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“Do I look like a barista, Peter… you know where the mugs are.”

Walking out of the kitchen, impromptu hand warmer clasped tightly, Lizzy headed towards the sunroom; setting her mug on an end table, she grabbed a blanket her mom had crocheted that was draped over the back of the couch; retrieving her coffee, sat crossed legged in the Papasan chair.

Peter followed with the mug he’d always use when he visited her at the house, her mother referred to it as “Pete’s mug”; she loved Peter, rarely missing an opportunity to tell them they were meant to be.

Staring quizzically at her ex, Lizzy couldn’t help reciting the iconic line from Peter Pan, “All children, except one, grow up“.

“What the hell, Lizzy, not that Peter Pan thing! First time your mother teased me with that she might as well have put a brand on my forehead”; laughter quickly gave way, “I’m sorry, Liz, about your parents, I always liked them.”

Link to last week’s episode “Blast from the Past”.

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
Language. Colorful, complicated – there’s way more adjectives beginning with “c” to describe it. Single syllable, multi-syllabic… words. In essence, vocabulary. As writers we’re fortunate to possess an abundance of vocabulary words. To use in? Writing exactly 6 sentences of story, next scene, piece of poetry or soc. Words forming a Six Sentence Story for this, Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog Hop! Seeing as I’ve got to fly like the wind this fine Wednesday morning, I must take my leave but not before extending an invitation to join in the event of the week with the most awesome group of people this side of the universe. What say we write, write and if there’s more, keep on writing until we have that Six.

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link the URL to your post via the blue “Click here to enter” button below.
Link is live Wednesday 6:00 PM, ends way late Saturday night!
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 

PROMPT WORD:  BRAND

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=c0efdbe6b4add43dd7ef“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
– Emily Dickenson

What is up with the highlight shit! Oh, wait. Got it. See. I  just learned something new. And that my friends, is how a Ten Things of Thankful blog post comes into existence. The act of expressing gratitude, even for the seemingly small things, possesses power. For good. To share this good, we have the Ten Things of Thankful Blog Hop. If you’ve a mind to, join us in sharing your thankfuls and expressions of gratitude for those people, animals (yeah, they’re people too), places and events that bring the smiles to our faces. My list? Coming right up….

1. Flipping an omelet in midair! Yes, it was the first time. Next time? Way higher!
2. Being raised in the Northeast. Don’t care for extreme cold, but I can handle it.
3. Demonstration of kindness up close and personal, this past Friday. See #4.
4. By Friday, I was able to clear sufficient ice packed snow to allow me to drive my car out of my parking spot.
5. Power was not lost.
6. Six Sentence Stories, the community.
7. the Wakefield Doctrine.
8. Music
9. Those who choose to know me.
10. This day, in all it’s frigid cold.

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
Funny about the cold. After awhile you kind of get used to it, body adjusts. Doesn’t mean you like it. It simply means we haven’t yet found the path leading to discovery of its positive aspects. Because at the end of the day, even our most despised fiction characters have some redeeming qualities don’t they? Not all is always lost. There’s opportunity to peel back more layers. Ha! Thought I was going to talk about weather today?! Why on earth would I talk about weather when we’ve got the business of storytelling to talk about. Characters and next scenes. We’ve got poetry and soc’ziz to write. We’ve got another Six Sentence Story to write in exactly 6 sentences for Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog Hop. Seeing some new faces so reminder: if you’re having difficulty linking the URL first time out, shoot me an e-mail, I will assist. First time can be tricky but after that, it’s all cake.

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link up at Wednesday’s post. Link goes live at 6:00 pm through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers.

PROMPT WORD:  BRAND

“When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.” – Joy Harjo

Lizzy fumbled for her phone on the nightstand, “what the hell, it’s 7:00 am!”

Grabbing a sweatshirt off the top of the hope chest at the foot of the bed, she bumper-car’d out of the bedroom, along the hall and downstairs to the front door; raising on tip toes to look through the peep hole, Lizzy could see nothing of a man except his head which was turned looking back at the street; he wasn’t a delivery person.

Hearing the door opening, the man smiled, “Hey, Lizzy”.

“What the fuck, Peter”, pivoting on one foot, Lizzy left the man in the doorway, walked down the hallway to the kitchen, turned on the coffee machine and stood facing it as if she could will it to brew instantly.

“Somehow that wasn’t quite the greeting I imagined.”

“Huh, let’s check the facts, Pete: you dumped me for a California girl, followed her out to the West Coast like a dog in heat and I haven’t seen or heard from you in 7 years give or take, so yeah, ‘what the fuck’, is about right”.

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
What the heck happened? The question knocking at my brain’s back door. Darn weather has frozen the rafters shut. What’s a body to do? Write a Six Sentence Story, of course! Heck, write two! Whether snow has us trapped at home, or heat sends us running for cover, no better excuse to break out the legal pads and pens. Who knows what inspiration will tumble down a snow bank, or blow across a sand dune. So – prompt word? (insert here!) Next comes story, next scene, sliver of poetry or suddenly sudden soc. Write them in exactly 6 sentences and we have a Six Sentence Story for Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog Hop. Try saying that three times really fast.

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link the URL to your post via the blue “Click here to enter” button below.
Link is live Wednesday 6:00 PM, ends way late Saturday night!
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 

PROMPT WORD:  CHECK

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=c0efdbe6b4add43dd7ef“A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beats, and unforeseen elements within foreseen parameters.”
– Julio Cortázar

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
Late start this weathered morning. Surely fodder for all manner of stories, right?! Instead of snow and ice, what else could it be precipitating? If, that is, you live where such weather is the norm. Or! what if it wasn’t but it was! We are Six Sentence Stories.
A destination for sharing stories and poetry, next scenes and soc’zes in exactly 6 sentences. Have prompt word, will travel to Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog Hop.
Mr. Brin has a point. Let the sifting begin!

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link up at Wednesday’s post. Link goes live at 6:00 pm through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers.

PROMPT WORD:  CHECK

“For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, sniffed, tried, and    discarded. A mind that’s afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.” – David Brin

With recent staffing changes and delay in onboarding new hires, everyone felt the pressure; in the midst of plummeting morale, Aaron tried unsuccessfully to hide the fact he was still heartbroken Lizzy had shot him down.

“See your boyfriend at the cemetery today, Liz?

Ignoring the rancor in Aaron’s comment, Lizzy smiled, “you’re jealous because I’d pick a “dead” man over you.”

Patting his head like a mischievous little boy, Lizzy left Aaron in the lunch room, her eyes saying what his friends already had – “there’s plenty more fish in the sea”.

Lizzy left Sure Thing Copy & Editing Services, Inc. late that day, well after close of business; while she didn’t mind the overtime pay, she was beginning to resent work cutting into the time she got to spend in the evening working on her own stories.

Did she really eat almost an entire mushroom pizza? Putting two slices of pizza in the refrigerator for the next day, or later (her stomach whispered) she returned to the living room; pulling a leather journal from a shelf on one of her bookcases, grabbed her black pen and curled up in her father’s favorite oversized chair near the bay window; slowly the pen began moving over the dull white of the pages  – “The young woman loved to walk in the nearby cemetery on her lunch hour...”

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
We’ve all “been there done that.” When some days we wake up with, or get hit upside the head in the middle of the day, with a story idea. And we rush to get it down on a page. Other days, it’s like a slow brew and still others, we open the cupboard and it’s seemingly bare. For all these scenarios, there is a constant available, like the North Star, to guide us to the repository that holds innumerable story ideas. That constant? Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog  Hop. A prompt word +  exactly 6 sentences are the tools by which we forge and carve a piece of poetry, a story, next scene or, “hey, what was that!” soc. We have stories. We have Six Sentence Stories. Let’s rock and roll ’em! 😎

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link the URL to your post via the blue “Click here to enter” button below.
Link is live Wednesday 6:00 PM, ends way late Saturday night!
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 

PROMPT WORD:  FISH

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=c0efdbe6b4add43dd7ef“The faster I write the better my output. If I’m going slow, I’m in trouble. It means I’m pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.” – Raymond Chandler