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Prompt 394 – Creative
Tag – List of words
Use the following words in a story – roses, dinner reservations, a broken toilet, a wet towel, and an owl.

Prompt 395 – Creative
Tag – Romantic Dinner?
You have come home to a surprise. Your home is clean, your favorite meal is sitting on the table, candles are lit, soft music is playing, and your favorite flowers are sitting in a vase by the kitchen sink. This would be very romantic, but you aren’t dating and you aren’t sure how someone got in your home. Is this a romantic surprise or are you being stalked?

This week I decided to feature the prompt response of an author we haven't featured for a while. Enjoy this prompt response to Prompt #392 by K.C.:

“What the hell are you watching?” Mom screamed when I walked in the front door.

 

I stood there, blank expression on my face, staring at my mom, wondering if she had taken her medication that day. “What are you talking about?” I asked, dropping my backpack to the floor.

 

That was when she held up the VHS video. It was THE Video! The one I had been watching after everyone had gone to sleep last night. One that I never ever ever ever wanted my mother to see! It was also the one I had raced to the video store to return before heading off to work at my part-time job at the leather shop.

 

How did she have it? I had left it in the drop-box at the store this morning. Racking my brain, I tried to figure out how this happened. It hit me. I must have put the wrong movie inside the case.

 

“Mom, it’s not what you think,” I pleaded, trying to keep myself out of trouble.

 

“Oh really, because when I pressed play, it looked exactly like what I think it is!”

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