“Stepping off the ferry and onto the island for the first time in decades, Arthur Parnassus thought he’d burst into flames then and there.”
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This a sequel to “The House in the Cerulean Sea”.
“Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous children who live there.”
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First Line Friday: September 20, 2024 📚💞
Your final three words for this week are:
ASSURE
LIE~
DECEIVE
Lovers may come and go
Lie, deceive, it’s all a show
Especially assured when in the glow
Of a certified gigolo !
Three Things Challenge #M823
Allergic to Nuts
Jim thought it a conspiracy—the ticket looked fake, and grabbed a seat in the back for quick exit. When the speaker drew a huge walnut on the chalkboard, he ran!
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Can You Tell A Story In…
Image by ubereats.com
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Get to Know You #35
Autumn leaves are now coming
Colors vibrant seen
Red and gold the mean
Cool breezes cause the summons
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Vegetable crops are humming
Green stocks high with corn
Tattered scarecrows forlorn
Autumn leaves are now coming
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Aspen trees yellow as lemons
Wavering sun drenched hues
Leaves glitter, an autumn muse
Cool breezes cause the summons
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Autumn leaves are now coming
Spectacular colors the news
Cool breezes cause the summons.
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Poetry Form: Villonnet
I looked over all of this island, and I just felt sad. This had been my dream, I had worked for all my life to be in this place, in this life. I had dreamed and hoped, and wished for this, and every workplace I had this poster hung up to inspire me, make me work harder, make me realize this was a goal I could achieve.
And now I’m here. I’m here sitting, looking out over the dream I had, but there is only one problem. I’m alone. I’m sitting here on my balcony, beautiful scenery in front of me, beautiful warm breezes, everything I had dreamed of. So why am I sad? Why, after all the years of working so hard to be here do I feel it was all in vain?
Because none of this means anything without a person to share it with, a lover, a wife, a child. I worked so hard in my life I never worked to achieve what was really important, a family, a woman to share it with. So all of this beauty that I’m surrounded with really means nothing at all.
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Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 09/17/2024
“The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare—real characters shown in credits…Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, is an action-comedy that tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author Ian Fleming. The top-secret combat unit, composed of a motley crew of rogues and mavericks, goes on a daring mission against the Nazis using entirely unconventional and utterly “ungentlemanly” fighting techniques. Ultimately their audacious approach changed the course of the war and laid the foundation for the British SAS and modern Black Ops warfare.
If you don’t want it to spoil
Immediately wrap it in foil
It doesn’t cause much of a toil
It’s also good to use when you broil
Or catching drips when something boils
It’s also a shiny material, but tougher than voile.
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It’s Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Link Up!
This week’s Story Starter teaser is:
Alan suddenly realized that he might be alone for the rest of his life. He blamed it on that new tanning technique he found on YouTube. It supposedly guaranteed you would only use it once and never have to tan again. He daubed it on liberally, and just as the ad predicted, his skin started to darken. The next morning he woke up to find it was so dark, he no longer looked like himself. He was scared. Looking in the mirror he looked black, no longer the white skinned man he knew himself to be. He turned on the shower to hot and scrubbed himself raw, but the color was permanent. How could he go hang out with his white supremacist friends, or be in the Trump rally’s? How could he be accepted at work where all the people were white? He had no idea how to act, he had no black friends or Hispanic or other races? He was a “dyed in the wool” white man! He picked up the bottle of tanning lotion to read the directions and saw: “Warning, do not use if you are a racist.”
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http://mymindmappings.com/2024/09/17/fandangos-story-starter-167/
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