own motives and obsessions, tackle the corruption surrounding an unsolved murder at a downtown Los Angeles coffee shop in the early 1950s. Detective Lieutenant Exley (Guy Pearce), the son of a murdered detective, is out to avenge his father’s killing. The ex-partner of Officer White (Russell Crowe), implicated in a scandal rooted out by Exley, was one of the victims. Sergeant Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) feeds classified information to a tabloid magnate (Danny DeVito).

Saturday night a great time to watch this movie👍🏻. And it’s free!☺️

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