“You must take communion with the damned,” she heard Gallant’s words echoing. Why, she still wondered, was she ear-marked for the quest.
They, of course, were plotting to punctuate her rehearsal with stones of ambiguity; little things such as holding to tiny doubts about fracturing the icy wall.
If she back-turned, removed herself from the ritual and failed, then 100 years of sterility awaited her people.
a mlmm mélange: Sunday writing prompt: “the little things;” Monday’s wordle words; Tuesday’s photo challenge 374 all mushed together in less than 100 words.
wordle word list: gallant; ear-marked; sterility; fail; stone; plotting; rehearsal; punctuation; ambiguity; 100; back-turned; communion
Also thinking of a challenge I used to participate in: responding to an image with a story of only 3 sentences; this piece of postcard prose has 4.
feature image: Marta Bevacqua
July 17, 2021 at 12:07 am
Nice to see I’m not the only one who multi-tasks prompts. You did so much impact with so few words, in an excellent story to boot. Wonderful use of the prompts.
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July 17, 2021 at 2:46 am
Thanks. Sometimes the prompts do just seem to “fit” with each other. There are so many great prompts out there I never manage to get to use as well.
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July 14, 2021 at 5:27 pm
Thought provoking!
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July 16, 2021 at 10:15 am
Thanks. I’ve been melanging lately as a way of catching up. Sometimes the various mlmm prompts do flow into each other. Things are rather crazy here, so not sure when I can concentrate on one prompt at a time, lol.
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July 16, 2021 at 3:22 pm
Life does tend to get in the way. I haven’t submitted anything other than my MLMM prompts for the last few weeks due to “life”. Hope everything is okay with you…”crazy” can mean so many things
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July 17, 2021 at 2:45 am
Most immediate issue: last week, during a storm, a tree limb the size of an entire tree crashed down by our house. It pierced the roof of the little house we rent, leaving a large hole in one place in the attic, and denting the roof and rain gutters in another. The limb filled the whole yard: we had to get in and out through a window in the porch. A tree company came the next day and cleared it away, and tarped the roof. The owner’s insurance has been slow in okaying repairs. Also “juggling” two other big issues so life is crazy in so many ways. Life happens; sometimes more than others.
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July 17, 2021 at 3:40 pm
Holy cow!! A very unexpected stress
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July 14, 2021 at 3:36 am
That’s a really interesting thought there! 💜
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July 15, 2021 at 1:51 pm
Thanks!
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July 15, 2021 at 4:15 pm
💜
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