The Bag Lady

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/wordle-318/

Starring Ben Afleck showing on prime now is an excellent story. You might need kleenex…

Jack Cunningham was a high school basketball superstar who suddenly walked away from the game for unknown reasons. Years later, he’s now stuck in a meaningless job and struggling with alcoholism – the very thing that ruined his marriage and his hope for a better life. But Jack soon gets a shot at redemption when he becomes the basketball coach for his alma mater, a programme that has fallen on hard times since his teenage glory days. Initial release: March 1, 2020

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http://fivedotoh.com/2023/04/17/fandangos-flash-fiction-challenge-215/

Like an old padlock, rusty and dirty from disuse, my heart hangs about useless in a body that used to be as vibrant and new like the shiny steel fence. The fence it locked had put up with a lot of use and remained steady and strong for seventy years. It endured and provided protection its entire life. The lock was added when the fence was cut and a gate installed. Only one person had a key to the lock and after his time was up the lock was never opened again. So here it sits, worn, encasing new life and possibly a new key will come to open it and it will live again.

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This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

I CROUCHED BEHIND THE CAR, TRYING NOT TO MAKE A SOUND… and of course my wife blurts out “Harry! Where are you?” I kept down low because I didn’t want the owner of a truck to see me. I lost control of my grocery cart and it sideswiped what looked like a brand new truck. The accident left an obvious nick in the otherwise flawless paint and sort of a sliding swipe till it came to a stop. “Harry! Where did you go? I don’t have the keys!” My unintentional reply was not well thought out: “shut up Mildred!” The worst thing I could have said, of course because she would reply loudly. I saw a big guy with a million muscles approach the truck. I kept hiding and he didn’t see the scratch. I almost crawled into my car and we left the parking lot in a hurry.

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O for Ogres. Ogres are featured in folktales from all around the world, and though the word is of French origin, the creature itself is derived from the man-eating ancient Etruscan god Orcus. You might know ogres from Shrek, but Shrek is not your typical ogre. Ogres are usually large, tall, and strong with plenty of hair and a huge appetite. They are depicted as either dull and dim-witted.

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I am grateful for having a loving family and good health.

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N for nguruvilu originating from the ethnic religion of the Mapuche, found in Chile. It is a river-dwelling creature and looks much like a strange fox, with a long body, similar to a snake, and a long tail with fingernails that it uses like claws. It’s a dangerous water-being beast and the cause of dangerous whirlpools which kill people who try to cross rivers. The creatures make the water shallow on either ford, to encourage people to try to cross it making it seem safe. However, the only safe way of crossing a river with a nguruvilu is by boat.

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https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-258/

Robert Plant wrote the lyrics, which were a response to critics who claimed their previous album, Led Zeppelin III, wasn’t really rock and roll. Led Zeppelin III had more of an acoustic folk sound, and Plant wanted to prove they could still rock out.

This was the first Led Zeppelin song used in a commercial. Cadillac used it to kick off a new advertising campaign in 2002 with the tagline “Breakthrough.” The company was going for a hip, new image, since their audience was slowly dying off. The spots aired for the first time on the Super Bowl, and sales rose 16% the next year.

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