Category Archive:Moose Nuggets

Shopping List

August 18th, 2012 / Categories: Moose Nuggets, words / 6 Comments »

Grapes
Peaches
Crab

Kendra checked off each item as she placed them into her cart.

Nuts
Bon-bons
Wine

Check – check – and check.

“That’s quite a list.”

Kendra jumped at the sound of her friend’s voice. “Stacey! I didn’t see you standing there.”

“Throwing a party, Ken?”

“Yeah, of sorts, Stacey. Mark comes home from work tonight. He’s been on the platform for six weeks. God! I get so lonely when he’s gone. He treats me like a queen when he’s home. These are some of our special foods.”

“Geez, you’re blushing, Ken. It makes you look sweet. Have fun tonight.”
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Lance and LeeRoy have chosen Peel Me a Grape as the song for this week. A number of Alaska’s oil workers are gone for weeks at a time – away from their families for 2 – 3 – even 6 weeks, then coming home for only a week or two. Some families survive very well. Others not so much. People do what they can do to survive.

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Oooooh, Gypsy Woman

August 17th, 2012 / Categories: Moose Nuggets, Velvet Verbosity, words / 3 Comments »

She wore bright, flowing clothes and wrought silver bangles; her hair was long and loosely held back by a silk scarf.

I entered her wagon fueled by curiosity only a 13 year old boy could feel. God, she was beautiful.

“Come in, young man. Let me hold your hand,”

I shivered as she touched me, her bracelets cold against my skin.

“What is it you seek, sir?”

“I, I,” my voice broke. “Dammit! Oh, sorry, Gypsy.”

“No matter, little man. Soon all will mature. Try again?”

“A, a kiss! That’s what I want.”

“$20 sir.”

Best money I ever spent!
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As VV winds down from a couple of very busy weeks, she has challenged us with the word WROUGHT. The above is my take on using the word. Where is yours?

The end of the story

August 17th, 2012 / Categories: Moose Nuggets, trifecta, words, WOW! / 9 Comments »

At summer’s end the house had been razed. The girls chatted.

“Janey, what will you say you did this summer?”

“Just that I am so glad to be friends with you, especially now.”
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Our weekend challenge from those novel trifecta editors was to finish what we started with the July 27th challenge. I had started a young adult mystery. As you can (I hope) imagine, LOTS must have gone on in between those 33 opening words and the above 33 closers.
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Home – Trifecta

August 15th, 2012 / Categories: Moose Nuggets, trifecta, words / 3 Comments »

It looks like home
Where my heart is
Smells like home
Where my heart is fed
Seems like home
When my heart returns
It’s HOME with you and
The love we share together
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Your challenge from trifecta, should you choose to accept it, is to write 33-333 words on HOME – as in “home is where the heart is.”

These are my words – where are yours?

Something Personal

August 12th, 2012 / Categories: Alaska, Moose Nuggets, sad, talkin' to mahself, words / 5 Comments »

When you overhear ignorance and bigotry what do you do? I am right there with you. I would be in the person’s face decrying that ignorant, intolerant bigotry . . . except . . .

Hubbymoose and I both work for non-profit agencies. We are not in the higher paid positions and so must be careful how we tread among the ignorant, intolerant bigots who live among us. You know the ones I mean – the ones who rant and rave at the top of their lungs in a restaurant full of people.

Our hooves are tied. Speak out – tick the wrong person off – and watch our agencies suffer the backwash. We are not concerned about our jobs, you see. We are more concerned that what we might say would cause problems for our agencies.
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