Reena’s Xploration Challenge #263

I have chosen words or situations for this week’s prompt from Baba Vanga’s predictions for 2023.

  • Devastating solar storm
  • Explosion in a nuclear plant
  • Human birth in laboratories
  • Alien attacks
  • Earth changing its orbit
  • Bioweapons

You need not use the words verbatim. You can use one or more of the situations as a stimulus for imagination, and base your piece on it.

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Helen looked again at her reflection in the mirror, not sure of what she saw. It seemed like there was sort of a gray cast to her skin and that just wouldn’t do. She was to be on the air in 10 minutes. Helen was the on the go reporter for CNN and had to be in any disaster type situation any time they called.

Today she received an early morning call, saying that there had been an unusual disturbance among people in a small town near the Canadian border. Since she lived in Oregon, she was the first chosen to report.

She glanced once more in the mirror and thought it must be a reflection of the light inside the CNN trailer. Once out in the sun, she forgot all about it, especially when she saw the chaos that was surrounding her.

Talking to various people, she realized no one had really known what happened, except that they woke up to a dark gray cloud, and then a sudden silence fell over the whole town.

Helen knew exactly what it was. The week before Helen had seen a report of similar events in a small town that had been determined to be under a biohazard attack.
She like many of her coworkers agreed, this was the start of Putin’s endeavor to take over world power.

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JuJoJa 12

You can keep your frosting, sprinkles and goo these are my preferred ballyhoo
plain and simple like mom made
donuts like this make my day

At least they would if I could ever find any like them 🙄

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The Actor was Cursed

Following her scripted lines, “I just can’t decide,” Sharon spoke to her fellow actor, Pete, and then strangely, started to cackle, facing the crowd. Pete’s mind boggled as he heard her strange utterance. Then her solitary scream shattered the room and several others that had gathered at the side of the stage stared. They stood in horror as Susan started clawing at her face with blood spewing from her mouth, but her devilish laugh continued. It was only the quiet woman on the opposite stage exit that was secretly smiling. Her time as Susan’s understudy was over today.

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/three-things-challenge-m205/#like-92536Your three words today are:
SOLITARY CROWD GATHER

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/rdp-wednesday-boggle/

https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/decide-2/

http://fivedotoh.com/2023/01/11/fowc-with-fandango-shattered/

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One Book More

I finally received notice this was available from my library. I found it by looking at the books narrated by one of my faves, Ray Porter. I am not disappointed. It is surprising to learn all that went on after the planes struck the towers. Probably like most, I never realized.

“The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland is a 2002 oral history of the small town of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada in the wake of the September 11 attacks written by journalist Jim DeFede It is the first book authored by DeFede.” Originally published: 2002. Author: Jim DeFede. Genre: Nonfiction. Pages: 244 pp. Wikipedia

https://onebookmore.com/2023/01/10/top-ten-tuesday-most-anticipated-books-releasing-in-the-first-half-of-2023/

dVerse Poets

For this prompt, write a poem inspired by a vision, dream, or both. If you want, you can return to Blake’s “dreams of infants” – perhaps you remember a recurring dream (or nightmare) from childhood which might inspire your poem. Or write about a more recent dream which affected you in some way. If you have ever been fortunate enough to have seen visions, don’t hold back – write about them, let them inspire your muse. I want this to be an expansive, rather than restrictive exercise, so please, take Blake’s advice: “Damn braces; Bless relaxes” (Proverbs of Hell, 1793). In other words – use any form you choose, and write whatever words you feel, so long as they are influenced by dreams and/or visions of past, present or future!

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lying beside you

my hesitant touch offered

are you really here

often the dream continues

no past true reality

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New Amazon Series

Interesting to me because my husband and friends were “oilmen”. I also like the main character/actor Iain Glen.

A group of workers on a remote Scottish oil rig are due to return to the mainland when a mysterious fog cloaks them and supernatural forces take hold. First episode date: January 6, 2023

Directed by: John Strickland; Alex Holmes Original network: Amazon Prime Video Producer: Suzanne Reid Production companies: Wild Mercury Productions; Amazon Studios Production locations: Edinburgh, Scotland

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Fandango’s Story Starter

This week’s Story Starter teaser is: ONCE HIS DREAM OF A LIFE TOGETHER WITH HER FADED AS HE REALIZED THAT HIS LOVE FOR HER WAS UNREQUITED, HE KNEW HE HAD TO …bite the bullet. It was rumored to be an expression by some doctor standing over a soldier who needs treatment without pain meds. This would definitely be one of those times. Harry didn’t actually have any bullets which was probably a good thing. He did, however, have five hundred dollars left on their joint credit card and tonight he was going to party!

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http://fivedotoh.com/2023/01/10/fandangos-story-starter-80/