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Watcher Doings 7

/ Liz H-H / 16 Comments
juicy tangerine wedges

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
juicy tangerine wedges

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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Cougar Comes Around

/ Liz H-H / 10 Comments
Dirty glass bottle, top broekn off, on a wooden surface
© Ayr/Gray

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, THE UNICORN CHALLENGE.  03/28/25). No more than 250 words in length. [For those interested, a background flash, part of the Lula stories, is found here: https://valleyofthetrolls.blog/2024/10/02/mark-of-the-mountain-lion/ ]

Like most of the girls that found their way to Lula’s Saloon, Tucker found a way to fit in, using her own special gifts and learning other invaluable skills. All accepted Lula’s rules of community, or moved on.

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