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, for hosting this challenge!
She sat, gazing at the squalling snow outside her window and wondered how she had found herself here. Again. Why did she allow another to dictate how to live her life? How she should love? Or not love? She was her own woman, with thoughts, dreams and desires. She was not some mindless mannequin to be taken out and arranged just so to another’s way of seeing things only to be stored into a closet when no longer desired. It was time to break free.
A Dalectable Life 
Well done, Dale. That mannequin reminds me of my first wife.
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Thank you, John. With arms outstretched? Wanting more? 😉
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No the horns
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Buahahahaha!
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😁
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Ooerrr!
Love it very strong. 💜🇺🇦
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Thank you, my friend! 🧡
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💜💜🇺🇦
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🧡🧡
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Ya nailed it, Dale. A powerful statement when read fast, with emphasis. Again. You on a roll, Girl.
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I thank ye! Sometimes it just writes itself. Then rewrites itself 😉
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Maybe it seems like that, but you are involved in that process. 🙂
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This is true, of course 🙂
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Awesome use of the prompt, Dale. An empowering write.
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Thank you, Jeff. So very glad you think so!
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You’re welcome, Dale. Always!
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🙂
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Wonderful, well done Dale.
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Thank you, Peter!
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The soul speaks… 🙂 Love it!
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I fear it had to start shouting for her to hear 🙂
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Calgon baths can only do so much! 😉
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Oh yes…. I am overdue for one of those 😉
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Perfect, Dale! Time! 😉 xoxoxoxoxoxo
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Thank you, Marina. Influenced by two things I watched in the last two days 😉
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I saw your snow… wow!!!!!! Pretty persistent! xoxoxoxo
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Oh yeah… and here comes March – who does like to “surprise” us with major storms… xoxo
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Patience… Spring is round the corner!
🌷❤🌷
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That’s what we keep reminding ourselves… 😉 xoxo
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Yep!!!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxo 🌷🌸🌼🌺💐
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Well done. Good for her! Hear her roar! 😀
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Yes! Maybe she wishes it had happened sooner but hey… better than not at all! 😀
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😀
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Q
Now you’re cooking with mercury! Although that mannequin reminds me of some rather forgettable trysts in which I really through I might lose my soul. Or . . . maybe . . . I did? Nah, I would . . . know it, right?
You’ve merged passion with purpose, soul with sexy and have (once again! Second time in a few days now, thank you snow!) created a piece of writing to behold.
MUAH!
B
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B
Haha! I should hope you would know! Then again, they can be rather sneaky…
I thank you for your most generous compliment! I can’t guarantee this will continue 😉 I’m not the once-per-day kinda writer… not very often, anyway. I guess the snow definitely did help to encourage me to try my hand!
MWAH!
Q
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That’s my thought. Damn.
No, no need to ride that bicycle. Do your schedule, whatever you like. I’m just saying, this is richly satisfying so please . . please, and with pretty on top, continue.
MUAH!
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Damn, indeed.
You’re right. I don’t follow schedules per se. I pretty much go with the flow and that’s sometimes four days in a row, sometimes once in a week. However, with such a captive audience, I shall definitely strive to continue…
MWAH!
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However you do it, just do it, and more of it.
I did mention please, didn’t I? 😉
MUAH!
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I will! Love that you want me to 🙂
That you did!
MWAH!
😘😘
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You KNOW I do. 😉
MUAH!!!!
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I do KNOW!
MWAH!
😘😘
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MUAH!!
😘😘
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😘😘
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I never thought about relating a mannequin to a relationship – so I find your idea to be brilliant! 😀
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Thank you, Frank. I guess there are people who feel not more than a mannequin in a relationship 😉
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Dale…wonderful. I’m assuming that’s a picture of you. If it is, FRAME IT and hang it where you can see it everyday and then do a little dance and eat french fries, followed by ice cream, because you’re so happy to be free.
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Thank you, Gigi. And gosh no! That is a from the Cézanne exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts! However… I do like the rest of your phrase 😉
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Oh the life of a mannequin. Wonderful photo.
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Hah! Or a woman who feels like nothing but…
Thank you, Tim.
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This is so well done!
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Thank you, Alicia!
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Fabulous, Dale! You nailed it! And what a photo!
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Thank you, Jan! It was from the Cézanne special expo at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
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Chilling that she should feel like that
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Warming that she is finally doing something about it 🙂
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Of course
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🙂
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Great use of the word Dale, a powerful story.
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Thank you, Andrea. Now I hope she keeps on her new path 🙂
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I hope so!
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Me too!
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Sounds like the independent woman you are, Dale
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I like to think so!
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Dear Dale,
You are woman. I hear you roar. Definitely no one’s mannequin. Well done.
Shalom and lotsa firm but not stiff hugs,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle,
Oh, I wouldn’t say I haven’t been… But not so much now.
Shalom and lotsa love by choice,
Dale
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Well written, Dale, and so true for so many! Here’s to being one’s own, finding one’s spine, speaking one’s mind, making one’s way. You are no one’s mannequin, my dear!
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Thank you, Na’ama. Here’s to all that!
And I may have been in the past…
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We improve with age, ya know. When we’re young, our brains still have some growing up to do and our soul need to find the doors outta the myths we adopted as axioms. …
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There is that. Especially if we are wont to actually want to improve and learn and move forward (and outward)…
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🙂 Truth!
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Whoa…that’s not the image of a mannequin I was expecting which makes this post even more fantastic! Well done.
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I like that! I’ll definitely take a “whoa” any time 😉 Thank you, Monika!
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👍🏻 You earned it!
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You’re so sweet!
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Powerful
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Thank you
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Welcome
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Nice words and picture… 👏🏻
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Merci Brieuc 🙂 Cézanne au Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal 🙂
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Cézanne? J’aime… 😀
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Moi aussi
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This is fantastic, Dale. I love your take on this prompt, love the message here 🙂
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Thank you, my friend. 🙂
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Always 🙂 🙂 🙂
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😊🧡
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Nice
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Thanks
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Sweet write dear Dale! ⚡️💥
Breaking free is a milestone in a person’s life.
My mannequin, Judy, hasn’t seen the inside of a closet for 10 years.
Wish I could say the same for myself! xo
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Thank you, darling Resa! 👸✨
It truly is. For some, it takes longer than others.
Judy deserves to stay out of the closet!!
You shall feel safe again, one day. I am sure of it xoxo
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xoxoxoxo!!!
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Wow
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