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The Six Sentence Café & Bistro can transition from a handful of patrons to slamming busy in the blink of an eye; today was one of those days – “I got this Mimi!”

Glancing back at the young woman seated at the bar, right elbow resting on the mahogany, pastry fork in a holding pattern between plate and mouth, I yelled, “it’s a slice of cake Aurelia, as Life Decisions go…!”

Half a dozen cocktails and 10 shots later, energy in the Café leveled down to controlled chaos, I noticed three things: Nick had left without anyone noticing, Chris had yet to reappear from wherever she’d wandered off to and Frank was nowhere to be seen; judging by the size of the tip he left made me wonder if maybe he felt guilty for ducking out so mysteriously.

Hand waving wildly from the opposite end of the bar, I headed back to Aurelia, empty plate in front of her, the glass beside the plate also empty, I grinned, “you have a question, young lady?”

“Not really, Denise, just wanted you to know Hūnga left – I didn’t see exactly where he went and thought you might want to know, I mean, is anyone in charge of him?”

There was still a nervousness about Aurelia or perhaps all it was was a fear that people might find her odd; “Thanks for letting me know; Hūnga no doubt has gone looking for Mimi.”

To borrow from the Outer Limits – There is nothing wrong with your television set laptops and tablets. Ms. Pie alerted me late this afternoon the InLinkz link was not working. From what I’ve determined, the issue is with Inklinkz, return errors being both 505 Server Error and 502 Bad Gateway. I will continue to monitor and hopefully, the SSS link will be accessible soon!
At 8:30 PM, it’s still unavailable.

Good from the bad? I get to thank everyone again. The Six isn’t the Six without all of you.

FRIDAY UPDATE! WE’RE BACK IN BUSINESS! INLINKZ ACTIVE AND OPEN FOR  LINKING OUR SIXES. 

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
Alright. So I blew it. For the second time in 3 months? I’ve transported what I now know to be a house centipede. A giant ass centipede startling me from the last wisp of sleepiness before 5:30 a.m. and only now I read they’re beneficial to have in one’s house as “They are nature’s pest control.” Sure. Anyway, keep, not keep? A relatively easy decision. What’s not always necessarily easy is what to keep in a piece of writing. The main purpose of a draft is to put down some words until they beg to be released – to roam among the whiteness that was a blank page until we have a sense of where they are leading us. Today, we’re lead to Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog Hop. Sentence by sentence, transported to our final draft, we are asked to share a story, next scene, soc or slice of poetry in exactly 6 sentences. Word count? Well, that’s where the fun begins, lol. Have at it people, Jason Statham’s got nothing on us.

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:  CHARGE

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=c0efdbe6b4add43dd7ef“You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
Approximately 2 hours, 24 minutes after official Solstice, I awakened. The sunlight pouring into the room as my eyes opened was of a quality to be felt, not described for what adjective or metaphor could suffice? Yet that is our ongoing challenge as writers. To convey in words stories and events, poetry and fleeting, fireball thoughts. In an age where verbal conversation feels as if it has succumbed to fire retardant, it is incumbent upon us to insure communication burns in our creative writing. In service of this (insert prompt word?😁), enter Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog Hop where we are challenged to write a story, next scene or piece of poetry in exactly 6 sentences. To borrow that iconic expression for excitement and enthusiasm, “burn, baby, burn”.

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:  CHARGE

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.” – Don DeLillo

“Order up!”

The Bartender set the mug of lager on the smooth surface of the bar and eased into a ritual that earned her a mention in the city newspaper’s Dining & Drinking section in the Saturday edition.

Bending over, eyes staring down the perfectly flat mahogany, confident of a bardown, she zeroed in on a customer at half the length of the bar in the direction of the restrooms and the ill-lit hallway that lead to the Manager’s Office. White foam still trying to escape the rim of the mug, she lined up her shot. Accelerating down the bar, the Bartender called ahead, “Yo, Frank – good to see you!”

Feeling his presence before seeing him, the Bartender turned as the Gatekeeper approached the bar, a young woman walking slightly behind him, Hunga keeping step with her. Setting her dust rag down, Denise smiled – “hey batgirl, you came back!”

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
This morning as I did my “rush around”, thoughts slamming around like subatomic particles inside my brain, I wondered “at what age do kids begin asking “why”. Only took a nano second because pretty much all of us know that answer. It’s at the onset of toddler-hood, of little kidness, when curiosity grips the reins. As writers, we’re fortunate to retain this childlike predisposition to ask “why”. It drives our characters and storylines, it primes the poetic faucet to begin pouring words onto the paper. A single syllable word seems to be at the root of it all in the world of creative writing. We’re here today, because this evening, the doors open to Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog Hop. We’re asked to write a story, next scene, soc or piece of poetry in exactly 6 sentences. Why? Because. We, are Six Sentence Stories.

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:  DUST

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=c0efdbe6b4add43dd7ef“The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.”
– George Bernard Shaw

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
Silence this morning. Yeah, wasn’t expecting it. My subconscious DJ had fallen asleep, left the needle scratching. So much for predictability, eh? You know what we can expect? This post, every Sunday. The post offering the latest prompt word upon the alter of creative writing, specifically for Thursday’s Six Sentence Story Blog Hop. We are invited to take this word and write with it – a next scene, story, soc or piece of poetry in exactly 6 sentences. Creativity is a muscle too so let’s stretch, pick up those weights pens, pump out those reps sentences and write a Six Sentence Story!

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: DUST

“Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day’s progress through the dazzling quicksand—the marsh of blank paper.”
– John Updike