#WeekendCoffeeShare, Photo Challenge, Prompt, Writing

May 10, 2024 Weekend Coffee Share

Natalie’s Guidelines and newest post is here.

Coffee, Pen, Notebook, Caffeine, Cup
Picture compliments of Pixabay.com

Thanks to Natalie, the Explorer, for hosting this prompt.

Grab a chair and something to drink. If you were here, I would tell you that things have not gotten any better in this assisted living facility. Things are worse in a lot of ways. They can’t keep staff so it constantly changes and the care is not great. I try not to complain too much because that simply makes things worse. And yes this is the same complaint. Different day, still the same nonsense.

I am working diligently on my prompts that I write and post to my blog. They are slowly getting longer than just a few sentences and I have even spent some time working on my memoir.

I am still having trouble getting to all of my doctor’s appointments. My one daughter is not available right now due to her own health concerns so that leaves one that has to take off of work early to take me to some of these appointments as most doctors don’t have evening or weekend hours. So far she has been able to take me, but in June there is an appointment that she can’t do and I don’t know if the other daughter will be able to take me or not since I don’t know if she is done her own health issues.

Mother’s Day is Sunday and I don’t know if my daughter’s will do anything. I know my son ordered something off of Amazon.com. He said it shoud be here on Saturday.

Tessa – 

Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses

New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com

Author – Old Writing –  http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com

About my life –  http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com

#SoCS, Fiction, Prompt, Writing

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS May 11, 2024

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Looking at the pile of bilss, Jessie knew she needed a loan to consolidate them into one lower payment. She went to an office that offered plans to help you pay off your debt and started the process. It brought the balances down on all of her credit cards and set up a repayment plan to have them paid off in 5 years. All of her bills were now set up as one loan payment due monthly.

Filing for bankruptcy had been her other choice and she didn’t want to do that as her credit would take even more of a ding than the repayment plan would do. She couldn’t miss a payment either or that would end the current set up and the loans would go back to the full balances due. She worked diligently to pay off the lone payment she had each month.

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Linda’s Rules for #SoCS!

After you’ve written your Saturday post tomorrow, please link it here to this week’s prompt page and check to make sure it’s here in the comments so others can find it and see your awesome Stream of Consciousness post. Anyone can join in!

To make your post more visible, use our beautiful SoCS badge! Just paste it in your Saturday post so people browsing the reader will immediately know your post is stream of consciousness and/or pin it as a widget to your site to show you’re a participant. Wear it with pride!!

2019-2020 SoCS Badge by Shelley! 
https://www.quaintrevival.com/

Here are the rules:

1. Your post must be stream of consciousness writing, meaning no editing (typos can be fixed), and minimal planning on what you’re going to write.

2. Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be. One sentence – one thousand words. Fact, fiction, poetry – it doesn’t matter. Just let the words carry you along until you’re ready to stop.

3. I will post the prompt here on my blog every Friday, along with a reminder for you to join in. The prompt will be one random thing, but it will not be a particular subject. For instance, I will not say “Write about dogs”; the prompt will be more like, “Make your first sentence a question,” “Begin with the word ‘The,’” or will simply be a single word to get you started.

4. Ping back! It’s important, so that I and other people can come and read your post! For example, in your post you can write “This post is part of SoCS:” and then copy and paste the URL found in your address bar at the top of this post into yours.  Your link will show up in my comments for everyone to see. The most recent pingbacks will be found at the top. NOTE: Pingbacks only work from WordPress sites. If you’re self-hosted or are participating from another host, such as Blogger, please leave a link to your post in the comments below.

5. Read at least one other person’s blog who has linked back their post. Even better, read all of them! If you’re the first person to link back, you can check back later or go to the previous week by following my category, “Stream of Consciousness Saturday,” which you’ll find below the “Like” button on my post.

6. Copy and paste the rules (if you’d like to) in your post. The more people who join in, the more new bloggers you’ll meet and the bigger your community will get!

7. As a suggestion, tag your post “SoCS” and/or “#SoCS” for more exposure and more views.

8. Have fun!

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Tessa – 

Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses

New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com

Author – Old Writing –  http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com

About my life –  http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com

#FOWC, Non-Fiction, Prompt, Writing

FOWC with Fandango — Arrogant

Fandango’s Rules For the One Word Challenge

FOWC

Today’s word is “arrogant.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, ÿplease manually add your link in the comments.

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The pervert traveled the halls on his motorized wheelchair and would stare at the women with an arrogant expression, followed by the words, “I am available!”

The women can barely control their disgust at his actions. Their reactions don’t bother him at all. He spends every day followng women around and getting in their faces with his declaration of “I’m available!”

Reporting him to management does no good. Sadly he is not the only pervert at the home.

Tessa – 

Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses

New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com

Author – Old Writing –  http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com

About my life –  http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com

Non-Fiction, Prompt, Word of the Day Challenge, Writing

Bookworm – Word of the Day Challenge

Rules for the Word of the Day Challenge:

Today’s word of the day is BOOKWORM.

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I am a bookworm. I have a kindle full of cozy mysteries and how-to books. I have a Kindle Unlimted account and I read more than the normal monthly amount of books so the membership is worth it.

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Tessa – 

Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses

New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com

Author – Old Writing –  http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com

About my life –  http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com

Fiction, Photo Prompt, Prompt, The Unicorn Challenge, Writing

The Unicorn Challenge-10/05/24

© Ayr/Gray

Rules from Jenne and C. E. Ayr:

A magical new weekly writing opportunity from me – Jenne Gray – and him – C. E. Ayr.
Visit this blog every Friday, read an amazing story from each of us, and then post your own even better effort in the comments below.
Or on your own blog and stick the link down in the comments.
The rules are:
Maximum of 250 words.
Inspired by photo prompt above.
That’s it.

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Lost!

By Tessa Dean May 2024

“Are you absolutely certain this is the right address, Annie?” Martin’s voice quivered with uncertainty as he turned to face her in the car’s front seat. The dilapidated building they were parked in front of looked eerily deserted.

“Yes, I remember it well. Mama and I always came here to have the car serviced. She mentioned just the other day that she had to come in for servicing the used car she had just bought.”

“This place is not open at all from what I can see. Maybe you forgot the address, and the GPS brought us here instead.”

“No, the address is correct, and I remember the building from all these years of coming here with her.”

“Did your mother actually bring the car in for servicing?”

“Well, I don’t know. I haven’t talked to her for a couple of weeks.”

“I will walk up and try the doors, but this place looks deserted, I’m telling you.”

“Fine, whatever.”

Martin got out of the car and approached the doors. He tried the handle, but it was locked. He knocked, waited a few minutes, and then knocked again. There was no answer.

“Call your mother, Annie, and find out if she brought the new car here.”

“The number is disconnected. That’s strange.”

“We’re going home now. I’ll find a place to take the car. You find your mother.”

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Tessa – 

Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses

New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com

Author – Old Writing –  http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com

About my life –  http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com

Fiction, Prompt, StoryADay, Writing

Fight To The End | StoryADay 2024 Day 10

THE PROMPT

Write a story about a character who is engaged in a contest that matters very much to them. You may or may not reveal the result, at the end. Your choice.

THINGS TO CONSIDER

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Debbie and her best friend, Aggie, were lined up with the rest of the runners. Both of them were warming up. They had a friendly wager going as to who would win today’s marathon. They were pretty evenly matched so it is usually a toss up as to who would win.

The gun was fired, and they were off. Debbie was out in front right away, with Aggie trailing on her heels almost. They started out slow so as not to tire themselves too quickly. Aggie started to slowly pull away from Debbie. They would do this off and on the whole race.

Just then Aggie twisted her ankle and fell. Debbie was torn between stopping to help her friend and continuing the race because she wanted to win. She ran a little bit further looking back to see if Aggie got up to finish the race, but she was still down.

Debbie couldn’t do it. She had to go back and help her friend. They had always run together. The other runners made their way around the two friends. Debbie and one of the EMT’s on the side of the road helped Aggie up and placed her on the stretcher that was brought out from one of the ambulances on the side.

Since there was a possibility that she had broken her foot or ankle they thought it best to take her to the hospital for x-rays. Aggle started crying and apologizing to Debbie for making her lose her spot in the race. “I am so sorry, Debbie.”

Debbie brushed off her apology. “You are my best friend and we do this together or not at all.”

Tessa – 

Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses

New Author’s Website – http://www.tessadeanauthor.wordpress.com

Author – Old Writing –  http://www.finallyawriter.wordpress.com

About my life –  http://www.tessacandoit.wordpress.com