A word prompt to get your creativity flowing this weekend. How you use the prompt is up to you. Write a piece of flash fiction, a poem, a chapter for your novel…anything you like. Or take the challenge below – there are no prizes – it’s not a competition but rather a fun writing exercise. If you want to share what you come up with, please leave a link to it in the comments.
Word Prompt
Furrowed
Challenge
So, here’s a little “quickie” before I go out into the Siberian-level cold of Montreal. Because I love these challenges, especially when the word count is so low! Thank you, always, to Sammi for hosting this!
We sit across from each other
Your brow is furrowed, your lips are set
I see the confusion in your eyes
Because you know not where I’m coming from
It’s not your fault, it just is
I don’t love you
Cool pic and great lil’ story. Well done.
STAY WARM!
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Thank you, Missy!
I’m bundling up as we speak!!
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Make sure you go to the bathroom first! bwahahaha!
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Seriously…
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Liked this. I put you forward for a Tell a Story challenge, but don’t know if it reached you OK. No problems if it doesn’t appeal.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/let-me-tell-you-a-third-story/
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Dear Dale,
Once again, you use one of your lovely photos. 😉 You wrote an entire story in 40 words. So much layered between the brief lines. I’m sending warm hugs your way. Well mine will keep your waist warm. ❤
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Thank you so much… as for the photo (uh huh, you’re welcome). Glad it came across.
I’ll take all the warmth I can today!!l
Shalom and Lotsa warm love,
Dale
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Oh, SNAP!
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Big time! Better now than later, though…
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I guess.
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Must be a “rip the band-aid off” kinda girl… 😉
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I can see that. 😳
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Sometimes, one must be cruel to be kind…
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🦷 Like the dentist.
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Right. 😀
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Right.
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😎
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I thought you were going to say, “It’s just your dementia.” 😉
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Hahaha!!! Could have been!!
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I was inspired, too, but my response—to appear this afternoon on m blog—is rather dismal. 😉
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Will check it out!
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I feel the frost. Not sure it’s source. Could be the piccie. Could be the opening remark. Nice words.
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Thanks, Crispina.. maybe the two together…
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There’s a lot of pain and history in those few words, well done!
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Thank you, Andrea… there might have been!
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Four little words.. Very nicely done Dale.
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Thank you, Violet. Important to be honest…
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Poignant and a bit funny all at once, with the added photo.
Otherwise, it is a painful truth that the furrowed should know!
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he he he… I figured with the “cracked” windshield 😉
It is a painful truth better acknowledged sooner rather than later.
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Oh, so it’s a cracked windshield! Well, it seems Frosty had his/her creative way with it!
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Actually, no, it’s not cracked. That is a cool ice formation on the inside of the windshield. I could not help but photograph it like that. I have another taken at night which is kinda cool, too.
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It’s gorgeous! Still, Frosty has some magic fingers!
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Thank you! My friend Marc from Sorryless used the “nighttime” one here…
https://sorryless.com/2018/12/05/wordless-wednesday-27/
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Heading over, soon!
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WOW! It’s stupendous!
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Why thank you, my friend!!
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Ouch!
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Sometimes it is best to feel the ouch sooner than later… 😉
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Yes indeed less time wasted 🤣💜
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I’m a firm believer in life is too short to spend it with someone who doesn’t “rock my boat”…😁🧡
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Very true Hun very true 💜💜
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Yep.
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💜🤐💜
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🧡🙄🤣🧡
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Well, that should’a broken any ice …. 😉 Well done! Have fun in the arctic … some of it is heading our way for tomorrow night, me hear. I’m not particularly keen on -15C but that’s what we’re set to be getting (before the windchill factor…).
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Funny! We each commented on the other’s at the same time!
I went into Old Montreal. After walking for less than 15 minutes, I could no longer feel my face. I have since thawed out…
Glad you liked mine 😉
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GMTA, as you know.
I’m glad you’re thawed. I’m not looking forward to freezer burn myself … 😉
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Honest to goodness… was nuts.
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Oh oh. You KNOW it is bad weather when you’d be warmer inside your fridge.
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Screw that! I think it’s warmer in my FREEZER!
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I’m going to be in Canada, but in the summer. I’m thinking–that’s good planning … 😉
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Oooh… Where?
Summer can be hotter than Hades too….
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Toronto area, probably. I don’t imagine it will be more ‘Hades’ than NYC in the summer … We basically have the three H’s down pat. Might at least have a bit of a breeze up north … 😉
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Dang… and true NYC is hotter than Hades…
Too bad, you’re not coming to Montreal!
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Who knows … 😉 There may be some traveling amidst the traveling … I’ll know more when summer approaches.
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Cool. 🙂
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Yep. Cool will be nice … 😉 (says the little red hen in the freezer)
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Tee hee…
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BAM! That quickly hit me right between the eyes, Dale. Well done!
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You mean… your own brows furrowed? 😉
Thank you, Lori!
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Oh how you enjoy those endings that coming out of nowhere!
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Glad you liked!
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The cracked photo (ice?) is the perfect partner for your words. Excellent.
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Jack Frost having fun with my car’s windshield…😉
And thank you, I thought so too!!
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Q,
Furrow is another favorite word and put to such heartrending use here!
Alas, there is but twilight for the stars that do not settle us. But the twilight is still something to shine on, so there’s that. And besides, there is always the star that you will find, after which all the rest will seem a lesson that became worth the learning.
Love that pic too! It looks so familiar!
B
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B,
It is a word of many meanings, which I really like.
Alas, that is very true. And yes, twilight is wonderful in itself. And if one is looking for that star, may they find. All learnings are good.
Thanks. Hmm. Wonder where you saw it before?
Q
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If it were a book, it would be leather bound and heavy. Yet, worth the read. Definitely worth the read.
There are no ‘mistakes’, only moments of learning. This ain’t new age mumbo jumbo, either. It happens to be truer than Jane Austen on a double dose of truth serum.
I don’t know! It has me . . wait for it . . wordless!
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Yes it would be. Without a doubt. (I first read if I were a book… – which I still would reply yes, you would be 😉 )
That is the truth right there. Something I’ve believed in all my life – or at least from the time I was aware and not looking at my own belly-button…
You? Wordless? Maybe on Wednesdays, any other day… nah… 😉
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Maybe the heavy part, LOL.
Belly buttons are easy to stare at for minutes on end. It resembles alien craftsmanship, and forget about the metaphorical values of such a term as belly button. It’s the beginning, it’s the end . . .
Wednesdays leave me wordless . . . word up!
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Definitely NOT the heavy part – the worth the read part and the leather bound (as in classic, not some fashion statement)…
They might be, but eventually you get a crick in your neck and are forced to look up. THEN and only then can you see your itty-bitty part in the grand scheme of things.
Word!
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Well ain’t you sweeter than pie! And Imma take the compliment! Even though the holidays did NOT do a service to me, but that’s okay, I’m back to reversing it.
Yes it’s true. Some believe the itty-bitty quality is a negative connotation. Nope, it’s in the itty-bitty that greater things are borne.
Up!
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We shall BOTH disregard the holidays and their nefarious ways of jeopardizing our svelte physiques, knowing we are tackling that issue. And yes, do take it as a compliment. It was meant as such.
And it need not be negative as long as one does not solely focus there all the time 😉
Up and away!
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Nefarious! Yes . . yes they are nefarious with their ways! How dare they vandalize our svelte physiques!
Correcto.
MUAH!
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How dare they!
Occasionally
MWAH!! Have a great shift 😉
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Thank ya . . thank ya very much! 🙂
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Be safe out there (even though you don’t have the wild snowstorm we are experiencing… as my office window slowly disappears under the snow…
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It’s the end of the world as we snow it . . .
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Such a comedian… keep your “day/evening” job
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Noted. 🙂
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Tee hee… ya know I luvs ya 😘
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😘
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Back atcha!
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Wait…no prizes? Not even $3K worth of fast food burgers? Hrumpf.
Seriously, all kidding aside…well done.
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Hrumpf away! What if there were alreadt $3K of burgers given?
I thank you, Missy. Much obliged 🙂
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😆
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😏
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Oh, the ending… ouch! Such drama in 40 words!
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Better now than years later. I say…😉
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I agree!
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My guess is you could have written that in a ten word or less challenge..:)
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Haha! I have done 19 words… can’t remember which was the shortest 😉
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There’s so much story in those few words, and that final line is brutal in it’s simplicity and honesty. A fantastic write 🙂
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Thank you, Sammi! Very much appreciated. 😊
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Great little story for the challenge. Reminds me of that Astrud Gilberto song “How insensitive. “
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Hah! Too funny… insensitive maybe…or maybe caring to let go 😉
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