My email assured me that I was the winner of a prime lot in Arkansas and all I had to do was mail them a check for $5000.00. They would have to prise my fingers off my check book for that to happen. The spam was ridiculous in my email account.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, ÿplease manually add your link in the comments.
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crystal’s breakable
I shouldn’t touch it myself
shatters on the floor
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
My brother decided to leave the family behind and without a word moved to North Carolina which is many states away from us. He rarely kept in touch until one day he seemed to realize that he missed his family and parents and tried to make amends. He hadn’t fully made those amends by the time both of our parents had passed on and wondered what they did to be treated that way. He did come their funerals, but aside from that there is not much communication between us. My sister and I forget at times we even have a brother.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
I am a bookworm. I have a kindle full of cozy mysteries and how-to books. I have a Kindle Unlimted account and I read more than the normal monthly amount of books so the membership is worth it.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
I am a bookworm. I have a kindle full of cozy mysteries and how-to books. I have a Kindle Unlimted account and I read more than the normal monthly amount of books so the membership is worth it.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Write a story that starts when your character enters a new environment with a plan to achieve something that matters to them…and immediately faces an obstacle.
When you have finished writing, go back and put a new opening on your story.
Maddie entered the crowded classroom. There wasn’t an empty seat. She looked around, wondering what she was supposed to do. She dropped the knapsack with her textbooks on the ground at her feet as it was too heavy to hold for long.
Despite the lack of available seats, Maddie’s determination didn’t waver. She had chosen the earliest class, hoping it would be less crowded than the later ones, typically filled with people who had day jobs and couldn’t attend a morning class.
She spied a desk in the corner and noticed a chair behind it. She grabbed the chair and placed it next to the other students.
When the teacher entered and headed to the desk, she noticed the chair was gone. “Where is my seat?” she exclaimed in an aggravated tone. “I need my chair back.”
Maddie raised her hand and said,” I’m sorry. I have your chair as there wasn’t an empty seat available for me.”
“Who are you,” she asked, taking out the list of students in the class.
“Maddie Collins,” she replied, wondering what the teacher was going to do.
“Well, Maddie Collins, you don’t have a seat because you are not on the list of students for this class. Please let me see your schedule.”
Maddie stood up and walked over to the teacher and handed her the schedule the office had provided to her. She didn’t bother to look at the schedule herself since she was sure she was in the right place.
“Well, Maddie, it seems you should be in classroom 403 and not 408. You are in the wrong classroom. Please bring the chair back to my desk and get yourself over to the right classroom where I am sure they have a seat waiting for you. Next time, check your schedule carefully.”
Mortified, Maddie stood up, moved the chair back to the desk, grabbed her knapsack, and left the room.
When she arrived at room 408, she found the class had already started. She entered, and the teacher said, “You are late. I don’t tolerate lateness in my classroom.”
“I’m sorry,” Maddie said, taking the empty seat. I was in the wrong classroom just now.”
“OK, but don’t let it happen again. If you are late again, I will mark you absent, and the day won’t count, and I won’t accept your homework as completed.”
Maddie couldn’t believe how terribly she was being treated for a few minutes of tardiness. She took out her textbook and opened it to the page the teacher had written on the board. She wanted to cry, but she was sure the teacher would also have a complaint about that.
Maddie finished reading the section of text and then picked up the sheet of questions the teacher had placed on her desk. The questions were due at the next scheduled class. She shoved the book and sheet of questions into her knapsack and prepared to leave for her next class.
“Remember, the class starts promptly at 8 PM,” the teacher told her as she walked past her to leave.
“Yes, thank you. I will be here on time for the next class,” Maddie said quietly, although she wanted to shout at the teacher.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Our lot back along the lake contained a huge area of trees including Birch, Oak and Elms as well as Dogwood Trees. Spring was always pretty when the Dogwood Trees would blossom. However, they only last a few weeks and then the blossoms drop onto the ground and make a mess. Fall is the worse though as all those trees have leaves that fall off and litter the ground. We rake the area around the house, but the trees on the perimeter just litter the ground and build up. We also dump our raked up leaves in this area as well which tends to make those piles larger. Oh well, there was no where else to take them as we lived at least a half a mile off the road where they actually picked up the raked leaves. Too far for us to drag them so into the wooded area they went.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, ÿplease manually add your link in the comments.
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Many little girls beg their parents to let them take ballet lessons. Although it might have crossed my mind at some point as a child, my parents couldn’t afford the lessons, let alone all the costumes required for the recitals. The only recital I had ever attended was one that featured my granddaughter.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Mary glanced at the cabinet in her room, the only place she had to store her clothes. The room was not equipped with a closet. There was no room for a chest of drawers. All of her clothes were in the cabinet.
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Write a story that starts with your character in one place. Then they go through a series of events or experiences that leads them to a moment where everything changes for them.
Then let us follow them back through a series of events that mirror those that happened before, and show us how the world looks different to the character now.
Valerie looked forward to her last day of high school. She would be an adult now, and no one could tell her what to do or when to do it. This is going to be great, she thought. I will stay out all night if I want to, sleep all day, and forget about studying. She didn’t plan on attending college and successfully convinced her parents that she would sign up for the county college, although she had no plans to attend it.
“Get up, Valerie, and get dressed,” her mother said from the doorway.
“I am an adult now, and you can’t tell me what to do. I intend to party every night, come home late, and sleep all day.”
“Valerie, I have news for you. As long as you live under my roof, you will follow my rules. You get up, get dressed, and start looking for a job. You will work this summer before you go to college in the fall. You will pay some rent for this room until the fall college starts.”
“What do you mean I have to get a job. I am not following your rules because I am an adult now.”
“OK Valerie, suit yourself. Pack your things up and move out. My house, my rules.”
“Fine, I will find my own apartment and then you can’t tell me what to do.”
“What do you intend to pay for this apartment with, not to mention food and clothes, utilities like electricity and heat, etc.”
“What do you mean pay for all those things?”
“You seriously don’t think they are free now, do you?”
“But all of my friends are moving out, and the ones who stay with their parents don’t have to pay to live there or follow their rules.”
“I don’t care what your friends are doing. We can’t afford to support you forever. While you are in college, we will pay your expenses so you don’t have to work and can study in your downtime away from classes.”
“Move or get a job. Those are your choices.”
Valerie started to get up and headed to the shower. Once dressed, she went to her computer and looked up a job website. She started to peruse the list of openings, but nothing appealed to her. She tried another site. Again, she didn’t find anything she wanted to apply for. She was stumped.” She finally decided to head the industrial park and go to every one of the factories that were there. Hopefully, some of them were hiring.
She was tired and planned to hit the local Mall tomorrow. Those stores always had help-wanted signs in the windows.
She headed home for the day. Upon arrival, she went to her room and got the applications for the local college. “Mom, can you help me with these applications for the fall college session? I want to go to college. I can see now that being an adult would be much easier with a career to support me. I want to live here with you and will get a job as soon as possible and go to work so I can pay the rent.”
“I am happy to hear that, Valerie. You only have to pay rent if you aren’t working and going to school. As long as you apply to college and get a job, we will be happy to let you live here, just like you have throughout high school.”
Mom and daughter hugged and then settled down to fill out the applications. Valerie was starting to get excited as she looked at the college’s programs.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Thanks to Natalie, the Explorer, for hosting this prompt.
Grab a chair and something to drink. If you were here, I would tell you that things have not gotten any better in this assisted living facility. Things are worse in a lot of ways. They can’t keep staff so it constantly changes and the care is not great. I try not to complain too much because that simply makes things worse. And yes this is the same complaint. Different day, still the same nonsense.
I am working diligently on my prompts that I write and post to my blog. They are slowly getting longer than just a few sentences and I have even spent some time working on my memoir.
I am still having trouble getting to all of my doctor’s appointments. My one daughter is not available right now due to her own health concerns so that leaves one that has to take off of work early to take me to some of these appointments as most doctors don’t have evening or weekend hours. So far she has been able to take me, but in June there is an appointment that she can’t do and I don’t know if the other daughter will be able to take me or not since I don’t know if she is done her own health issues.
Mother’s Day is Sunday and I don’t know if my daughter’s will do anything. I know my son ordered something off of Amazon.com. He said it shoud be here on Saturday.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Looking at the pile of bilss, Jessie knew she needed a loan to consolidate them into one lower payment. She went to an office that offered plans to help you pay off your debt and started the process. It brought the balances down on all of her credit cards and set up a repayment plan to have them paid off in 5 years. All of her bills were now set up as one loan payment due monthly.
Filing for bankruptcy had been her other choice and she didn’t want to do that as her credit would take even more of a ding than the repayment plan would do. She couldn’t miss a payment either or that would end the current set up and the loans would go back to the full balances due. She worked diligently to pay off the lone payment she had each month.
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “loan/lone.” Use them any way you’d like. Bonus points if you use both. Have fun!
After you’ve written your Saturday post tomorrow, please link it here to this week’s prompt page and check to make sure it’s here in the comments so others can find it and see your awesome Stream of Consciousness post. Anyone can join in!
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1. Your post must be stream of consciousness writing, meaning no editing (typos can be fixed), and minimal planning on what you’re going to write.
2. Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be. One sentence – one thousand words. Fact, fiction, poetry – it doesn’t matter. Just let the words carry you along until you’re ready to stop.
3. I will post the prompt here on my blog every Friday, along with a reminder for you to join in. The prompt will be one random thing, but it will not be a particular subject. For instance, I will not say “Write about dogs”; the prompt will be more like, “Make your first sentence a question,” “Begin with the word ‘The,’” or will simply be a single word to get you started.
4. Ping back! It’s important, so that I and other people can come and read your post! For example, in your post you can write “This post is part of SoCS:” and then copy and paste the URL found in your address bar at the top of this post into yours. Your link will show up in my comments for everyone to see. The most recent pingbacks will be found at the top. NOTE: Pingbacks only work from WordPress sites. If you’re self-hosted or are participating from another host, such as Blogger, please leave a link to your post in the comments below.
5. Read at least one other person’s blog who has linked back their post. Even better, read all of them! If you’re the first person to link back, you can check back later or go to the previous week by following my category, “Stream of Consciousness Saturday,” which you’ll find below the “Like” button on my post.
6. Copy and paste the rules (if you’d like to) in your post. The more people who join in, the more new bloggers you’ll meet and the bigger your community will get!
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8. Have fun!
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Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
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