55 Flash Fiction Friday: I Know Why

"I know why they go back ", she said sadly. "People tell you to leave and you do. They say they will help and they don't. Friends say they will be there and they aren't." "Are you ok?", the friend asked. "I struggle constantly. I don't want to go back. But everyday I'm afraid I will."

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55 Flash Fiction Friday: It Was The Scariest Of Times

Looking at her friend with concern she said, "Are you OK?" Shuddering violently her friend answered, "I've never seen anything like it." "It was that bad?" "Yes. It really was. I didn't know preschoolers behaved like that at birthday parties." "No party next year then?" her friend asked. "It was scary... but totally worth it."

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55 Flash Fiction Friday: Time Out

Frustrated at inexcusable behavior and angry looks the mom said, "That's it young lady. You are going in time out." "No!", screamed the almost three year old. "You bad! You go time out!" Fighting a smile the mom kept a straight face. You had to admire her fighting spirit even if her behavior was awful.

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Song Saturday: Take That -The Greatest Day

55 Flash Fiction Friday: The Old Fashioned Way

We looked at each other feeling hot under the collar. "I'm sorry," I said. I knew what I had to do. "It looks like your sister got both of us," I said reaching in the drawer. "I'm going to have to do this the old fashioned way." "Waaahhhhhhh!" she cried as her temperature was taken.

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Theme Thursday: Brush

Everyday you run and scream,
looking at me like I am mean.


I just want to help you out,
not hear you yell and shout.


My heart racing running after you,
everyday our torture starts anew.


Little girl can you please cut me a break,
let me brush your hair for goodness sake.









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Wordless Wednesday: Dogfucius Says...

Magpie Tales: Rusty Water

Seeing the water do damage upon the floor,
she sank into it feeling hopeless at her core.


One more thing has gone wrong and now needs to be fixed,
she's starting to wonder if her decisions have left her jinxed.


The guilt slowly killing her as she watches red rusty water fall,
her doubts rising with the level of the water up to the back wall.


Her heart becomes pitted and slowly sinks with gradual shape deformation,
her worries and doubts breaking her like the pipe did from extreme oxidation.

This is a Magpie Tale

Sunday 160: Almost New Room

Almost Painted
Almost Done
Bed Is Up
Can't Take It Anymore
It Has Been Three Months
Of Broken Promises
Angry
Three Year Old
Sharing With Sister Cries
"I want my new room"


what can you say in 160 characters? (spaces included) say it, and go see Monkey Man.


**CRAP I HOPE I DID THIS RIGHT. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD THIS IS TO DO? LOL**

Song Saturday: Pendulum -Watercolour

55 Flash Fiction Friday: The Doppelganger

"Isn't a doppelganger usually your double?", asked her friend. "Yes," she answered. "but in this case my doppelganger copies me instead of looking like me. My style, my personality... even my blog." She let out a disgusted sigh. "Is her blog any good? the friend asked. "Hell no!" She yelled. Both friends exploded into laughter.

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Theme Thursday: Palm

In the 15th century Goa along a trade route was a sleepy palm shaded place,
missionaries from the Society Of Jesus were sent for the proselytization race.


Rice was offered to those who would accept a new faith and way of life,
but these "Rice Christians" still kept their old beliefs despite possible strife.



A threat to the Catholic Church and all it stood strangling growth like a boa,
in 1545 St. Francis Xavier asked that the inquisition be brought to Goa.



Anti-Hindu laws were enacted to discourage worship of another kind,
Hindus were forced to listen to preaching in an effort to change their mind.


The inquisition promised to protect the converted to take up the new belief,
Some surrendered their faith while still others escaped and found relief.


It took 450 years until the inquisition was abolished and the records were lost,
16,000 people were tried and 57 sentenced to death paying the ultimate cost.


The fate of many in Goa at the hands at the inquisition is not known,
their stories remain untold under the palm trees that have grown.







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Wordless Wednesday: Meet Me At The Corner Of...

The Heavenly Muse

So where the hell have I been? I've been surviving. I left a relationship four months ago to take control of my own life. Years of being controlled and told what to do and who to talk to had left me a shell of who I imagined I would be at 17. I realized that I had given up on living and had ceased to fight for me. I went with the flow. I was alive but I was not living.

17 years after I had started sleepwalking through life I suddenly woke up. I wanted my freedom. I wanted to live. So I left. Once I left I sank myself financially. I had two little ones who needed daycare and my salary had not suddenly increased. The fear, the worry, the stress... it all took its toll.

I went from being a prolific writer who previously saw positivity in the dark to being unable to articulate myself and seeing life as pointless while my new found sunshine and light blinded my eyes. I wasn't able to write.

I slept with my muse. I kissed it daily. I held it and caressed it. Everyday I pledged my love to it but my muse failed me. As I desperately clung to it trying to get back my inspiration I found myself farther and farther away from who I once was and the work I was once able to create. I was abandoned by my heavenly muse. Everyday we made love and everyday I was left alone. It was slowly killing the spirit within me.

One day I realized that my heavenly muse could only do so much. There were only so many ways to save the drowning. I had to save myself ...again. So I have found my voice again and found me. I have discovered that I'm ready to write again. I have been kissed by my muse and I am inspired.

So.... to put it another way .... I'm baaaaaaaaack!

55 Flash Fiction Friday: Decode

"So my choices are either someone who wants to control me and never says they love me or someone who says they love me forever... but lies to me," He said to his friend. "Those are some interesting options," she said grimacing. "Yeah," He said sadly. "Decoding my future's so bright I gotta wear shades."

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Wordless Wednesday: Even Space Isn't Safe From Litter

Song Saturday: Keane -Somewhere Only We Know

55 flash fiction friday: silly rabbit...sarcasm is for adults

"So I hit him because he was getting on my nerves" the little kid said. The adult looked at him.incredulously and said," Oh, that is an idea. I think I am going to start hitting everyone who bothers me." The little kid looked very confused.Then the adult remembered.
Second graders don't get sarcasm.

Theme Thursday: Camera

"I don't know if I can ever get past this," I said. "Why can't you move on?" you asked. "I don't know if they could ever make it up to me," I said sighing. "Listen, they aren't making film for your polaroid anymore. It's time to let go of that camera and throw it out."






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Wordless Wednesday: Red Light, Blue Light, Blue Light, Red Light,....Crap

Song Saturday: Carolina Liar -Show Me What I'm Looking For

55 Flash Fiction Friday: Two Ships Passing In The Night

After two days spent in the same harbor the ships were back to just passing by each other for a few hours every night. One ship took on water and started sinking. The other ship threw out a line of rescue. "I won't let you down again," the rescuing captain said to the sinking boat.

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Theme Thursday: Candy

Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat

Rhymes chanted off on the run
Kids dressed up having fun
Knocking at doors asking for some

All grown up now and feeling old
I don't ask you for candy so bold
I just go to buy it where it's sold

Somehow it just doesn't taste quite as good
As Halloween candy asked for both polite and rude
So I find myself knocking at your door in a mood


Trick or treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat


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55 Flash Fiction Friday: I Thought It Was Thursday

"So five minutes ago I was standing at work and thinking about what to write for my Theme Thursday. Then it hit me.", I said. 'What hit you?", you asked. "That it is not Thursday anymore. That it is already Friday and worse yet Friday began at 8:00 P.M. Thursday night and I missed it."

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55 Flash Fiction Friday: Love In Reverse

"She told me how strongly she felt for him.", you said. "Did she say how he felt about her?", I asked. "Well, she said that for him it was building everyday and growing but for her it was already at that point." "Will it ever meet or does she have to love him in reverse?"

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Theme Thursday: Wrinkle

Sometimes life doesn't turn out as planned,
despite your schedule and how it's manned,
you find all your expectations getting canned.



You might not be where exactly where you expected to be,
the scenery might not be what you thought you would see,
sadness swallows you leaving you feeling bent like a knee.


More often than not you will find,
it seems as if fate has developed its own mind,
and the road of life can be cruel and unkind.


Time has filled your face with deep lines and creases,
some from frowns and some from laughter that appeases,
as twists and turns come faster and greatly increases.


Life has thrown a wrinkle your way,
it is up to you to decide what to say,
do you give up or find your way.


The answer sought isn't easy to find,
search your soul, heart, and mind,
try to find a way to feel hope so kind.


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Redux

...on the thirteenth of March a new day dawned and now a blog has been born.