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Weekly Challenge #939 – Train
Lisa Lizzie Richard Serendipidy Norval Joe Tom Planet Z The next topic is PICK TWO Still, Officer down, Random Action, One two three…, Pure, You never know RICHARD Railway lines I'm writing this on the train. It's a good
Didn’t you used to be?
You never know which home run is the last home run you hit. Or give up as a pitcher. The last touchdown you catch. Or throw. Or run. Or get called back because of your holding penalty. Maybe it's your call from the booth. Television. Radio. The last dunk.
Teddy Baskets
Teddy Baskets leads the league in scoring. Triple Double Teddy. But he also leads the league in shots. And shots missed. And fouls and turnovers and minutes. If you average things out, you'll see why Teddy's team is in last. Nobody else gets any shots bec
Called strikes
It was fourth grade recess league softball, and I managed to avoid my name sticking to any roster. The teachers didn't know what to do, so they asked if I'd be an umpire. "No," I said. But they made me do it anyway. "Strike!" I shouted after every pitch,
Burning things
Johnny started a TikTok account and posted all kinds of things, but he wasn't getting any views. So, he started posting videos of fires. Burning cars. Burning buildings. Burning parks. This got him a lot of views. But the other people posting videos of th
If you can’t take away guns…
So, you want to stop school shootings? Metal detectors haven't worked. Guards haven't worked. Safe zones haven't worked. Lots of people are talking about taking away guns again. As if you could take away the guns. And even if you stop selling the big guns
Jasmine season
It's almost jasmine season again. The jasmine vines took a beating last year because of the freeze. I thought about chopping them down, but let's see how they do this year. If there's no bloom at all on the ground, yeah, I'll cut them off and plant anew.
Weekly Challenge #938: Total Security
LisaLizzie RichardSerendipidy Norval JoeTom Planet ZI think I mixed the ending a bit oddly... oh well. You can see the topic here:The next topic is TrainRICHARDSold!I bought it on Amazon: No, it wasn't cheap, but m
The first Easter
He stood there, a dark and shabby man, rotten teeth and wild hair.Clothed in dirty rags, surrounded by dozens of shabby commoners.Roman soldiers watched them all."That's Jesus?" I said. "For real?""Kinda puts things in perspective, eh?" said Dr. Marks
Baby, it’s cold outside
Baby woke up cold, bound up and tied to a tree.She looked around as best she could.There were trees all around her, and all she heard were crickets.She tried to scream, but there was a gag over her mouth.The last thing she remembered was leaving Archi