“So, you think if I hop there, launch to the next one over, and make that final leap, it’ll take me across the water, fast enough and close enough to be safe?”
“No, first you launch from here to there, do a quick hop to that other one, and run to the end of that pad for your final leap that gets you to the other side — guaranteed — without waking up Al!”
“You’re sure about this?”
“That’s the theory,” the second one responded with a wide-mouthed smile.
Crickets sawed their legs in the heavy, humid afternoon sun as the first frog looked over the proposed pathway, past the hungry, dozing alligator, who lifted one heavy lid halfway.
First frog gave number two the side eye, sat back on his haunches, and countered, “Then you go first, since you’re so sure.”
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2021)
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 “THEORY”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
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: THEORY
Valley of the Trolls 
That side eye said a lot! Well done.
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😊
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Your Six is quite smile inducing, Liz 🙂 Thoroughly engaging story!
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Thank you!
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lol
nicely turned Six
(I read for pleasure and for tips and technique, trying to figure out ‘how they did that’ is very much a part of what I get out of this bloghop)
Re-reading now, as your characters kept our attention so well, the surprise ending was a surprise.
nice
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Glad to hear it! Thsnks!
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Clever, Liz. Left me with a frog in my throat. 😉
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(Offers a Ricola…)
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Thanks. Had to look up Ricola 🙂
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First frog wasn’t born yesterday…… And I liked this!
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That’s how he got to be First Frog…and keep the title. 😉
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Second Frog might be a bit of a bully frog. Amidst the bantering between the frogs I love the detail of the crickets playing the background music.
Good fun, well done!
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And Al waits patiently for one or the other to hop to it!
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I totally love this!
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That’s great. Thanks Zelda! ❤
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You’re SO welcome! ❤
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great job as always good use of the cue and I agree with frank!
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Yay! Thanks, UP!
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Absolutely loved this! Bravo! (And I know a lot of frogs.) HeHe.
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Thank you, Susan!
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I like he ending letting the one with the theory go first.
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