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.
Thank you, Sammi!
What is a grimace?
An expression of pain taking over a face
A distorted smile ~ a wry show of amusement
A frown of distaste or scowl of disgust
Image worth a thousand words
A Dalectable Life 
This made me laugh, Dale. Great job.😄👍
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So glad it did!! 😀
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I choose an image worth a thousand words. Good Thunder!
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Thanks, Sorceress!
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Love this 💜💜💜
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That was a good 12 years ago!!
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💜💜😏
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🧡🧡🧡
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Excellent, Dale.
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Thank you, John. 😜 (To go with the sour candy)
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🤪 I think yours is too gentile
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Hahaha!! Having tasted those suckers, you may be right!
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Love the piccies too. 🙂 Your boys?
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Yes. About 12 years ago. Mick fave them ultra sour candies to taste… 😜
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Wizard!
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LOL!!
They still buy them today on occasion. They’re called Warheads!
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Neat. Nver heard of them. But that’s not surprising. I take very little notice of sweets, and haven’t since my child-days.
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So funny. When I asked Aidan the name of them, he not only told me but said he had some to share, if I wanted some 😉
I had never heard of them until Mick arrived on the scene 🙂
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Do sweets run in families? I mean a liking and knowledge of them?
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I imagine so… Mick introduced the boys to these and while their first impressions were what you can see in the photos, they both love them now…
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And doubtless they’ll pass them onto their children too.
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Should they ever have any…. Which doesn’t look the case, so far.
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They’re young yet.
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Yes. This is true.
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Or, a really, really dill pickle. Lol.
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Hahaha!! These “Warhead” candies are enough to turn your mouth to mush!
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Grimace…that face I just made at the tire shop (low tire that ended up needing to be replaced) 😩Wasn’t expecting THAT expense this weekend.
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Dang… That blows… Sending good vibes your way…
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Thanks. Yeah, good thing it’s too hot to eat anything (as if there was anything in the cupboards to eat beyond a couple of beers and dog food). Come to think of it, what else would anyone need? 🤣🍺
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Same here. Plus I have zero interest in cooking in this house, thus far. So, as a result, I shop for nothing. Nothing but liquid cereal (beer) and fermented grapes (wine).
I might have to go get Zeke some food but he ain’t eating much in this heat, either. 🐶🐾🍻🍻🍻🥂🍷🍷🍷
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Thank gawd for Chewys. I wish there was a store that delivered cereal and fermented grapes. I have no desire to leave the house in this heat.
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Seriously… Actually, my convenience store (beer) does… But it would be a tad embarrassing to do so as it is 200 or so feet away…as is the liquor store…
Thankfully, I have a couple cans and bottles left 😂
Mind you, I needs must go out to join friends for dinner and a “unplugged” show. Trying to shift my butt outta da lounger to do so… Sigh.
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I’d park my behind next to the pool if it were me, but then I’m not that much of a social butterfly these days. 🙁
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Which is exactly what I did… till I had to move to go join my friends… for some social time 😉
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👍🏻
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Now the HILARITY of this is that I sat down to read this with a bag of SOUR WILDBERRY SQUARES from Tangy Zangy in my hand …
LOL!!!!
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Buahahahaha!!
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I know!!! I busted out laughing. 🙂
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Success! Even if it was for a different reason 😉
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🙂 Laughter is good medicine so … 🙂
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‘Tis!! 😀
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Dear Dale,
The pictures say it all. They were sweet but the candy was not. Love your words and your pics.
Shalom and lotsa hugs,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Aren’t they great? Oh man to watch them as the candy got more and more sour before becoming sweet was a treat!
Glad you enjoyed my words.
Shalom and lotsa love,
Dale
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Grimace – what your boys do now looking back at what mom has posted.
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Actually, youngest laughed and remembered that day… then offered me some coz he still likes them!
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“In my day” it was Sweet-tarts, Jolly Ranchers, and some really sour things called Zotz ( or something like that). The photos and prose were such an excellent fit!
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I loved Sweet-Tarts – but lemme tell you, they mild compared to these crazy Warheads – probably something similar to Zotz.
Thank you. So glad you liked.
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Pictures worth a thousand words!
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That’s what I thought 😉
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So cute! Those photos are wonderful! 🙂
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Thanks. It was so funny to.watch them…🙂
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Q,
I was never much for sour candy. My jam was anything vice- like the liquor bottles filled with straight up syrup or the candy cigarettes. Of course. I miss those very un-PC days when kids had to figure out this stuff for themselves. Or not.
Sour candy IS grimace worthy, so excellent call on this challenge. What is it about human nature that makes you want to partake in something to which you know ahead of time you’re gonna grimace the hell out of? But we do it.
You done did it in 33 words. No grimacing that fact.
B
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B,
I don’t get the appeal of torturing your taste buds in such a fashion but Mick created lovers of the tang. (They still buy the shit.)
We do. We just have our preferred “partakals – made it up to create my alliteration 😉 )
I done did. 😉
Q
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People are cray cray when it comes to the tang. To each his grimacing own is what I say. I’ll grimace over weight gain I suffer whilst killing a bag of chocolate covered pretzels.
Partakals. Call that puppy in to Merriam Webster. Stat! And don’t take “please hold” for an answer.
Delectably.
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Those that are, really are! I’m happy with a bag of chips… a big one. Or a container of ice cream… a small one. Got the butt to prove it.
Sa-weet!
Dalectably 😉
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Before I forget, what is your word floor? Meaning, you’ve done 17 words, so you make 33 words go smoothly. But what would be the floor? 15? 10? IS there a floor for you? 😉
Chips! If they ever come up with a pill that instantly kills fat, I would have a bag of chips in my hand at all times. True story.
The butt is fine (In Al Green meaning of “damn, that’s fine!”).
When I have ice cream, I have a craving to chase it with . . . yep, chips.
Dalectrifying!
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I dunno. I think the shortest she has given us is 12. https://adelectablelife.com/2018/09/15/weekend-writing-prompt-72-shell/
Same! Me and chips are likethis. 🤞🏼
Hah! How sweet are you?
Yep… you said it. Sweet MUST be followed with salty.
Zzzzzzap!
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I remember that one! Shorter than a greeting card, my gawd! How????
Sweet always makes me want savory. Horrible thing.
Salty more like it. LOL
It should be a law, because at least then I wouldn’t feel so badly.
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I dunno. Sometimes it comes within seconds. I’m starting to think I think in 100 words or less, for fuck’s sakes.
Yep. Why do you think there is a whole market of sweet ‘n salty shit? They knows it.
Yes. Salty – in many ways 😉
Nahhh… just make sure it’s only a treat once in a while… Right. Shut up, Q.
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It could be a book! Hey, a cookbook even. For peeps who don’t like to cook.
And still, I segregate mine. I don’t let them tussle, until it’s time to organize a dance with my taste buds!
Mmm Hmmm.
Buahahahaha!
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Ha ha ha! It could at that.
As do I. Some will put them side by side and go back and forth. Blasphemy! One followed by the other.
😉
🙂
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They’ve done five ingredients or less in order to appease the “I ain’t got time for cookin” crowd. So the 100 word recipe cookbook seems the logical next step.
Yes! Those people ARE blasphemers indeed! I say whilst shaking my finger at the air as if I’m that nutty televangelist with the fleet of jets. Okay, that describes most televangelists .
😉
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Well…. Nah…. I’m due for something longer, besides a “my day was…”
Yep, that sounds ’bout right!
🙂
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My day was is already three words. Fuck! 100 word recipe would be damn near impossible!
I think it does. Bastids.
🙂
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Yeah, yeah, so you keep saying. But I’m perfectly good with that because you write such fabulous anything over 100…. 😉
Crazy bastids.
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I just think it’s best to fully understand your wheelhouse. You can go long or utilize brevity, whereas I am best fit for going long with my words.
Those snake oil salesmen sonsabitches.
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This is true. Guess that’s what I am. Miss Adaptable.
That is such a great term, Snake Oil Salesman.
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Sounds like a Kelly Clarkson song.
And it fits those varmints.
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Hah!
Does.
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😉
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😘
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😘
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That means a grimace can be either good news or bad. It depends on the circumstances~
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Exactly… 🙂
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grimace – always a negative connotation for me – sour, unpleasant, eeewk(y), bitter, should it be perceived as positive, it’s not a grimace 🙂
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Ah well… grimace is mostly negative, isn’t it?
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