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Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 02/27/2024

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

“This may seem like an odd request, but…have you ever thought about modeling?”Jane was taken aback and her face started to pink up. Never before had anyone asked her that and she was embarrassed. She replied “no” to the man who seemed genuinely interested in her. Jane blushed and then straightened her posture. The man continued, “our magazine is looking for women with extra large feet for our new shoe line ads”. Jane threw him a hateful look, sharply turned and walked quickly away.

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I had to laugh at this starter, Fan!

Fandango’s Story Starter #138

muddy

winter lanes

unpaved dirt roads

I don’t like frozen

ruts

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cold

spring rains

make travel difficult

I never drive then

dangerous

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24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 23, 2/27/24, Part II: Snow Becomes Rain (February 19 – March 4) Usui 雨水

Woke up this mornin

Snow on the ground

Thought I’d try to write

Something profound

Well it’s cold and it’s windy

No energy for a riff

It’s February trending

And old bones are stiff

Putting on coffee

Waking me up

Take the dog for a walk

No blues with that pup.

So that’s my story

Listen if you like

I doubt it’s memorable

Has no interest spike.

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• Write a haibun that alludes to Snow Moon.
• Post it on your personal site/blog.
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pale and full

the hunger moon stays

observing

animals cocooned

empty bellied young

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Haibun Monday 2-26-24: Snow Moon

Bring on the trolley

Start the drips and injections

This hospital ward is above any station

We’ll need tests causing pain and no privacy

The nurses and docs have their priorities

The only thing we can promise before discharge

We’ll invade your privacy at an exorbitant charge!

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MLMM Wordle #361

Let’s give Mary from Jingle Jangle Jungle a round of applauds. 👏 She volunteered to be this month’s guest co-hostess.  The final theme for February, Mary is giving you two choices.  The first one is to spell pistachio using Song Titles (or Artists/Bands if you prefer) since it’s National Pistachio Day or  go with number two to build your picks with “leap” or  “jump” song titles since it’s a leap year. 

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I had fun with this prompt and wanted a variety- 😂

Peter Gunn – Henry Mancini

I just died in your arms tonight – Cutting Crew

Sittin’ on the dock of the bay – Otis Redding

Til I kissed You – Everly Brothers

Anyone – George Ezra

California dreaming – Mamas and papas

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

I’ve had the time of my life – Bill Medley and Jennifer Warned

Objects in the rear view mirror – Meatloaf

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Leap of Faith

Here are this week’s questions:

1.  How many times have you been a patient in hospital? More than I would like to think.

2.  Did you notice any differences with your experiences?Definitely, from a small town to a huge city medical center to a large city to a small city varies significantly. Probably the worst experience I had was in Southwest hospital in Houston. I think maybe it had needed to be torn down but is where I received radiation therapy after my first cancer.

3.  On a scale of  1 to 5, with 5 being good and 1 being poor, how would you rate food choices, and separately on the same scale, quality? UCDenver hospital my number one choice but Cheyenne is not bad.

4.  How long were you in for? Anywhere from two weeks to a few days not counting a ten day rehab.

Gratitude: I guess with this subject matter that any hospital stay you get out alive is a good one😳😂So I’m grateful for that.

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Share Your World 26th February

Her logic always seemed simple. Treat the problem from a **mathematical point of view. Using logic in all situations was her specialty. Being a forthright teacher in the school, her students did not vary. The dreamers found other instructors. Miss Peabody’s class attendants were all competent in logical problem solving.

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**The hammer-and-nail metaphor was first utilised in the context of conducting scientific research in the 1960’s. Maslow (1966) acknowledged that “it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail”

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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

Joe woke up groggy, cursed the sunlight glaring into his eyeballs and checked the time on his watch. Suddenly aware of the woman beside him, her pale beauty triggered a response low in his body that similarly preceded last night’s scene. The night had been a lovely dream space, but the harsh morning light anchored his mind and stirred a passing thought of guilt. He stepped onto the floor slowly and carefully, pulled on his clothes and left.

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Wordle 643