May 21, 2024 – Tessa Dean

We were always looking for something different when it came to our vacations. We have rented travel trailers and mobile homes, slept in tents, and even found a motel built in treehouses. Now, someone just told us about a motel shaped like a beagle. I couldn’t wait to see the pictures of the place my friend, Gina, was excitedly telling me about.

Gina pulled out her cell phone and pulled up the pictures. She handed me the phone and told us all about the rooms that were shaped like black, brown, and white beagles. I was simply amazed. I just knew that we had to find out how to book this place. It would be fun to stay there and tell everyone about it when we got home. My friend, Lizzy, always wanted to know what we had found for our next unusual vacation so she could try it, too.

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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

#FSS, Fiction, Prompt, Writing

Fandango’s Story Starter #150 and the Three Things Challenge #M701

May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 Tessa

Fandango

It’s time for my weekly Story Starter prompt. Here’s how it works. Every Tuesday morning (my time), I’m going to give you a “teaser” sentence or sentence fragment and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a story (prose or poetry) around that sentence/fragment. It doesn’t have to be the first sentence in your story, and you don’t even have to use it in your post at all if you don’t want to. The purpose of the teaser is simply to spark your imagination and to get your storytelling juices flowing.

This week’s Story Starter teaser is:

Arlene panicked when she realized she had sent the text to her boss, rather than to her boyfriend.

If you care to write and post a story built from this teaser, be sure to link back to this post and tag your post with #FSS. I would also encourage you to read and enjoy what your fellow bloggers do with their stories.

And most of all, have fun.

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I am also including the prompt from Di’s Three Things Challenge #M701

The three words are:

ASHEN
PALE
COLOURLESS

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Mistaken Identity

By Tessa Dean May 2024

Arlene panicked when she realized she had sent the text to her boss, rather than to her boyfriend. She tried to think if she could possibly unsend the text, but she wasn’t very smart when it came to smart phones and didn’t know if it was possible to unsend or not.

Her boss texted her back almost immediately. Her face turned ashen, pale, almost colorness if that is possible in her embarrassment. She was terrified to open the text.

She had mistakenly sent her boss the text meant for her boyfriend David. The text contained a nude picture of her taken in a moment when she wasn’t thinking clearly. He had always begged her to send him nude pictures in return for some of him. She had always refused and didn’t think it was appropriate. Now in her haste at his begging for one she had mistakenly sent the text including the nude picture to her boss. She could only imagine what he was thinking right now and here was a text from him that she was terrified to open.

Arlene needed her job and she was almost positive her boss was firing her. After all he was married and had never even hinted that he might be interested in her and she could only imagine what he must be thinking right now.

She moved to open the text and get it over with. She could hardly believe what she was reading. Mr. Connelly had written back just a quick message. “Just say when, baby!”

He wasn’t firing her, but he obviously expected her to sleep with him. Now what?

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 — Chord

May 21, 2024 Tessa

Fandango’s Rules For the One Word Challenge

Welcome to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “chord.”

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.

And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. Show them some love.

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The scene of the accident struck a chord deep within me. Many years ago my dad had been in a severe car accident and his car, not only smashed like an accordian, burst into flames just minutes after he and his passenger had gotten out of the car. The car was totaled and they were lucky to be alive. My dad had to pull his friend out of the car as he was stuck from when the car had crumpled. My dad was brave and even though he knew his life was in danger he would not leave the man in the car. I admired him for that and I don’t know if I would have been able to do that myself. I am not brave. My father was truly a man to look up to.

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