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Ping

Love & Affection Challenge - Karma's My Mom

Treat your girlfriend well but always treat your dog better...

It was hot. I was late. She’d be ticked. I raced home. KFC rode shot. Cold beer awaited. She didn’t even greet me. I quickly showered, changed to shorts, turned on CNN, sat in comfort, and ate my chicken. The dog didn’t whine, she only stared. “Mine, go away,” I said and offered her none. She left, tail between her legs, but vowed revenge. I then bit and swallowed, but something...Read On

Added: 26 Feb 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 214 | Tags: angry dog  angry girlfriend  hungry guy  karma humour   | 3 Comments

maryruth

To love and dream

Taking the time to know Things are not always as first thought Lips speaking without words Heat in the strength of arms Eyes burning with knowledge The joining of two That become one Twinkling stars smiling In the darkness Nothing can separate Nor come between The strength to love and   See with your heart and mind Desire without sight or sound Only to love and dream      ...Read On

Added: 26 Feb 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 66 | Tags: feelings     | 3 Comments

LauraDanielle

Pizza Identity

I was sitting inside at a table with a few children, and we were doing puzzles. It was so hot that we, the teachers, had made the executive decision to bring the kids inside and just chill out. We had Netflix for kids on the TV and some of the children were sitting on the mat and watching. Three of them, actually, had fallen asleep, all in the same position, all facing the same...Read On

Added: 22 Feb 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 306 | Tags: daycare  kids  teaching  pizza  identity  funny   | 6 Comments

DenimAngel

Love&Affection Challenge ~ Puppy Love

Pets love us unconditionally

Pets complete our families. We had a tradition to always rescue animals from the shelter or donate food to the shelter.  We liked to help people keep their family pets when they were down on their luck. We would give them pet food or do whatever we could to help. We would even pet-sit so they wouldn't have to leave the pet alone for hospital stays or if they went on vacation.   We...Read On

Added: 21 Feb 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 332 | Tags: love&affection  puppy  love   | 9 Comments

MereShadow online

Chill Story in a Warmer Clime

We must never forget

THE WINTER OF 1946-47 was long and cold in northern Montana. On Christmas Day my father pulled me on my brand-new sled to a neighbor's house, where we borrowed a load of firewood that we stacked on our back porch. I seem to remember that the thermometer read --55 that day, but childhood memories are notoriously suspect. Nonetheless, it was very cold. Flathead Lake froze so thick people...Read On

Added: 17 Feb 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 1,251 | Tags: israel  palestine  peace  divest  likud  holocaust   | 1 Comment

maryruth

Flames

A desire so deep Knowing the hunger can only be calmed As flames burn higher The burning deepens Until the soul is smothering The only thoughts of fire And how the flames control...Read On

Added: 13 Feb 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 33 | Tags: desire   | 3 Comments

Adrienne

Universal Shredder

This shredder is actually a long- term friend and bandmate of mine named Bruce.  He doesn’t describe himself as a shredder but rather a good hack. I have used artistic license to call him a shredder instead because it is not so complimentary to call someone a hack. He has played in numerous alternative campus rock pop-punk bands. Once, at Christmas time, his band was asked to play a...Read On

Added: 01 Feb 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 4.5 | Words: 178 | Tags: guitarist  christmas  halloween  livemusic  adrienne   | 1 Comment

Dreamcatcher

Love & Affection Challenge - 1 Hour Person

Inspired by something seen or heard but can’t remember where or when. Valentine’s Day is a prehistoric day of celebration monopolized and monetized by Hallmark. So much so that presumably intelligent humans are willing to spend vast amounts of time and money shuffling and stuffing Valentine cards in display case slots surrounded by hair care products and tweezers. Each looking for that...Read On

Added: 31 Jan 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 259 | Tags: love&affection   | 7 Comments

Ping

Everybody’s Bitchin’ ‘bout Somethin’

Like most things, it all started when I got cut off on the way to Costco...

Added: 31 Jan 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 292 | Tags: troubles  complaints  frustration  anxiety  stresses  irony  sarcasm   | 7 Comments

Adrienne

A New Spark

A NEW SPARK I wonder if you feel anything like I do.  Do you long for the past, hate the present and fear the future? Has your heart been ripped up through your throat and straight out of your head up to the sky. You might feel something like this But do you also know that someday a new spark will start another fire?...Read On

Added: 19 Jan 2020 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 64 | Tags: heartbreak  adrienne  spark  newbeginning   | 4 Comments

redwriter

Christmas mix

Random thoughts on Christmas

All the images of Christmas past run together like the mix for some sumptuous fruit cake, from which the crumbs will scatter memories, trivial and momentous, garnished by the flow of years. Each crumb falling, out of any natural sequence, so that youth overrides childhood, middle-age falls ahead of youth. Yet childhood remains forever the most crystal-clear of Christmas images, and...Read On

Added: 21 Dec 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 377 | Tags: lights  gifts  cake  turkey   | 2 Comments

Adrienne

My Pseudonym

How I got a nickname

Added: 16 Dec 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 91 | Tags: names     | 3 Comments

rune

In The Beginning

A life experience that will happen only in my dreams ...

Fifteen to two hundred million of them swim every time. Only the strongest amongst them will survive to reach their peak destination. Their three days lifespan is spent looking for their one and only life partner that only lives for forty-eight hours till it may be reborn again the following month of their life cycle. If they get lucky they meet and join together. The union of two...Read On

Added: 24 Nov 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 215 | Tags: thinking  rune   | 6 Comments

Survivor

Remembrance Challenge: Camp Funston

They also served

In March 1918, some of the first recorded American cases of what became a worldwide influenza epidemic, also known as "Spanish flu", were reported at Camp Funston. The 1918 influenza pandemic, usually set as January 1918 up to December 1920, was an unusually deadly flu epidemic. It infected 500 million people around the world. Probably 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million...Read On

Added: 11 Nov 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 805 | Tags: musings  camp funston  fort riley  spanish flu  world war i   | 11 Comments

redwriter

Remembrance Challenge: Lest We Forget

Thoughts at a memorial

On Ploegsteert memorial in Belgium, no faces show. Only names carved on slabs Along curved walls of the imposing colonnade Impressive, the stone lions that guard. Eleven thousand names of the multi-ranked Casualties of war, who share this dubious banner NO KNOWN GRAVE. Consider these lives snatched into oblivion Ripped out of all existence, Yet, three kilometres north lies Ypres ...Read On

Added: 09 Nov 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 98 | Tags: memorial  ypres  grave  remembrance   | 7 Comments

Adagio

Stained A Little

She was my best friend. As dear to me as a shadow. A shadow named Granny who visited me on occasions, when I was sad and lonely. She was small in stature but big in heart. But often she cried when I was down with the blues. Yet! She was no one's fool. She knew the words she spoke sounded as if she were country folk. But she was humble as pumpkin pie out of season. Raising a family on...Read On

Added: 26 Oct 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 142 | Tags: memories   | 2 Comments

maryruth

Minutes

A few minutes Sixty seconds times three Moments in time  Just for me To feel and believe To know and own Moments in time  Sixty seconds times three To share All my own  All for me...Read On

Added: 26 Oct 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 36 | Tags: minutes time   | 6 Comments

Adagio

Ain't Average

I wasn't average. I was told that I had the intelligence of an eraser. Dale Earnhardt was my hero.  I was born with a deformity that caused my knuckles to drag the ground and I craved bananas. Later on, in life, I had a bit-part in a Tarzan movie that was filmed in Terre Haute, Indiana. Granny wasn't too keen on crossing the Mason and Dixie line to do it.  I won a can of Alpo dog food for...Read On

Added: 24 Oct 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 394 | Tags: mussings   | 1 Comment

Adagio

Dear Grandson

Dear Grandson: While I am here in detox (prison) help your grandpa with the still and don't let him blow things up. If you can, scraped up enough money to get his dentures out of hock. If there is any leftover change, get him a gift card for a new tattoo. Perhaps " the dancing monkeys" like I have on my buttocks.   Just remember that I love you, even though you were dropped from an anvil on...Read On

Added: 22 Oct 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 214 | Tags: humor   | 2 Comments

Adagio

Some Kind

I remember the days of September, so many dreams ago. When the winds began to whistle and the leaves turned brown, before touching the ground. Then grandpa making them mulch for the winter garden of some kind of peas.  It was actually a zephyr. But in my mind it was "The Little Engine That Could," steaming down a railroad track, burning wood, as I heard granny in the kitchen boiling...Read On

Added: 18 Oct 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 136 | Tags: musings   | 1 Comment

ladysharon

Back to School Challenge: Ghosts of the Past and Soon to Come

Back when I was young and blissfully ignorant, I loved the leading up and the first week of school. I would get my birthday money from my great-aunt in Ohio for my birthday and used that to buy my school supplies. The smell of opening up a fresh pack of notebook paper and putting it in my binder is euphoric. Don't get me started on the book bags. The one I picked out had to fit my books and...Read On

Added: 03 Oct 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 585 | Tags: challenge  back to school  elementary school  high school  college  future school days   | 6 Comments

GenlyAryl

Erase

What would you do if you can suddenly have all your bad memories wiped out?

Added: 30 Sep 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 0 | Words: 591 | Tags: science  scientific question  general  question  existence  

rune

In My Dream

a series of images...

In my dreams, surrounded by luscious green big old forest trees. A light passing through in each every gap of the leaves from a bright full moon above. Flickering lights from fireflies everywhere below. A crow squawking from somewhere afar. A lake in the middle of the forest, covered by a thick mist with cold still air. A snake with its tongue out hissing while slowly crawling into the...Read On

Added: 28 Sep 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 100 | Tags: thinking  rune   | 14 Comments

AnnaMayZing

Back to school Challenge: Class Distinction.

“Four inches, Morrison! You know the rule, what should it be?”

“Morrison!” “Yes, Sister?” “Your skirt is too short. Kneel on the desk!” Sister Bernadette, The Carmelite Nun who was head of discipline and religious studies for the girls of St. Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic High School, tapped the desk in front of me with her wooden ruler. Obediently, I climbed onto my chair and knelt upon the flat wooden surface of the desk as commanded. Without...Read On

Added: 25 Sep 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 4.91 | Words: 542 | Tags: backtoschool   | 14 Comments

henrietta_fielding

Back To School Challenge: In The Pool

Back to school can mean different things, depending on circumstances...

At our local swimming pool, you can clearly perceive the pattern of the school year, especially during the holidays. It gets markedly busier at half terms and the Easter break and even at Christmas (if parents really don’t know what to do with their children on a bad day weather-wise, having steadily worked through all the seasonal movies in the nearby multiplex)! These are brief flurries...Read On

Added: 21 Sep 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 623 | Tags: backtoschool  humour  seasons  swimming pool   | 12 Comments

Dreamcatcher

Quest

At some point there will come a time. In a moment not of your choosing. You’ll know when. It was all borrowed time anyway. On loan, never to be owned. The path will grow more narrow. The light will grow dimmer. A soul once uplifting, now heavy and held hostage. Fear is just a lack of information. Your senses seek familiarity. The smell of fresh-cut grass on a Sunday afternoon. ...Read On

Added: 17 Sep 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 122 | Tags: life   | 6 Comments

Molly

And I Left

I couldn't bring myself to ask.

The bar was too noisy and people stood shoulder to shoulder. They were all vying for a place at the bar. Music filled the air and it mingled with the laughter and drunken ramblings of its patrons.  I first spotted him as he entered the bar. His black hair was ruffled and his shoulders were hunkered in. The collar of his shabby, oversized peacoat was pulled up so high his face was...Read On

Added: 17 Sep 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 674 | Tags: curiosity  bar  sadness  dismissing   | 16 Comments

elizabethblack

Back to School Challenge: High School Disaster Averted

The things that are done "for your own good"

  High school is starting and I should be so excited.  I am going to high school and my expectations are over the moon.  Maybe just a little nervous ‘cause there will be so many students and teachers there I haven’t met.  I don't know if any of my friends will be in my classes. Makes me nervous to have all new people. It still feels warm, but knowing the cooler autumn weather is just...Read On

Added: 16 Sep 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 593 | Tags: backtoschool  teen  school  humor   | 26 Comments

Dreamcatcher

Back to School Challenge - Viewmaster Memories

Click-kuck Back-to-school 1st grade: A 6-year-old boy sitting on a desk. His shoes made of raggedy torn canvas as most play shoes were back then. Indiana snow shin-deep walking to school. A teacher calling him to the front of the class. Everyone laughing as she removed his wet shoes and socks and rubbed his feet to get them warm. He felt so ashamed and hated her that day. Only many...Read On

Added: 11 Sep 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 474 | Tags: backtoschool   | 12 Comments

LauraDanielle

Thomas Is A Tank Engine

I was sitting at the messy play table, with some freshly made playdough. I had the kids helping me roll it out and add colour to it. I had the usual mini rolling pins and cookie cutters out that my helpers were using.  "My Nana is picking me up today," T said excitedly. "I'm going to stay at their farm." "My mummy is picking me up today," C replied. The two besties happily chatted...Read On

Added: 03 Sep 2019 | Category: Musings | Avg Score: 5 | Words: 305 | Tags: kids  daycare  teaching  playdough  funny  musings   | 11 Comments