The Serialists for October 3rd
Sheilagh Lee has a new serial started. Great to have you with us again, Sheilagh.
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Goodbye Trailer Court!
Some of you all might remember that my family and I moved into a real house a while back. What I might not have mentioned is that I’ve been working on fixing up the trailer ever since. Mostly it’s been a matter of painting as fast as carpel tunnel would allow, but some of it involved replacement of walls that acquired holes and just general repair. I’ve been at Lowes or Home Depot at least once a week all this time.
Finally, I placed a classified ad in the local paper. It came out Monday. I got the first call even before I shoveled the kids out the door to go to school and made an appointment to show the place at noon.
The guy who bought it had another place he was thinking about, but made a reasonable offer, which I accepted on the terms that we close before the end of the month. The trailer park where it’s sitting requires and application process for both trailers moving in and people moving in. I had to paint part of a porch in order for the trailer to pass. He got the green light on Friday, and we made the exchange of money for title right then.
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Basketball Practice
Jill: No fair! That’s traveling. If you can’t dribble, can you at least get on your feet?
Previously in Jack and Jill: Glassy Eyed
For more posts with travel go to Keyhole Pictures
Staying Strong
He came to us because
too many friends said
he would be happier, friendlier, safer, better
with a little therapy.
We gave him a questionnaire. Every answer said
he was happy.
We asked him the same questions. Every answer said
he was fine.
We sat down to talk, just talk
and he burst into tears.
The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is hosted by the G-man, a host with the most.
13 Things in my Cupboard
1. plates
2. More plates
3. Mac and Cheese
4. A big jar of cereal
5. Flour
6. Dried Beans
7. Baking soda
8. Cookies
9. Pasta
10. Casserole pans
11. Pot lids
12. Grits
13. Sugar
Suzie’s House 279 : Band Meeting
Bruce didn’t think much of the house where Gene lived now. The place he lived before, back when he lived with the old drunk, had to be less than half as old, and it wasn’t brand new or anything. He knew some people got into these creaky old houses, but Bruce wasn’t one of them.
The Serialists for Sept. 26
This week we are featuring Ann Pino’s intriguing series, Points of Departure. She tackled the meat of the issue for Brent last week in asking if he’s a martyr. Great work, Ann.
This is the hub for The Serialists, a meme for people who post original, serialized fiction on their blogs. If you have one or more posts you would like for us to read, please put the direct link(s) to the post(s) in the linky. Remember to visit one another and comment. We all want to hear from our readers.
Gardens and Weddings
I watched with fascination as a neighbor I don’t generally talk to put in a nice, raised vegetable garden right in the middle of their front yard, then completely wiped it out over night to put in a dance floor for a wedding/reception that they hosted in their yard. I don’t think they even collected any of the vegetables from their garden before doing it. Now there is a big bare spot where their garden used to be and some heaps of soil that seem destined for a decorative boarder around the yard.
I don’t think I’d have done that. I’d have made people dance around the raised bed. What would you do?
Car
Today’s theme is automobile. I had this mediocre idea involving an automatic wheelchair, but don’t have the time to put it together, so here’s a repost of a previous Jack and Jill. Now if only I could remember the words to go with it.
Sign of the Times
“What is the world coming to,” Grandma used to say.
The news at 6, the latest fashions, the
shift in the cultural paradigm.
For everything, a grunt and a shake of the head.
I laughed.
It’s just the way of the world.
But now, I too, have come to wonder.
“What’ll they come up with next?”
The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 is hosted by the G-man, a host with the most.
A Random 13
1. I spent yesterday (Wednesday) carpet cleaning.
2. That’s a lie. I hired my son to do it, then helped him with it.
3. Even though I didn’t do the worst of it, my hands hurt from gripping.
4. There are three area rugs I’d love to do before returning the machine, but there’s no way I could clear them off enough to make it worth the effort before my 24 hours are up.
5. Mr. Al is feeling under the weather. He hasn’t had to stay home from a cold in several months.
6. The younger our kids were, the more often we got sick.
7. In a few more years, they will both be out of the house. Then we might not catch colds at all.
8. He’s convalescing in a yukata. A yukata is kind of the casual version of a kimono.
9. Meanwhile our cat is still slowly recuperating from having been hit by a car.
10. For a while he was howling and growling piteously.
11. Turned out one of the bones in his crushed hip had come loose from the plate they put in to hold it all together.
12. He’s on pain meds now, and is much happier.
13. But he’s still no good at using the litter box.
Suzie’s House 278 : 24 Hours?
What a long day. Gene crawled into bed and didn’t even bother to turn his mp3 player on. Too tired. He scrunched down into the blankets. What was that word Tracy used? Nestle? Only she said it like the chocolate instead of the word that made him think of little birds in a nest.
It was like that other word she kept messing up. The one for liquor, only not. Oh, right. Absolute. She kept saying ablute. Was that even a real word? Sometimes she did it wrong just to see if he’d fall for it. She was a lot smarter than people thought.
The Serialists of September 19th
I love it when a serialist like Alice Rozen keeps up with a good serial. Keep up the good work, Alice.
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