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. I always enjoy these challenges, so thank you, Sammi!
Word Prompt
Devour
Challenge
Hunger
They planned to meet at lunchtime which would give them a chance to dispel any butterflies they might feel. They walked hand-in-hand, both trying to ignore the electricity that ran up their arms while they walked and searched. They discovered a cool joint with a hippy vibe that served excellent beer and simple, yet fun food.
The decor was perfect to get them talking about this and that while they each surreptitiously stole glances. The chilled beer barely managed to cool their inner thoughts, though.
As soon as they exited, he pulled her to him and kissed her passionately. “I could devour you right here and now,” he growled.
Sigh… the anticipation really gets the heart going and who hasn’t wanted to devour or be devoured. Lovely, Dale…
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Thank you so much, SD…
The anticipation is almost the best part, then again…
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You are welcome. I have to agree, Dale, the anticipation, the build up, all those beautiful emotions before the explosion… but yes, then again, the feast is usually a whole different frenzy 🙂
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Mmmm… you have just added a bunch of words to my restricted challenge 😉
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Ooopsie… I never liked restrictions 🙂 We;ll call it a post script, an epilogue of sorts 🙂
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I love doing these challenges because they force me to cut the fat…
I’ll take your epilogue gladly.
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Haha, yes, trimming the fat is how I write… no excess at all… short as possible – a personal challenge 🙂 It’s yours 🙂
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It’s a great exercise – and why I do three of the challenges – they force me to think and hopefully write better!
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It is, I agree… I once did daily prompts and challenges. They do force us into new modes of writing and that’s a good thing.
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I don’t do daily but the ones I do do, take up a lot of my time because I read everyone’s entries… Sometimes I just have to pick and choose.
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Ah, yeah, that was one of the reasons I stopped doing them. I felt bad for not keeping up with all the entries – just didn’t have the time.
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It’s crazy. Mind you, I filter out those who don’t reciprocate or don’t even acknowledge my comment. Saves me a lot of time because there are lots who write and run…
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Ha, yes…. I did that all the time. Still do it. I won’t waste my time to leave a comment if you’re not going to at least acknowledge it.
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At least click the like! 😉
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yeah, right? 🙂
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🙂
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🙂
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Dear Dale,
Yum! And I’m not talking about the dinner or the beer. 😉 Good use of the word.
Shalom and lotsa delicious hugs,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Thank you, my friend… beer, food? Forgot all about them…
Shalom and lotsa love that electrifies 😉
Dale
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Q,
This feels so real. Their thirst quenched in a most vicarious pose, their hunger sated temporarily . . but for the primal abandon whose thrust advances certainly. Both of these things, in torrents.
You’ve painted a sexy piece of mystery dancing in sync with the mayhem of horizontal resolutions. The pace, a perfect rhythm whose melody branches off into divine stanzas while the lyrics get written with each wild new movement of two dreams, being remedied into one.
Devour? Yes . . . God yes.
B
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B,
Beyond pleased this feels so real. Your comment has added much delicious lushness to my basic story.
I am also so pleased my brush gave you the visual you so adeptly put into your beautiful words.
Devour? Absolutely.
Q
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Basic? Basic what?
As math it ain’t basic, it’s geometrical fire. As French, it’s cursive. As knowledge, you’ve created a tango with thrust. So no . . no basic to be had here, deary.
Words, when painted in such wondrous ways, tend to bring that growl out in me, I can’t help it. You troublemaker.
Positively.
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Basic desires, while bearing good thrust was brought to a higher level, enhanced by your additional words. How ’bout that?
I love bringing out your growl. I’ll have to find more excuses… I like trouble.
Without a doubt.
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Okay . . that is very okay. 😉
Careful there, Missy!
None.
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Glad you think so.
I shall consider it… 😉
At all.
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U know I do.
Yeah . . uh huh. You ain’t even a little bit scared.
😉
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I do know.
Nope. I like living on the edge…
🙂
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Of course.
I see that.
😘
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You like that
😘
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Love it.
😘
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Knew it.
😘
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😘😘
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😘😘
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Not sure why, but I knew you would take this angle.
Perhaps I’m just getting to know you a bit better.
Well written, Dale!
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Hmmm… maybe I am becoming too predictable? However, I am so glad you enjoyed.
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I don’t think so. It’s the first piece I have had a feeling about. It’s because you are so romantic, and I am too, and I would devour.
I would also devour the secret message, if the CIA cornered me. 😀
HEY, Project was a hilarious surprise.
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Oh good (though I didn’t really think so… not really!) And yes, romantic and sensual all the way.
He he he! Love it!
And yes, I got that from the mile-long laugh (loved it!)
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Adore your writing. Stay on it!
I’m neck deep in taxes paperwork. It’s effecting my drawing, but I’m having at the paints & pens tonight.
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How sweet are you? Have no fear, I can’t seem to stop!
Ugh. Paperwork… something I’ve been avoiding but will have no choice but to tackle.
Don’t you just hate when reality comes and interferes with your creative time?
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YES!!
Is there a prompt for that?
I can hardly wait to start the next Art Gown.
That will happen after all this paperwork is fait complete!
Anyway, I just turned Holly, PBH into a dragon. So many creative things to do, so many interferences.
I want to read another Shehanne book, so why am I struggling with a Dostoyevsky book?
Ok…. I’m drawing…now!
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I wish!
Good girl – doing the dreaded paperwork first.
Oooh… Didja know I’m a dragon in the Chinese horoscope 😉 ?
Dostoyevsky – I have to admit I’ve not read him… Russian authors are not easy as they are soooooo descriptive. I’ve read some Tolstoy and Nabokov… eesh.
Enjoy your drawing!
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I was hoping you’d do one of those with that! You are so good at painting those interpersonal (well, pun and all, in this case …) scenes.
Ooo-la-la indeed.
🙂
Na’ama
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Were you, now? I cannot help but ask why? Well, okay, if you insist I do them well, then heck…
So glad you enjoyed my ooo-la-la 😉
Dale xo
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I was … I actually thought to myself “I wonder if Dale will be the one who’d bravely take the ‘devour’ to the romantic kind” – and I was not wrong!! 🙂 (did I ever mention how much I adore being right, even if I only prove myself right to myself? … 😉 ). In any event, you DO do this well – the real and believable and almost tangible exchange.
I’m glad you took the challenge this way!
🙂
Na’ama
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Well, isn’t that interesting? I wonder why you wondered if I would be the one to do so? Hmmm…
Glad for your moment of pride in being right 😉
I am glad I do this well. Who’d a thunk?
So am I …
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🙂 I don’t know why I thought it … but I did … so there … 🙂
And … you are good at it!
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Wonder what kind of vibe I give off 😉
And… I thank you!
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A capable vibe? 🙂
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I dunno. You tell me!
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Okay … Let me try again … 😉 I am not sure what made me think of you taking this route in this particular case (intuition? psychic sense? …) but I DO believe you have not only a very good sense of how to translate conversations and interactions that may appear mundane but are exquisitely human, but you also often write about such moments in a way that is both down to earth and tender. This kind of description of an infatuated couple was real without being sappy, smile-making without being ridiculous — exactly the way no-one-is-in-the-world-but-us infatuation can appear. 🙂
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Now THAT is the best comment, EVER! Thank you, Na’ama. Seriously. I love that you get that from my writing.
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🙂 I do. And I’m glad you pushed for a bit more verbalization of what I’d meant. 🙂
XOXO
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😀
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Reminds me of several moments in my life. Thanks for the memories, Dale. Well done.
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So glad I have evoked pleasant memories in you, John. It’s more than a writer can hope for.
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That is the truth, Dale.
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I am now sitting here smiling…
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Me too.
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🙂
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A perfect pudding!
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Glad you think so, Peter!
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I like the sudden fire. My first thought with “devour” perfect for The Painted Lady.
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Now, now, Frank…
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But you know it’s true.
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Well… I like to think this is more romantic… even if it is sexy
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Yours is romantic … TPL can be romantic too, but in her own way.
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Well… OK…
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Devour … such a great word, fraught with such possibilities.
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I could not agree more…
By the way, your previous post, a second one for Neil Peart didn’t work – did you take it down?
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No. Still there.
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Then, the link didn’t work for those of us who receive email notifications…
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Interesting. It also doesn’t show up in my Reader either, but when I go directly to my blog, it’s there. Hmmm….
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Strange. This is going to sound funny but did you put it in the trash and take it out again? That’s happened to me. I think I would trash it and take it back out, changing something and republish…
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Nope. I also noticed that the corresponding tweet didn’t include any image, which was odd, since there’s a video included — which typically be comes the image included in the tweet. Something’s glitching!
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Here’s another odd thing, in my email, I can click on the video but as soon as I try to connect to your blog, nada.
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It’s Putin.
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Of course it is.
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And a hot and steamy scene followed… oh, those were the days
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That should be the plan…
Sigh…
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Double sigh… though I do remember a *business* lunch with one of the partners of our advertising agency. And he was all for booking a room. And I most certainly was not. That was awkward.
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This is ironic as I’ve been bingeing “Mad Men” – advertising, smoking, drinking, *business lunches* that end in sex…
He wasn’t to your taste? 😉
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I’ve always had a thing for lean men, not chubby. Shouldn’t be sizest but… tastes are tastes.
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I am with you 100%, Crispina. I’m guessing the proposition came from a chubby man 😉 I am partial to tall and athletic, myself.
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Doesn’t have to be tall, but definitely fit. Which considering how out of shape I am these days might appear unreasonable of me. But… tastes are tastes 🙂
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I’m almost 5’9″… while my husband was 1/2″ shorter than me, if I’m to choose, I like ’em a tad taller 😉
And that’s neither here nor there. I have a very heavyset friend who doesn’t like fat women – I can’t say a word when he speaks… 😉 Tastes are tastes.
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I’m very short for my weight!
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Hahaha! Love it…
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Moreover, when I had my hips xrayed, the radiologist (is that the word) remarked to my GP that he had never seen such dense bones on a woman in his life… think how much they must weigh!
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Well, that is a whole ‘nother kettle of fish! Dense bones equal solid – and that is something to be happy about. (Yes, that is the word.)
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It’s just as well with the number of times over the past two years I’ve stepped on a stick, a nut or stone and landed on my butt, to *back-ski* down the rest of the hill.
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Oh dear… maybe it’s all those fancy landings that have made your bones so dense 😉 My karate teacher broke his arm and when they took the x-ray, the technician freaked as his bones are solid and not transparent as they should be… from all the fighting…
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I’ve always walked. Miles upon miles. Even the day my youngest was born I walked 8 miles… then came home and scrubbed the cooker, Strange the things we remember 🙂
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In the end, beneficial for you!
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Can any woman complain at four hours pf labour, totally *natural*?
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haha! More than that for my first (premature by one month and induced) four, totally natural for the second and six totally natural for the third!
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I highly recommend Highland Fling… first child born 2 hours later, or the walk. I did neither with the middle child, and that was the longest labour… at six hours. Peasant stock, me. 🙂
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Highland Fling?
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I used to be in a folk dance troop, whose repetoire included Scots and Irish dance as well as the figure-dances often seen tese days on period dramas… kinda Georgian… as to the Highland Fling, difficult to describe so…
Don’t laugh. And yes, I did it 9 months pregnant
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Oh, no, I am not laughing… And I knew what the Highland Fling was… I guess my question was more of a: You did that to help provoke birth? But if you were already dancing before I would have done as you and continued… I would go rollerblading during my lunch hour and my boss would freak out (I was 7- months pregnant). Nothing wrong with continuing with an exercise plan that was already in effect – not so good to take one up that our body is not used to!
And… just watching these ladies jump is enough to make me pee my pants! (A lovely side-effect from three pregnancies…)
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So much fitter in those days. Though I still love to dance, it’s more self-choreographed dance aerobics 🙂
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Sigh. I hear you. Great form of exercise! 😊
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Yea. But the past two years it’s become increasingly difficult to pry myself away from the writing. Blame Kerrid. 🙂
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I can’t say I blame you for being so attached 😉
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Now I’m easing to the end of all this prep-work, I must try to get back into thee old routines. Slowly, of course 🙂
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I am trying to get myself motivated. It’s so hard to re-start after a long period… but I will!
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Aye, tis, I agree…
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I was rather pleased with myself yesterday. A friend and I challenged each other of get off our butts and get our 10k steps in. My walk did not suffice so I had to run up and down my stairs for the last 1K! Added benefit is I got my cardio up. Then I figured might as well get some ab work in there. Think my kick-start has been given!
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I say nothing. Although I did push it a bit last week. And I do a stretchy-bendy everyday.
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😀
I am not too good on the stretchy-bendy. Must incorporate that pronto!
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As one ages, and collegen starts to harnen, those bendy-stretches become more important than anything else. Trust me. 🙂
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Oh, I know. I feel the ill effects… which is why they are back in!
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They make all the difference. Keeps you nice and supple 🙂
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Truth!
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🙂
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Young love 💜
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Or not so young love 😉🧡
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Yes that’s fine with me too 🤣
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Oh cool… Gives me a chance…
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Lol 💜🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Lol all you want, long-married one 😛
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Indeed 💜💜
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🧡🧡
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Sensual and romantic! You get across that wonderful feeling of anticipation–and what comes after. 😉
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Thank you, Merril. So glad I do…😉
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Thank goodness for the word limit, what followed would probably have made me blush!
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Aw shucks…I would have liked to see that!!
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Well, that scene’s only ending one way! It was a long time ago but I remember that feeling, though it was frightening too – that sense of losing control, of being carried along by something. Passion can be as painful as it is wonderful.
Lusciously written, Dale
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I sure hope so! 😉
It can be frightening but oh so exciting.
Glad you thought it was luscious 🙂
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I suppose those two things often go hand in hand 🙂 And Luscious was definitely the right word
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Yes, I suppose they do!
And sweet! Thank you!
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Always a pleasure 🙂
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Cool build-up. Nice one, Dale.
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Thank you, Ina.
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Ah, well done, Dale!
I say that to Hera [our pitbull] several times a day! 😉 xoxoxoxoxo
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Thank you, Marina!
LOL!! Not quite the same, eh?
xoxo
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Oh, well… I know! 😉 xoxoxo
Can you blame me though?!!!!!! 😉 😉
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😊
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Unless it was a Christmas cookie, I think I’ve forgotten the whole concept of devour. Well done.
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Buahahaha! You nut, you. Maybe you need revving 😉
Thank you!
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I think a full monty overhaul is probably in order! 😂
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Buahaha! Maybe you just need an oil check 😉
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I think the dipstick ran dry. 😆
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You nut! Fill ‘er up and get a new dipstick!!
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🤩
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😉
😘
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