Week TEN, people! We’re officially in double digits. Can you believe it?
Don’t forget to share this challenge with friends, friends of friends, and random strangers. There are only six degrees of separation across the world, after all. (And speaking of, stay safe out there. Wash your hands!)
Onto the prompts:
| Prompter Name | Prompt | Promptee |
| Becky Jones | A team rivalry between two schools of magic gets out of control. What’s the game and what happens? | B. Durbin |
| Cedar Sanderson | Aphrodite riding sidesaddle on a goose. https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/K10.3.html | nother Mike |
| B. Durbin | “Nice dress.” “Thanks; it has temporal pockets.” | Leigh Kimmel |
| nother Mike | He was bent over, praying, with his hands together, when the other hands grasped his in support. He blinked, and then noticed that the hands holding his were blue… | Fiona Grey |
| Fiona Grey | Forensic analysis revealed… | Becky Jones |
| Leigh Kimmel | “Year of the Cat” by Al Stewart https://youtu.be/Ak_MTXQALa0 | Cedar Sanderson |
And here are your spares. Grab one and dance your fingers across the keyboard, joining in the throes of whirling creation.
| Spare prompt | Finally asleep, when the cat throws up beside the bed at 1:47 am. I know, because I look at the clock before I remember I don’t have a cat… |
| Spare prompt | You pick up the remote and click it, and the fish tank changes channels… |
As they say in Persian, khaste nabaashid, may you not be tired. Nor your phalanges, typing merrily away. Well done, all. Can’t wait to see you in the comments.
Header image from the Smithsonian Institute’s Open Access Online Platform repository, Creative Commons (CC0). Background artist Arthur Wesley Dow. Farsi added by Fiona Grey.
More Odds Than Ends 
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[…] week, another prompt from More Odds Than Ends. My week 10 prompt: Forensic analysis revealed… came from Fiona Grey Writes. It’s a continuation of my cursed […]
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Here’s mine. This cursed doll series is writing itself with some of these prompts. Thanks, Cedar!
https://moreoddsthanends.home.blog/2020/03/05/week-10-of-odd-prompts/
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First try… Eek, it’s a silly rhyme, rippling loose in time…
Aphrodite sits in her saddle,
A smile lighting up her face,
No need for a paddle,
Her goose knows the race.
Up hill, and over dale,
As they run with the wild geese,
What a strange tale,
The wild goose chasing peace!
Aphrodite on her goose,
Side-saddle for the day,
With a strange vine loose,
Beckoning all to join the fray!
For the odds they would play,
And the rest would watch in dismay,
As the geese of the gods went astray,
And the queen went away so gay!
Sorry, the rhythm got away from me a few places…
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The prompt was a picture of Aphrodite riding side-saddle on a goose… My hands were hurting this weekend, so I didn’t get much done, but I did come up with this tidbit. https://mbarker.dreamwidth.org/231702.html
Very loosely related to Do You Want Fries With That? (2235 words) https://mbarker.dreamwidth.org/2020/01/17/
Let me know what you think?
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[…] riding sidesaddle on a goose.” You could check out their prompt responses, and more, at More Odds Than Ends. Please join in the fun! There’s no wordcount limit, it doesn’t even need […]
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As Becky said, this prompted format lends itself well to serial stories. I have another bit of the Hatrack up now, a little short but I have no time. https://www.cedarwrites.com/2020/03/09/the-case-of-the-perambulating-hatrack-part-4/
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Misha, sorry, am just seeing your prompt submission. It’s added to this week’s list. My apologies!
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Done. No Thesis Cat this week, I’m afraid. She’s hiding after a trip to the vet (and is fine now).
https://fionagreywrites.com/blue-hands-of-the-three/
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Oho! Those blue hands… Go read it, you’ll be glad you did!
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Mine is now up on my LiveJournal at https://starshipcat.livejournal.com/711116.html. One of these days I definitely want to actually draw the comic.
I’ve been trying to spread the word. We’ll see if it brings in anyone new.
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Oh, wow! Comics! Even if I had to imagine them… I do like the little story. Kids try the darndest things…
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Oh, I really like this! That would be something I would do inadvertently since I’m one of those people who turns my pockets inside out looking for stuff…
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So now I get to say what inspired the prompt. It’s been cookie season, and I’ve been running cookie booths. There was one booth where I *swore* that we’d been given more in donations than the total we counted out at the end, but donations are fungible, so we just wrote down what we’d gotten. Then a week later, using the same money belt, we came up with more money than we should have had. So I just decided it was temporal pockets, throwing a $20 or more a week ahead in time.
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[…] My prompt for this week was “A team rivalry between two schools of magic gets out of control. What’s the game and what happens?” via Becky Jones. It took a bit longer to get this one together, and I never did mange to bring in why I called it The Platypus Cup. […]
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Gah. Two weeks to do this prompt. Part of the problem is that they canceled school *last* week, so I’ve been doing a lot of things I wasn’t prepared to do…
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