Halfway through the year, here we are, another week of prompts. Keep trying! Not every try is a success, but every attempt makes forward progress, even if it feels like you’ve slid backwards. Movement, in any direction like the Brownian motion of gas molecules, comes out in the final equation to be ‘forward’ in the grand sum of things.

Toss	Ball	Catch
AC Young	The weird thing about the region was that it had plenty of lakes, but none of them had lake in their names.	Leigh Kimmel
Becky Jones	The street was unnervingly quiet.	Cedar Sanderson
Leigh Kimmel	The harder I worked to get finished, the longer it seemed to take.	nother Mike
Padre	They barely beat the storm home.	AC Young
Fiona Grey	“Someone returned the stolen turtle this morning.”	Padre
nother Mike	Someone yelled “Taste the rainbow” as the skies poured skittles all over the ground…	Becky Jones
Cedar Sanderson	The ship’s hold was full of trade goods	Fiona Grey

You don’t know until you try. And if you take a spare, you can try something new, something you haven’t done before. What is it you’ve been tempted to create, but weren’t sure you could succeed at? Do that!

Spare	The ancient ruins were no longer enigmatic
Spare	“Yeah, the problem started when he heard ‘morning’ rather than ‘mourning,’ and it went downhill from there.”
Spare	The institute across the boulevard was where the future was invented.
Spare	He held the lantern high and held his breath as he peered into the darkness.
Spare	Why aren’t there warning signs in department stores where the perfumes and other stinks hold sway?
Spare	The antique traders brought puzzles…