The challenge? Write a story in 6 sentences, no more & no less, and if you’d like, share your creation or just visit and comment on others’ ideas, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Denise. The prompt is “PLOW”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
Norm leaned back in the truck’s cab as he fired up his snowplow in the February pre-dawn, the scent of morning coffee, ham, eggs, and pancakes fragrant in his clouds of exhalations. He hadn’t brushed his teeth after the sumptuous breakfast that Dee had prepared, instead rinsing his mouth with the dregs of coffee that she would have insisted on throwing on her garden for her spring flowers, sighing in relief that this particular source of reprimand was no longer an issue.
He wondered why he always attracted the nutters from the farmers-only online dating sites.
Lowering the shovel, he slowly moved forward and gently pushed it through the half foot of snow, then scooped and lifted, driving forward through the continuing thick sheets of flakes, to the sinkhole at the edge of his back property. The shovel tipped and dropped its payload into the deep pit, the repository of old refrigerators, wrecked cars, ruined mattresses, and other relationships that didn’t quite work out.
He’d update his dating profile tonight; the right woman had to be out there for him, somewhere.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2021)
Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Return here, link your post Wednesday night through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 😀
PROMPT WORD: PLOW
I chose to follow the quote, by Alistair Cross, included in the prompt reveal, for this one: “I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience because terror reduces all of us to our most authentic forms.”
Valley of the Trolls 
Just what DID he want for breakfast? Well executed story.
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It goes a bit deeper than the runniness of the eggs… 😉
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“I do not like green eggs and ham…” into the hole you go 😮
Cool Six. Agree with Clark about that winning line – it rocks!
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Dr Seuss, on the loose? 😳😂😂
Heavens forfend!
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😁😁
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At least he didn’t scoop up bodies in the hole. I guess that comes later!
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Brilliant and the comments made me chuckle too.
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Yet another examples of the perils of online dating…..yikes!
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I’m with Clark–an enviable line if I ever heard one–WOW.
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(Bows, blushing) Thank you!
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You’re truly welcome.
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uh oh. a serial killer still looking for the right one. well written.
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You nailed it!
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“…old refrigerators, wrecked cars, ruined mattresses, and other relationships that didn’t quite work out.”
My choice for ‘I wish I’d written that’ award for this week’s Six Sentence Story.
‘cellent Six
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I’m gobsmacked! Thank you!
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Norm sounds like quite the character. It makes me wonder about the women he is attracting.
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Who’s the real nutter(s) there, eh?
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Whoa! Great twist, Liz 🙂
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Thanks, Chris!
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That’s an interesting idea about brushing one’s teeth on the dregs of coffee. I hope Dee doesn’t end up in that sinkhole.
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Yikes! Heavy equipment comes in quite handy sometimes, eh? 😆
Nicely done Liz. Very visual and great set up.
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I just had to go with the creepy Six…Lol!
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Glad you did!
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😂
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Man. She shouldn’t have cooked him eggs.
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Must’ve been the egg that cracked the camel’s back.
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