Watcher Doings 8

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The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: PILOT . Visit, comment, and write & post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. (Link goes active Wed night)  The Café is open. Come as you are!

The blueberry muffins (fully cooked, though the oven’s pilot light had snuffed out early) had been devoured, and Fernlodth now lay on his back, sighing sweet contentment with a rounded belly, while Rockmouse sat crisscross, her one nibbled-on muffin cradled on her upper knee; it was not that she wasn’t hungry, but that she sensed the presence of a increasingly hostile presence above them.

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Watcher Doings 7

/ Liz H-H / 16 Comments
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The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: YIELD. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. (Link goes active Wed night)  The Café is open. Come as you are!

Soft hiss of bare feet retreating through summer grass, creak and slam of a screen door, soft slap of summer soles through darkness and across the wooden floor of hallway and kitchen, and the insouciant snap of a towel uncovering the fragrant glory of fresh-baked blueberry muffins were the only things that kept the gnomes from leaping at each other, and the watcher in the tree from leaping on them.

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Watcher Doings 6

/ Liz H-H / 23 Comments
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The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: SACK. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. (Link goes active Wed night)  The Café is open. Come as you are!

The game of Mumblety-Peg went on as expected…and on and on: two gnomes stand face-to-face about two feet apart; the thrower hurls a knife into the lawn between the bettor’s wide-spread feet; the knife nearly always lands point down; if the knife lands point down and sticks, the bettor moves the foot closest to the knife inwards, inch by inch, narrowing the gap; the thrower inches closer to the bettor, and tosses the knife again, until a fail condition happens.

Gnomish Mumblety-Peg adds another condition: throwers must remove the knife from between the bettors’ feet with their teeth.

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Watcher Doings 5

/ Liz H-H / 20 Comments
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The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: PEG. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. (Link goes active Wed night)  The Café is open. Come as you are!

Rockmouse was the second-best tracker in the Brotherhood of Gnomes, right behind Fernlodth; a critical skill, however, of all trackers is the gift of being able to out-think the quarry and anticipate, and in this, Rockmouse was better.

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Watcher Doings 4

/ Liz H-H / 8 Comments
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The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: STAKE. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on SIX SENTENCE STORIES. (Link goes active on Wed night)  The Café is open. Come as you are!

That bare spot in the woods is full tonight, a full moon illuminating the smoky, fragrant vapors from the many wee pipes gathered around for the Brotherhood meeting; they all had concerns about their brother Fernlodth.

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