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My smile:
I have to say that my smile this week was the one I got from listening to Trent’s song, the one he mentions in his post. The song was upbeat and I really enjoyed it from begining to the end. Wonderful job, Trent!
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
Fandango’s Rules For the One Word Challenge
Today’s word is “strong.”
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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I used to be strong for a woman. I worked in a factory for many years and I was able to lift up my own pallets and load them onto the rails where we would push the full pallet out to the train that came around and picked up the full pallets of packed product.
I also worked up to being able to lift the large, heavy boxes of product and lift them up over my head onto the top layer of packed product. They were heavy and awkward.
And what used to tickle me most was all that heavy workout on my upper body allowed me to do more masculine pushups then the new men coming into the job. One guy actually made me show him that I could do more than he could. He quit before I did. Everyone watching clapped. He was embarrassed. I warned him, but he thought I was kidding with him. I was simply a woman, the supposedly weaker sex. Well I showed him!
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
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Your three words today are:
AVOID
SIDESTEP
EVADE
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Look Out She’s Coming
By Tessa Dean May 2024
I hate having to avoid some of the residents where I live, but some of them I need to evade their advances towards me. Sometimes I have to sidestep to avoid them as they head directly to me intent on invading my space.
There is one pervert who constantly eyes the women and then comes right up to them and says, “I’m available!”
Eww, no one wants to be anywhere near this guy. He is most disgusting and preys on any woman he thinks might fall for his line. None of us want to be bothered.
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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
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Here are this week’s questions:
1. Have you ever lied about your age? Yes when I was 15 and wanted to see a movie rated for 17 years old and up. I looked older than I was so I had no problem getting into the movie without a parent. I forget the name of the restriction now. I know it wasn’t G or PG, but the actual rating I have forgotten.
2. Is there any time in your life you would like to relive? When I was pregnant. I loved being pregnant. I especially loved feeling the life moving inside of me.
3. Do you own any antiques? I don’t think so. I do have an end table that I don’t know the age of and that might be, but don’t really know.
4. Would you like to know some of the history of places you’ve visited? Not really. History never interested me.
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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
Write a story about a character with a big decision to make. Write it in a point of view you don’t often use.
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Liz stared at the screen of her lap top. The sounds of the coffee shop faded out of her consiousness as she chewed on the nail of her right thumb. She chewed her nails when she was nervous.
She had just put “The End” on the last page of her memoir, but she now faced the decision on whether to publish it or not. Her life, had been everything, but happy and she didn’t want her family to know her true feelings on how she felt about them and what had transpired throughout her lifetime.
She never felt close to any of them and she had no one she really felt she could talk to about her feelings. This memoir would tell it like it was, no holds barred. Was she ready for someone to see it and confront her about how she felt and would they be upset with her airing her feelings for the world to see. Some of them would definitely be embarrassed to see it in writing.
Writing it had been cathartic and she definitely felt better to have expressed it all in words, but was she ready to face them? She didn’t feel she had a need to apologize to them because she had been the one who had gotten hurt, but they pretended that all was well within the family and if she published it, everyone would see things as she saw them all these years and not the pretty picture they liked to paint for their family and friends to see.
The longer she sat there, the more she worried about publishing it. She had full intentions of publishing it when she had started writing it. Now, she simply wasn’t sure.
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
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