Another week, another prompt. Most of us write short stories, but what do we do with the stories in our head that flitter about during the week? Do you work ideas into the idea for the week for complex layers filled with a multitude of ideas, or do they escape and drift upon the wind until remembered with grasping fingertips and stuffed hastily into a hodgepodge of story?
| Pitcher | Ball | Batter |
| Cedar Sanderson | He just wants to be a jerk about it | Fiona Grey |
| AC Young | Some years the wet season was unpleasant, with frequent heavy downpours. | Padre |
| nother Mike | That summer, they had a flood of sunshine, with occasional wind chimes… | AC Young |
| Fiona Grey | “I said to bring back sausages, not hostages!” | Leigh Kimmel |
| Becky Jones | The cat eyed the desk thoughtfully. | nother Mike |
| Leigh Kimmel | Just when we were almost finished, it started raining. | Becky Jones |
| Padre | “Excellent. I finally got all my geese in a row.” | Cedar Sanderson |
Weave in some spares to add complexity or the unexpected!
| Spare | They used cricket flour for the foundation |
| Spare | The pickpocket stole his wallet, but left a bloody knife in exchange… |
| Spare | When you have a plague of frogs, invite the french chefs… |
| Spare | Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you are one… |
| Spare | She crammed a whole life into a day |
| Spare | Each year, the fatigue grew into an ever-spiraling whirlwind. |
Here’s your image prompt for the week, a contrast of Crayola with the absence of color.
That’s it for this week – see you in the comments!
Images rendered by Fiona Grey using Midjourney.
More Odds Than Ends 
My offering for this week is up: https://acyoungauthor.substack.com/p/summer-scene
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oooo… a wash of color, and a swoosh of the brush! It’s art! Nice
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and what does all that have to do with leadership? I see you’ve encountered upper management’s ideas for improving leadership, too…
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You mean like a surprise scavenger run that resulted in multiple falls, a sprained ankle, a near-fight over who came in third place, and two people we spent watching for heart failure – and the planners didn’t even tell us to wear sneakers because the surprise was “more fun that way”?
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There’s an awesome “Murphy Brown” episode where they’re all dragged to a weekend long “leadership event”. Murphy’s team is absolutely inept and ready to kill each other while the “facilitator” is sneering and making fun of them. In the end, Murphy gets her team to work together to come up with an escape plan. It’s hysterical.
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Oh, I definitely must find the time to look it up! I don’t remember that one!
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https://professorornery.substack.com/p/dragon-rain
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oh! Construction work and dragon rain! Now we need the rest of the house!
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And now mine is up on my LiveJournal at https://starshipcat.livejournal.com/1601835.html. Even if I never actually use the scene, it was interesting to write.
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Becky Jones tossed me this softball…
The cat eyed the desk thoughtfully.
[hum, cat and desk and… well, there’s the normal trick that a cat plays with a desk, of course…]
Erwin watched his cat as it eyed his desk thoughtfully. Then Erwin grabbed him, and gave him a rub.
“No you don’t! I just straightened that desk up, and while I know you love to roll in my notes, I really need to get some work done for a change. And I don’t want to put you in the box!”
He chuckled, knowing just how much his cat disliked being put in the box. Of course, he didn’t like putting the cat in the box either! After all, you never knew what you would find when you opened the box later!
He scratched his head, then absentmindedly gave his cat a rub, too. Now there was a thought. When you opened the box, how did you know what you would find?
He set his cat down on the floor, and started to scribble. Maybe he would name this theorem after his cat!
[yes, yes, is the cat dead or alive? You know, Erwin’s theory? Okay, it’s silly, but… let’s open that box and see what we find, because it’s time to post!]
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