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“Kava-No”
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Patent Pending – Flash Fiction
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This week’s photo prompt is provided by Yinglan. Thank you Yinglan! (I’ve used part of your name in my story Lan)
Patent Pending – A Love Story
“I think I’ve got it!” Heng exclaimed. He took his wife’s arm and led her into his workshop.
Lan, his wife, had been through this many times before. Heng’s inventions. She smiled and let him lead her.
There she saw a milk carton with an antennae sticking out of it. “What is this, Heng?” she asked.
“The Moo-zic!” Heng replied. He flicked a switch on the side of the carton.
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(w/c 75)
Waiting On Pins & Needles….
with women and young girls everywhere.
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Single, White, Male
Single, white, Southern male…I wonder why? Here is the face of the good ole boy fraternity: (Nice teeth – for a horse’s arse)
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When We Make A Footprint – A Poem
Time again for Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers. Thank you, PJ, for sponsoring this and for all of your hard work on our behalf. Please follow lil froggy for more stories.
This week’s photo prompt is provided by Yarnspinnerr.
This isn’t really long enough 😦
When We Make A Footprint
When you’ve walked in my shoes then
tell me not to hide
tell me about shame
tell me to remember
to forget.
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‘Speak Softly & Carry A Big Stick’
As some of you know, for the past several years I’ve been recovering from a series of bone fractures. Four years healing, now, from my original fall.
So…you may also know that I use a big walking stick. It’s nothing that I want to use, but something I promised my husband I would and so I do.
I was using it, yesterday, while attending one of my many medical appointments – that every day stuff I don’t put here… anyways, I was using it then when I over heard the following conversation:
The Waiting Room After Kavanaugh/Ford Hearings
An elderly male patient, his caregiver, myself, my friend, and others were seated in the waiting room of a medical office.
The elderly male patient checks himself in and takes a seat next to his caregiver and promptly says: I want to talk about what’s been happening in the news this week about this Kavanaugh thing.
The caregiver says to the elderly patient: I just want you to know that we had easy peasy girls like that in my high school, too. (More public locker room talk, I suppose? Thanks, Pres. Trump.)
My friend, myself and another woman look at each other and raise our eyebrows and roll our eyes.
OMG! I clutched my cane and was only held back by the memory of my first husband’s voice – after I’d shot the bird out of the car window at some idiot driver – telling me he would not come to claim my body if I were to be killed shooting the bird.
So…when I left the room, I went out of my way to avoid the caretaker.
But 😛 I forgot my cane in the doctor’s exam room and had to return for it. Then I did pass by that caretaker. He didn’t move his feet out of the way so I or anyone else could pass. I smiled at him, slightly lifted my cane, and placed it on the floor on the other side of his feet. Ever so sweetly, of course, though I did feel goaded.
Just hours before, I’d been hoping that the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings would open the way for teenagers to talk with their parents more about what doesn’t have to be a right of passage into adulthood.
I still hope for this. And I believe, if one is being vetted for the highest court in our land, one’s past actions – and how one speaks to them – would matter.
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