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This week’s Story Starter teaser is: YOU CHOSE TO DO WHAT YOU DID, BUT NOW THAT I KNOW WHAT YOU DID, YOU’VE LEFT ME NO CHOICE.

Nope, I’m going back to the A&P! I don’t care if it takes extra gas, it’s all your fault! I open up the package of chicken breasts to find chicken gizzards! Yuck! You may have grown up elsewhere but we live in Canada now and I’m never cooking anything like this disgusting mess, ever! She shuddered as she wrapped the butcher paper back tightly again and grabbed her keys.

http://fivedotoh.com/2023/03/28/fandangos-story-starter-90/

This story inspired by my trip to the grocery yesterday looking for chicken breasts.🤢

It’s supposed to be right here in this box. Could you speak up Joe? My earpiece is failing. I know, it’s supposed to look like a mailbox—or something, but it’s a great message holder for us undercovers, as long as we hurry. What? I have the wrong box? The wrong tree? Jeez Joe, make up your mind, I can only hold this small disguise so long. It would be a disaster if I suddenly transformed back into a human! Is the message in a pink envelope with lipstick kisses all over it? Okay then, got it! Mike scurried down the tree trunk and ran over to his car, now transforming back into a human.

http://christinebialczak.com/2023/03/28/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-03-28-2023/

http://lindaghill.com/2023/03/29/one-liner-wednesday-glad-i-didnt-owe-anything/

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Today, let’s write a haibun that references pressure, in whatever way you experience or conceive of it. For those new to haibun, the form consists of one to a few paragraphs of prose…

• Write a haibun that alludes to pressure.
• Post it on your personal site/blog
• Include a link back to dVerse in your post.

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Getting a masters degree while working at a college, and newly married is the life my granddaughter has chosen. She has guts!

homework into night

coffee maintains tired brain

goal oriented

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http://dversepoets.com/2023/03/27/haibun-monday-3-27-23-pressure/

http://gmgblog.ca/2023/03/27/five-word-weekly-challenge-2313/

https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/03/28/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-313-3-28-23/

https://gmgblog.ca/2023/03/28/four-line-fiction-2313/#like-6841

I strive to be seen

Through your favorites’ screen

I rise up and greet

But no one wants to meet

My presence…for I am a weed

Started just like the others, from a seed

My form may not be your idea of pretty

As others grown here, but please take pity

On me and others you choose to despise

We all need a place to live our lives.

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http://dversepoets.com/2023/03/28/weeds-rule-ok/

“A chunky grey staircase thrusts out from the side of a new office tower in Los Angeles, lunging towards a rail line before jerking back on itself and lurching up the building in jagged twists and turns. It crashes into a warped lattice of bands that wrap around the glassy hulk, swooping past corner windows that jut in and out like broken teeth. This is (W)rapper, “an outrageous creative office tower”, in the words of its leasing agents, set to “reawaken the Los Angeles skyline”. It is also the bombastic tombstone of a bygone era, a carbon-guzzling monument to a time when architectural ego trumped the interests of people and planet.”

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