Author: showtunessal
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Can you tell a story in Jo & Tom #13
Can you tell a story 31 words using the following words in it somewhere: “I don’t believe in fairy tales. Santa never comes down the chimney. Naughty or nice. You left and I knew you’d never come back for me. The sparkle would fade.”
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Look Up
In my mind, I have been carrying confusion, grief, and anger. I just haven’t felt like I was on the right path. I have been on the “struggle bus” some may say. Struggling with my family, struggling with my heart, struggling with the world’s deterioration of good and defining good, struggling with death, and struggling…
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Can you tell a story in 80 words Jo and Tom #12
Jo, you look like you are a million miles away.” Centuries away in the video reel in my mind, 1969, thought Jo. “This creepy museum and I feel ridiculous in this tight dress, red pumps, and red lips. Looking like a beached mermaid, I’m sorry.” “I just found you. You should have been a special…
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Can you tell a story in 54 words Jo and Tom #11
Thinking now of gestational acne rolling down HWY 41, Jo turned the radio on; the song was “Spaceman” by Harry Nilsson. Would Tom be happy? Would he want to come home? His husky voice rejoiced leaving his alcoholic, abusive father and sharecropper shack. No more picking wheelbarrows full of lettuce 12 hours a day.
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Can you tell a story in 40 words Jo and Tom #10
I tell no one, especially Tom. I loved Tom too much to make a puddle of his life. Knapsack, tip money, and favorite bonsai, we (baby and me) headed toward the interstate in my “Fishbowl,” my 1977 yellow Plymouth Pacer.
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Women and Men of Good Will
In my mind, I have been so busy with a head full of dreams. Dreams of rescuing children suffering in an America full of resources, but failing to clothe, feed, shelter the most vulnerable and valuable in our society, the widows (elderly) and orphans (from neglect from addiction not just substances but also the ego…
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Can you tell a story in 61 words using the following words in it somewhere: #9 Jo and Tom
I remembered all too well. The camera that recorded our senior trip. The album is full of memories. Ice-skating and sharing a wedge salad at Bravette’s, and we made love riding the ‘L’ train around the city. Frightened, I knew you were pulling away into the world. That was two months ago. He was leaving…
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Can you tell a story in 77 words using the following words in it somewhere: Tom and Jo #8
Insides melting like a marshmallow on a spire over fire, she couldn’t hide her despair. “Jo, don’t get wishy-washy on me. This is our way out of Rockville. I made the roster. I am guaranteed to soar like an eagle. Let’s see the world! Please Josie. All our lives we’ve been impounded in this one…
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Can you tell a story in 46 words…Tom and Jo #7
It’s almost Halloween! Before you don your witches’ hats and grab those broomsticks, here’s a new story challenge for you. Can you tell a story in 46 words using the following words in it somewhere: As a high school senior, Tom was drafted by the government as a special agent after taking the ASVAB test.…
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Can you tell a story in 54 words #6
Can you tell a story in 54 words using the following words in it somewhere: Tom’s aftershave turned her reverie back to reality. Here she was standing beside her first love on a date 30 years later when he left her at the train station crying like a banshee as the train zipped away. She…
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