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This week’s Story Starter teaser is: The biggest difference between a man and a cat is that a cat has nine lives. The main house cat, Feral, knew this as a fact because he had experienced many men as masters over the hundred and twelve years he was on earth. This latest man was a distraction as he often listened to loud opera music and Feral took to his secret refuge in the yard behind the house whenever the master was home. It wouldn’t be long before the old master would be deaf/dead or both and the household would once again be a peaceful place to sleep. Being 112, Feral, himself, gradually slept more and more. This didn’t worry him as he was only on his fifth cycle of lives.

http://fivedotoh.com/2023/07/25/fandangos-story-starter-107/

http://christinebialczak.com/2023/07/25/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-07-25-2023/

1. What makes you smile at the drop of a hat? My kids and grandkids.

2. What makes you angry? Apathy.

3. What saddens you? A lot of sadness in my family the last six weeks as my last two sisters both passed away.

4. What do you find most frustrating? Politics

This week’s gratitude: I am grateful for the hospice care my sister received . And my close to me family support.

Share Your World 24th July

New to the Q? Here’s what to do:
Pen us a poem of exactly 44 words, including some form of the word water, and post the poem on your own blog with a link back to this post. Link your poem up using the Mr. Linky below. Then make your way around the web to visit the waterways other poets have shared. Remember: the Quadrille is open all week, so be sure to float on back here to read – and write!- some more.

https://dversepoets.com/author/whimsygizmo/

You are no knight and that is not a four wheeled carriage, it’s a wagon! In my generation (her grandkids mumble “ancient”) we used to know how to obey a woman’s request! No such maverick as you, sir, would be giving orders! Men were humble and courteous.

It was the anniversary of Lady Dunbar’s wedding to Sir Chiles, and she had squeezed herself into her old wedding gown, not realizing the back was wide open to accommodate her inflated size. A wool charcoal wedding suit was laying on the bed. She looked around for anyone to wear it, as it had been packed up with the dress. Sir Chiles had been gone for twenty years, but Lady Dunbar insisted on celebrating each year, regardless.

You there! The Lady pointed to her grandson Charles—you can wear it, it is reusable of course, so let’s see it on. The reluctant young man did as he was bidden.

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Weekend Writing Prompt #321 – Renegade

***Barbie’-‘Oppenheimer’ Double Feature on Opening Weekend

http://cyranny.com/2023/07/19/july-19th-1minfiction-challenge/

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.

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Mind the grid. Mind your step. Mind your instrument. Mind the cadence. Dress right, dress. Be loud and proud!

Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

PROMPT WORD: GRID

Wordle 614 – A Baker’s Dozen

The U.S. House Labor, Healthb and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittees released its draft fiscal year 2024 appropriations legislation that proposed to zero out federal funding for public media.

The bill eliminates funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), public television and radio’s single largest source of funding, and Interconnection, public media’s distribution network that enables viewers and listeners to receive programs and emergency alerts.

Let us be clear: Without federal funding, there is no public media. Multiple studies confirm that ending funding would devastate, if not destroy, public media, resulting in the loss of programs and services or stations going off air.

Americans consistently rank federal funding for public media as one of the best investments the government makes. For about $1.40 per American annually, almost every community has access to programs and services that educate, inform, and inspire.

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