Friday Fictioneers

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Sara loved antique stores, always looked for a bargain with a secreted value. Being pragmatic, knowing she would sell it for more, it was “just business”. Entering the glassware section, a grouping drew her to them. She bought them, set them up, clean and polished. After placing them on a table, they started glowing, emitting a weird green essence and incredibly, eerie music was coming from them! Sara tried to take them off to put away, but they stuck on the table. Frightened but acting quickly, Sara set a sign in front of them, “Halloween Special” free to good home.

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20 September2024

dVerse Poets Poetics

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The poem I would like you write is about the end of something: the end of a season, a relationship, a story, a letter, a journey, a dream, a life, the world, etc. You can write in any form, rhyming or not; just make sure it ends in one of the ways described below – and let us know which you chose and why.

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I chose number 5 by T.S. Eliot because I think it fits well with the USA Today:

Everyone yells their opinions

Speaking from a known dominion

Whether a podium draped in a flag

Or a cardboard box on the main drag

Our voices disappear in the throng

Some telling others they are wrong

I’m guilty of this, I speak out

I try to explain what I’m about

But no one cares

And no one dares

To object to my face

It all seems a race

To end all the old freedom bells’ that rang

“And the world ends in a whimper rather than a bang.”

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Tuesday Poetics: Endings

Truthful Tuesday 9-17-24

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Did your family move around a lot when you were younger, or did you pretty much live in one place for most of your life? What about now? Do you move around frequently or have you lived in the same place for quite a while?

I moved at 3 to a dairy farm and then at 15 to a small apartment in town, then a boarding house, apartment, house and more houses and then two apartments. I lived in Vermont, New Hampshire, Texas, Colorado, Texas, Texas, Colorado, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming.☺️

Truthful Tuesday: September 17th, 2024

SYW 9-16-24

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Here are this week’s questions:

1.  Do you believe in Love at First Sight? Definitely ❤️


2.  How did you meet your partner? (I know I have asked this before) I worked at USACRREL and he was a GI there.


Alternative question for my single readers:
Do you live alone or do you have a pet for company? I do live alone, widowed in 2013 and no pets.


3.  How long have you been a couple?
Alternative question: how old is your pet?


4.  Did you marry in a church or other religious place, or somewhere else? We married in 1966 in a small church, reception in basement😀


Alternative question: have you had more than one pet at a time? When our kids were little we had three inside cats and two outside dogs.

Gratitude: I am grateful today I had a trip to WM for groceries, but bought too many snack items and fixed a Taylor Swift book display that some weirdos had turned backwards and put Bibles in front of them all 🙄😳😡🤯🫤

Share Your World 16th September