Click, click, and click. She scrolled down, drumming her non-mousing hand, as pictures froze and popped at slower than a snail’s pace. Definitely not rocket science, but she had places to go, things to do, people to be. Really, she had to dust her shelves, vacuum her carpet, wash summer dust from her picture window…
And she’d had the coffee—too much—so she HAD to do the things. Her neck clenched.
Before all, she had to change that doofy Facebook profile pic. And the damn thing wouldn’t load.
Finally done. She’d feel like a rock star, except duh!
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2019)
Carrot Ranch Prompt (08/01/2019): In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about a rock star. You can feature a central character or write about the feeling like a rock star. Go where the prompt leads!
Valley of the Trolls 
Good to see you around again! The coffee part was a good addition. 🙂
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It’s so hard to feel maintain a rock star presence when the coffee flows fast, the Internet slow, and center stage is housekeeping!
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Ha! Great description of life online!
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The struggle is real…
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You captured a feeling we have all had. Hate it when things won’t load and I really need to get going.
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Add coffee, and KABOOM! 😉
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Cute piece, thanks for the caffeinated smile!
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Sounds like the coffee talking.
Coffee: Now obsessively fold all the HyVee plastic shopping bags into neat little squares…and after you are done, go back to HyVee and get a hundred more to fold.
My saner self: That’s nuts.
Coffee: You need more coffee.
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Not close enough to Iowa for all that! 😉
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Ha ha ha. Whatever makes one feel like a rock star, I guess. Why judge (even oneself)? Btw, I was expecting a story about trolls at this prompt, about a star made of rock? 🙂
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Autobiographical? 😀 I can relate.
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Autobiographical avoidance… 😉
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