Pops, can I borrow $10?
Sweetie, we need milk.
Honey, the washer broke and we need tires.
Susie needs braces and Will needs running shoes.
Do these people think I’m made of money?
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above pic from stock images.
Trifextra’s challenge is to write 33 words utilizing an idiom somewhere in those words. I chose Made of Money.
I was seven or eight. Remembering which rent house we lived in helps put a date on it.
It had been an up and down day. Daddy had been drinking – again – out of work – again – my sister and I were quarreling – again. He’d had enough. Sent us to bed. We fussed. He heard.
Mom came to us. Whispered. “He wants me to spank you. You’re just little girls. I won’t spank you. You must be brave and cry when I tell you to.†Then, as she lovingly tucked us into bed she slapped her own bare legs. “Cry now, girls.â€
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The 100 Word Challenge this week is TUCK. This is written in honor of my mother who suffered unthinkable things at the hands of my father. She protected my younger sister and me many times. This is a true story. My mother was a survivor. I wish I could tell her how much that night meant to me, even though I did not understand it at the time.
Remember our spring? How we kids loved to strip to our undies, dance in the puddles left by rain.
How as teens we’d walk and talk and love. Our rebellion of our parents complete. We loved.
Trifextra challenge week sixty – take their proffered 3 words (remember, rain, rebellion), add our own 33 to those – in any order – to make 36. Then post. These are mine. Where are yours? This weekend’s words will be community judged. Please read and select your top 3 as soon as submissions end and voting begins.
Bodies glisten. Oiled, tanned, sleek bodies intermingle with sweat-dripping, not so sleek bodies. Hard bodies and those striving to become hard(er) bodies work side by side. A night at the gym takes precedence over another night at the movies – the bar – the couch.
After the first tremulous days of being in a new place, doing new things, and bending my body into unaccustomed shapes I’ve become one with the gym.
It’s not been an easy 7 months, but it has been fruitful. 40 pounds gone away – for good. Many more pounds must follow. Each day a new day towards life.
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VV’s 100 Word challenge this week is SHAKE. The above is a true story. I have many more pounds to go before I am sleek . . . but it is getting closer.
It was
The day after
Kingdom
Come
The mists
Cleared
We raised
Stretched
Our hands
To the sky
Stooped
slowly
To the
Ground
We sought
What was
Lost
Wondered
If we
Were found
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The Trifecta weekend challenge was to write 33 words with the above picture as the catalyst. These are mine . . . where are yours?
