image link Happy Sunday to All. A short one today. Gizmo the kitten approached her snack as an act of espionage, crouching, trying to dip low enough behind the shoes to remain unseen. What gave her away was her curse of a twitchy tail. It was temporary, but the movement caught the attention of the…
Category: Word of the Day Challenge
#MM Saturday Mix – Unique Personality, 29 June 2019, FOWC, WoD, and 3 Things –Guirnalda des Petunias
Crystal Clear River in Bonito, Brazil, flowed through paradise with the graceful movement of a ballerina. The village leaders, who were proud of their piece of heaven on earth, proposed the first fiesta in 1993. They named it Guirnalda des Petunias, or Garland of Petunias for the petunias that grew wild along the edges of…
50 Word Thursday — A Possum’s Tale
Image by Prawny from Pixabay Bobo the Clown was very sad because his pet opossum, Huckabee, was sick. Huckabee refused to eat, and for a possum food is their world, so Bobo was worried. The circus was in Palm Beach for a week, then the troupe was shutting down for vacation. Bobo had plans to…
Topping the Charts
image link Johnny was serving his time in the military with honor. He’d left Jeannie, his sweetheart, back home. The two exchanged frequent letters that were filled with the plans they had for marriage, home, children, career when Johnny came home. Two years into his three-year commitment, Johnny received a letter that started, “Dear John,”…
Wait
image link From the attic, the young girl watched the elderly German couple tend their garden. She awakened each morning to the sound of the sprinklers spraying the plants. Over the weeks she watched the watermelons grow from egg-sized to plate-sized to ever-larger. The old man pulled weeds in the mornings and the old woman…
Amos Moses
Mrs. Sweet had been teaching kindergarten for thirty years, and in all of those thirty years, she had never come across a more disruptive and dedicated-to-violence child as Amos Moses. Mrs. Sweet would watch Amos out of her room’s window in the morning before school opened. Amos would throw pea-sized pebbles that the playground was…
Kwaang
Harrison pressed the buzzer at the night dry cleaners and a voice came over the intercom, “Pick-up or drop-off?” “Drop-off” “Number of items and how many pair of pants?” “17 and 7” A buzzer sounded and Harrison entered the small shop. The disembodied voice over the intercom belonged to a small, wrinkled, bald man who…
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