A magical new weekly writing opportunity from me – Jenne Gray – and him – C. E. Ayr.
Visit this blog every Friday, read an amazing story from each of us, and then post your own even better effort in the comments below. The rules are: Maximum of 250 words.

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They tried everything. Dreams were wavering as fate seemed to be deciding failure was going to be theirs. It looked good at first and being dreamers, they envisioned a unique hotel. Seemingly a huge docked ship, they thought decorating the interior in that fashion would be an eye catching success. As time ran on, money ran out and the idea dissipated into nothing. Now they are owners of the town’s largest eyesore.

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The Unicorn Challenge-09/02/24

Album: An Innocent Man

Artist: Billy Joel

Released: 1983

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https://rugby843.blog

Since I already bashed Trump today, I offer this from four, count-’em, 😳four years ago:

I shouldn’t have, but I did. . .😎 5-8-20 by rugby843

I was putting away some poetry notes and noticed the timing of the Etheree–1-10 syllables, no rhymes. And of course my target? Guess.

Trump

Teflon

Dictator

Seeming heartless

Professing knowledge

Is always thinking “Trump”

Disparages all experts

Takes no responsibility

Invents his own selfish rules and laws

When will this political nightmare end?

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Fandango’s Flashback Friday — February 9th

From NPR:

“Former President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil attempted to overturn the country’s 2022 presidential election,according to accusations by the Brazilian federal police. Yesterday, police raided dozens of properties, seized his passport and arrested his close aides. An investigation also detailed what they say was a vast conspiracy by the right-wing leader and his aides to plot a coup. At one point, the report said Bolsonaro personally edited a proposed order to arrest a Supreme Court justice.”

https://rugby843.blog

When things get “heavy” we are told to look for the light. That’s not always an easy thing to do. Sometimes the dark seems to last too long and we struggle, but the light is there so we just need to keep striving for it!

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Feb. 10, 2024

In retrospect, I wouldn’t say it was my best idea. I was going to the grocery on my scooter in 2015. I was following my grandson, he on his bike. We did lots of small trips, he on his bike, sometimes his little brother on a child scooter. It was a fun outlet always.

We were in the parking lot adjacent to the store and there was a speed bump. My grandson yelled back to me, “grandma, don’t go that way!” And me being an ass, thought I could navigate the bump if I approached it diagonally as if driving a car. The three wheeled scooter tipped and I fell off, breaking a bone in my hip and destroying my left elbow.

I ended up in the ER at three in the morning, had an allergic reaction to a Dilaudid injection, resulting in a pulmonary embolism and a week in hospital followed by rehab and taking Warfarin for nine months.

The worst part of it that still bothers me is the fact my grandson thought it was his fault. Of course it wasn’t, it was totally mine. He is still the empathetic sweet young man he was then.♥️

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Writer’s Workshop Prompts for February 8, 2024

Here are the questions:

1. Something you’ve waited for recently?Paycheck☺️

2. What’s something you loved to do as a child? Fly on a swing.

3. Something you learned from a grandparent? Be quiet.

4. The most visited cities in the world last year (according to this site) were-Bangkok, Paris, London, Dubai, and Singapore. Have you been to any of the cities mentioned? Which would you most like to see? How do you feel about international travel in general these days? I’m not really interested in those places to visit but would love to visit my son and his wife in southern France.

5. February is the perfect month to rest up from the cold of January.

6. Insert your own random thought here: I would like WP to loosen up their constraints on how lines are posed on posts.🙄 Constantly having to readjust, etc takes a lot of time and causes frustration.

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http://www.fromthissideofthepond.com/2024/02/waiting-on-hodgepodge.html?m=1

Poetics: Sail into a Poem

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

They just stood there, staring at each other. Everyone in the family around them stared too. It was the first time any of them heard him say “I love you” to his wife.

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Fandango’s Story Starter #135

24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, No. 20, 2/6/24, Part I, The Beginning of Spring (February 3 – 20) Risshun 立春 24