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Writing Prompts #238 & #239


I'm back! Did you miss me? Last week the prompts were interrupted by our Roll The Dice Anthology going live. I do hope you took the time to read them all and leave the authors a review.

 

Anyway I have some nice new ideas to get your mind going and hopefully find you writing again. So for your writing possibilities I present these two new ideas.

 

Prompt 238 - Creative

 

Tag - The Offer

 

You haven't been on a date in months and truthfully, you've let work take over your life. Then out of left field your co-worker asks you out. However, it isn't a normal date they want. What is the offer they are making to you?

 

Prompt 239 - Creative

 

Tag - First Line

 

"Just give me a minute, please."

 

So hopefully one or the other of these might appeal to you. Curious what others have done? Well if we look at the last set of prompts there were a few authors who picked up the gauntlet and created some interesting answers to the prompts. We had a new author attempt the prompts by the name of Kitt. Let me show you what Kitt created.


Prompt 236

 

“I have to have a talk with your mother”. Carl shook his head distractedly.

 

“I really wish you wouldn't. She is mad enough at me as it is. If she finds out I took this to you instead of talking to her about it, I will not see the outside of the house till Christmas!”

 

Rob shuddered and sank down onto the sofa behind him. Carl was a good friend. He could bring just about anything to him. Problem was, he had started out as mom’s friend before he and Rob had gotten tight. Sometimes that really got in the way. Carl had this really defined sense of right and wrong, and if he thought there was a need tell Rob’s mom something no amount of pleading or threats would stop him.

 

“Rob, listen to me. Your mom only wants the best for you. I've known her since you were a tadpole for god’s sake. I can’t keep something as big as this one from her. I said I would take you in for the testing and I mean that, but I just can’t justify not telling her. I know it’s free at the student health office, and you are over 21, but she is still your mom. You have to tell her or I will.”

 

“I thought I was doing everything right here. I never figured on finding him in bed with that whore.”

 

“I know kiddo, but you did. Now we need to deal with all the possibilities that has created. Do I need to ask where you stand with him?”

 

“Where do you think I stand? He is outta here. I tossed all his clothes out the damned window and he is lucky I didn't toss him and his little twink out the window after them.”

 

Carl chuckled to himself. He knew it wasn't funny but he really would have enjoyed being a fly on the wall that afternoon.

 


So are you curious to what else Kitt had to say? I hope so. You can read the rest of her story and the rest of the authors who decided to use this prompt here - http://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/37104-prompt-236-creative/

 

You can read the responses to prompt 237 here - http://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/37106-prompt-237-creative/

 

Have a good week everyone and hope to see your response here next.

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Kitt

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Prompt 239

 

                ”Would you just give me a minute, please?!?!”

 

                Robs mind was racing. How was it he kept finding himself in these impossible situations? There was the time the ladder had fallen when he was attempting to prune the apple tree. Of course there was no within earshot to help. And the time he was trying to fish his keys out of the gap between the copier and the shredder.  Damn shredder had eaten his favorite tie and tried to strangle him besides. And the day the awning poles fell over in the workshop and blocked him into the lavatory.  He had been stuck in there for hours.

 

                But nothing like this had ever happened before. Not to Robbie, king of the improbable situations. How the hell was he supposed to fix this one? His mind was racing.

 

                The little girl kept crying and shouting for him to do something. Her mom was trying to stay cool about things, but it was obvious that she was getting more and more wound up.  And the twit with the camera certainly wasn't helping!

 

                At least the horse wasn't panicking.  Since he was the one at risk this time that’s a good thing Rob thought to himself. SOMEONE had to keep a cool head!

 

                 He walked once around the trailer, looking in from each door and window, studying things from every possible angle. He was trying to get a handle on just how to get this silly pony out of the impossible position he had put himself into.                                   

 

              Everything had gone so smoothly with this pick up until now.  The horse had been sweet and cooperative, had walked right onto the trailer for Rob.  Moving horses you are not familiar with can be a challenge. Some of them don’t like strangers handling them, some don’t like trailers, and others can just be smart-asses that want to test your patience.

 

                Then the twit with the camera came running out wanting one last picture before we left to bring him to his new home, her pack of unruly dogs running out of the house ahead of her raising holy hell at the sight of a stranger with a trailer in “their” farmyard. The horse had freaked at all the noise, and was just small enough that he was able to rear in the warm blood trailer, both his front hooves coming down in front of the belly bar. Now he was standing quietly thank god, but with both front legs hanging in midair and a “help me human” look on his face.

 

                 Rob shook himself and then dropped  down to one knee to talk to the little girl.

 

                 “Okay Suzie, I need your help here. Can you help me?”

 

                 The ten year old sniffled a time or two and nodded her head.

 

                 “Good girl. Now your new pony here had gone and gotten himself into a tight spot and it’s up to us to get him out of it. Can you run to the tack room and get me a handful of sweet feed in a little bucket and a carrot?”

 

                  The little girl turned on her heal and raced off, Rob sighed in relief. No more screaming could only help the situation and maybe now he could think.

 

                  He approached the escape door slowly. Last thing he needed was to spook the horse again. Talking quietly he moved into the doorway, all the time watching those sharp front hooves hanging at what was from the ground his head level.

 

                  “Okay little man; let’s see how we are going to get you down from there. That’s a good boy, stay nice and quiet. We don’t want you getting hurt now do we?”

 

                   Rob stroked the horse’s neck gently, trying to build trust in one hell of a hurry. He tugged experimentally on the belly bar latch, but with 1200 pounds of horse leaning on it there was no way to just open it and let him down that way.  Rob continued to run his hands over the frightened animal, trying to determine if he had any injuries that might complicate things.

 

                   When he reached the hooves it was a toss-up who was more shocked.  As Rob ran his hands over the pastern the horse pulled his hoof back and up, almost like Rob had tickled him. The next thing Rob knew the pony had reared up slowly and just pulled himself back over the belly bar and was now standing quietly looking very proud of himself. He turned his head out of the trailer door and nuzzled Rob, just as the little girl was running back with the treats for her new pony.

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Mann Ramblings

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you sure didn't waste any time on this one, Kitt! They were both good pieces! Nice work. :)

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joann414

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That was funny to imagine Kitt. "probably not for the poor horse though:P

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