The challenge? Write a story in 6 sentences, no more & no less, and if you’d like, share your own creation or just visit and comment on others’ ideas, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Denise. The prompt is “GRID”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
“A grid?” She looked out over the expanse of black, freshly-tilled dirt, steam rising as the sun rolled across and heated what she had so rapturously gone over with her rototiller earlier that morning.
“A grid,” he answered, sighing as he continued, “Lady Peabody wants everything evenly-spaced, to match the red and black checkerboard pattern of the patio.” He jerked his thumb to the space just behind them and the mansion just beyond that.
“Does she know that the roses are going to grow and bloom every which way in this perfect soil, water and sunshine, and blow up her carefully controlled plan?”
“No, but she’s new at being a lady,” he said, and rolling his eyes, added “I see a lot of maintenance in our future.”
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2023)
Valley of the Trolls 
The first of many undoable ideas I imagine!
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Poor Lady, finding her way…😄
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What fun! I am a huge fan of rapturous tilling, and gardening in general <3. Pleasure to have found your site!
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Well that pretty much says it all! I wonder how many jobs are secure due to other people’s ignorance?
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Whole government agencies! I speak from an inner sanctum…😂😂
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It’s only job security if you can stand the boss for a long, long time.
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Yep!
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(I’m with Nicole), fun Six.
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“We’re painting the roses red!”
Either you know or you don’t. 🐇
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Aw, they’re all just a bunch of cards, anyhow!
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It takes work to make plants line up in a checkerboard pattern, but it is at least doable. Those gardeners are going to be busy. I wonder how they are going to get the white rabbit to behave. Nice tale!
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They’ll have to make sure his watch is working!
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The price one has to pay for whimsical employers ….
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Indeed! 🤗
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Job security, right? lol
I bet if you could have that perfect a garden , one actually growing per the grid lines, it would be a very cool sight indeed!
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Haha! It’ll be a shock for her when nature follows it’s own pattern 😂
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Brilliant, Liz. Such a fun snippet.
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Thanks, Nicole!
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Maintenance or beheading. Your choice. ;-)
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Eeek! 🤣
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