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Weekend Writing Prompt #356 – Froward
Welcome to the Saturday Mix – Story Starter, 23 March 2024!
You will be given a sentence to start off your response. It is your choice whether you write using poetry or prose.
Your story starter for this week is:
“I told you not to come!” She shouted at the tall muscular man entering the ballroom. He just smiled and signaled his companion to start the music. The woman Julia, turned red as her societal uptown reputation was about to be smeared.
Julia had tried to keep her previous life behind her, a secret, and here tonight, at her engagement party, the last person she wanted to see was Joe. She and Joe used to be an R rated act at a club probably never attended by the current party guests.
Joe ignored her, started undulating to the music and captured everyone’s attention.
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Story Starter – Saturday Mix, 23 March 2024
Stream of Consciousness Saturday is the brainchild of author Linda G. Hill. Every Friday, Linda provides her followers with an inspiring blogger’s prompt. It can be a word or words and sometimes bonus points are involved (my favorite). Linda asks us to write without editing, other than correcting spelling errors.
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I don’t have many good memories of a bedroom I was practically living in when I was in very poor health. Some wonderful ones peek through to remind me of watching Barbie and other movies on a laptop on my bed surrounded by grandkids. I always had air popped corn, Oreos and rice pudding cups at the ready. Those were precious moments I’m happy to have preserved in my old brain.
Over a decade later I am much healthier and watching those little ones excel in their lives as adults. It’s a grandparent thing I hope everyone gets to enjoy.
Basketball and award banquets over and today is the second girls’ V soccer match of the season and I watch alone, not on a laptop, but iPad or tv. I watch with mixed emotions as time surely is fleeting and I take in every moment.
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This is from March 1, 2017:
“He’s touching me!”
“I am not, it’s Harry, he touches everybody.”
“You’re pushing me, I’m going to fall off!”
“Well if you fall off, just join those wimpy guys inside.”
“Hey, we’re not wimps, it’s warm in here.”
“Charlie, keep your paws to yourself!”
“Uh, sorry, Kate, it’s just so crowded up here.”
“Joe, sweetie, your whiskers are tickling my nose, you’re so cute.”
“Shelly, I just love your little beady eyes, dear.”
Crowding to the right from Whitey and his brother Biggie.
“Okay everybody off to the left. Whitey’s crowding as usual.”
Tiny pops up, big ears showing. “Hey, look out there! Is it cheese? I think it’s cheese! Come on guys, let’s check it out!”
So goes a day in the life of mice.
Fandango’s Flashback Friday — March 22nd
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Tragedy unexpected
Rising from drink
Innocence destroyed
Stirring emotions
Abandoned trust
Turmoil felt
Nuance gone
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Iintrigue manifests
Seduction begins
Obstacles entangled
Love’s infection
Death the winner
Emptiness for all
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W3 Prompt #99: Wea’ve Written Weekly
The saying goes “opposites attract”. I can agree with that to a certain point and then the initial magnetism starts to wear like rust on a car when left out in bad weather. Slowly the rust increases and the body ruins. Shiny bright attraction is the start but it takes careful care, attention and maintenance to keep something “as good as new”.
Writer’s Workshop Prompts For March 21, 2024
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Brilliant ideas have a benefactor
An artist’s much needed reactor
Giving rewards for their talent
How artists perform
And help them move toward
A deserved award.
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“The eccentric British poet and landscape gardener Edward James was one of the most important patrons of Surrealist art in the twentieth century. He provided financial support to artists such as Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Leonor Fini, and René Magritte during the 1930s and 1940s and assembled one of the earliest and most significant collections of Surrealism outside of France.”
“Salvador Dalí introduced James to René Magritte, who stayed with him for a summer in London. The Belgian artist completed a series of paintings for James’s Vogue Regency dining room in Wimpole Street, which were to be displayed hidden behind mirrors with lunettes by Boucher depicting the four seasons, and revealed only when illuminated from within. The Pleasure Principle (1937), shows James straight on, but he is no less visible, his head obscured by a bright light. At this time, James was financing the Surrealist publication “Minotaure”.”
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This week’s Story Starter teaser is:
Allison arrived home to discover, propped up against her front door, a mysterious package addressed to her but with no return address. She opened her door and took the package inside. She was used to getting packages and knew how to open them…in the basement where she had a sound and bomb proof room. The room was equipped with robot arms so she could place the package and then leave it. Then she would use the robotic hands to carefully open the parcel. On occasion she was saved by this method. Working for the Super Secret Spy Service was always interesting.
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Fandango’s Story Starter #141
The Bag Lady 
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