As the choir sings Soul of My Saviour, I am handed a blurred photo that shows, through a gap in the curtains, a face, dappled by stained-glass colours, and a hand, cupping smarties like drugs. With a shock. I realised it is Father Thomas, clearly singing from the wrong hymnsheet.
Random Word: Ignominious
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Up at dawn because of dog**
** Rosie sleeps in the bedroom (long story) and in summer wakes me up at daybreak for reassurance that she isn’t alone. Funnily, never my wife who can sleep through an earthquake sleeps soundly. I, if I have had at least 5 hours sleep, is then very awake. For I’m that annoying guy from the hotel or camp who is chatty, smiley, full of get and go while you struggle to sip coffee and the world is in slow motion cotton wool for at least three more hours. So walk the dog says you (or tackle that garden you moaned about last week – please no need to turn abusive). I would walk her but then she goes back to sleep and gives me the ‘Why are you disturbing me look’, if I even venture to say walkies. So at 5.30am it’s catch up on the news, surf the net, do some writing and drink tea until someone surfaces. Given it’s nearly 9.am the solitude may end soon, honest. But 6WS on Show My Face isn’t even up yet. Sigh, it’s another cup of tea then.
He wrote,‘My singing is like birds at dawn, my old mum said, but here on stage again, I’ll be even better once you’ve taken the gag off.#vss
Random Word:Weltanschauung
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‘Oops’
Captain Har grabbed at the rising berrysmoothie but it broke into balls heading towards the Ambassador. Ambassador Zawrl twitched, never a good sign in an Atarian. Feck gravityless crockery, Har thought, as he shouted, ‘Pucker up and suck the fruit.’
Historians claim that the subsequent mistranslation was the cause of the Atarian Cold War.
Random Word: Smoothies
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You see I fancied her,
with her long legs
and went to talk
she wouldn’t,
and I couldn’t
so I didn’t
I asked a mate
our Tom
to put a word in
but he wouldn’t
and I couldn’t
so I didn’t
In the end
it was Peggy
who loved a lot
so she would
and I could
so I did.
Random Word: At Last
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Preacher Brio struggled down the cliff footpath. In London he saved fallen women. Here, he looked forward to the maid he was about to fell.
Random Word:Turpitude
As a child, he thought he could grab hold of the stars, they looked so small. As a man, he made the same mistake with women. #vss #theprompt
5:47 AM Jul 23rd via web
The zombie slouched into the Space Bar. ‘Yes?’ asked the bar-droid. The zombie looked round, confused. ‘Sorry,’ it said. ‘Wrong genre.’ #vss
Arson got tired of having to explain that his mother liked Orson Scott Card, and had thought "creative spellings" were a good idea. #vss
1:12 PM Jul 23rd via web
'I think we are all ignoring the elephant in the room' he said. Everyone looked around and there it was, hiding in the corner. #vss
Sun Jul 25 2010 20:06:22 (GMT Daylight Time) via web
‘Hello, hello is that the rescue folk? It’s Alfonso up Cliff farm, the one…well by the cliff. You can’t miss it, as you hit beach if you do. It’s Buttercup, she’s horned the water pipes. I’m standing on her now for’t call. You what? I don’t see owt funny.’
Random Word: OnStar
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leaves flutter
to curl crisp yellow
for my feet
to whisper through
as the breeze cools
Random Word: Walkies
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to him,
the ticking clock,
black and ivory faced
from IKEA,
said work was slow
to her,
it said a wasted life,
he put food on the table,
and starved her in bed
she wanted
the splash of an ocean wave
and for him to build a boat
but the clock
ticked on
Random Word: They belong together
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They sat avoiding each other. Finally, the silence broke. He said,’ I’ve a ticket for out of here.’Her touch said yes, but her eyes said no. The suitcase was put away.
They died, she first, then him and the town. His lost future would have saved it, and her.
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Random Word: Anathema
Who has time to do gardening? **
Mark looked at the mirror and finally said, ‘Hi, God.’
His wife sighed, and dug around for his pills, but God made sure they weren’t found.
Random Word:Omniscient
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eggs sit on my desk
shells broken
with toast half eaten
it’s yet another morning
cold like all the others
the phone blinks unwanted
as a fly rests
and is watched
while tea is sipped
an old comfort
downstairs no radio
now blares music
the letter sits discarded
and the clock is silent
forever stopped
Random Word: A cold one
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Maud disliked the hotel room, it’s bare walls and plain bed, screamed cheap to her way of thinking. But the horoscopes she got here made sense of her life. Putting a twenty down, she said, ‘Do us one that’ll get old Bradley to open her purse and you’ll get 10%’
Random Word: a fools money
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It was late, the machines at rest.I peered through at the vending-machine,full of sweetness,once a distraction,now as out of reach as a job.
Random Word:King's Ransom
I tried again w/ the same results. Disappointed, I dismantled the time machine I'd built. It was useless. It only travelled to Mondays. #VSS
Looking back, getting on a tube, a crowded one, full of commuters that wear suits and dresses as status badges, with your pockets full of insects, crawly insects, to save on postage, was perhaps a bad idea. Although it was the bending to kiss Susan that released mine…and hers.
Random Word: Instinctive
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the foot-bound students of the east and west lands
as those from the south never came
whilst the north, they say, was dead
except to those with true sight,
which because the dragons
had come to dance,
you find again.
Random Word: Dancing at the funeral
The tree spoke to me. It’s leaves crackled who was peering from windows to touch and pry secrets. In my bath, leaking blood dyes the warm water to a rosé glow. The appreciation of soft delicacy ruined by the thumping door but they are too late – she is saved.
Random Word: How long
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As he fall, air whistled by, and the star above him slowly closed. The music born with him, faded. He knew this time he’d gone too far.
I so wanted a star not for me
but for her
not for love
but because I once cared
** Rediscovered work but prefer not to!
** Been exceptionally quiet at work for weeks but I had my first normal work week – didn’t like it. I couldn’t write or read. I mean just give me the money. I don’t mind.
Random Word: Air Show
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‘The waiter will advise.’
‘Oh, it’s all so posh.’
Sidney smiled. He was so in for a bunk-up.
Bella distracted with cleavage to spike his drink.
Random Word: Sommelie
I want double shot and hold the cream
please REPHRASE
Jesu— Coffee, black. Strong
please REPHRASE
OK. Strong black coffee, please
Thank you sir
Random Word: Dark Horse
‘What? That’s stupid man,’
‘Sergeant, arrest this man.’
‘Er…sir, he’s a civilian.’
He has accursed me of being a drunk.’
‘Leave it to me sir.’
Once the Captain had staggered off, the Sergeant turned angrily to the driver. ‘Always report to me. He’s kept pickled to stop a worse SNAFU.
Random Word: Beware
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"My darling, could you please make my heart sing again by passing the salt?" Julie sighed and mentally filled out divorce papers.
Wed Jul 14 2010 07:17:56 (GMT Daylight Time) via web
I didn't understand at first. He was just the Bath-tub Killer. Then I figured out why. I’ve the truth here but pay right and it’s spiked.
Random Word:Grub Street
The sound of a penny-whistle lilted and danced around the gravestones before being cut short.
‘That was appalling,’said Ghoul Howlic ( 2nd order). Trainee Ghoul Screechy (10th order) trembled. Those able to raise a hand from the soil signalled that they agreed.
‘It wasn't bad enough to wake the dead.’
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Paul sat down and watched the young boys play.‘I want to stay.’
The old man sighed, ‘It’s not what I’ve taught you.’
‘Why shouldn't I dream?’
Tired, he struggled to wake up. But he now knew he must make each day their best day for as long as they had.
Random Words: For the boys
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Son is an extra on Casualty**
**Casualty is a weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest running emergency medical drama television series in the world.
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Running in with bare feet shocked the elders and amused the outsiders. All in vain, for true cost of his ‘new’ found electricity was known.
Random Word:Fire-Sale
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Look out there. Love him as much as this view. Think of each day as a new dawn. Don’t make my mistakes and you’ll have a good…where she go?
Random Word: Belvedere
The family sat in shock until cousin Elgin, asked, ’Say again.’
The lawyer sighed. ‘To keep it plain, the cat gets the lot.’
Cousin Elgin slumped down.
‘If the cat dies young, the Humane Society gets it. If the cat dies old, you’ll get it.’
Hands offering help shot up.
Random Word: Apples to Apples
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Josh was tired of waiting. He had lived by the good book so knew, he deserved the righteous place ahead of women folk. They did their best but as the Word said, they kept a man from getting on. But when he saw God, Josh knew he were in trouble.
Random Words: Too many girls
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This is a Twitter story that caught my eye this week. Click on the link by the image if you want to visit the story site. Or on the date stamp to go direct to the story.
4 hungry Vikings sat around the bonfire: Blood Axe, Strong John, Steel Scull and Ivar the Boneless. 3 Vikings sat around the bonfire. #vss
11:30 AM Jul 3rd via web
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It wasn’t the guy having a great tush that bothered her – at 70 she still window shopped. It was a niggle about her fellow’s helping hand.
Random Word: Callipygian
Perry was slow, they whispered. Only fit for a cuckold song, they sniggered. Not that he had disturbed his wife with any of her lovers – she was far too smart. Or so she thought. Who do you think was sleeping with the neglected wives. They liked him being slow.
Random Word: Pink
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George didn't like to lie so he wore the mask. It was useful for his museum job, which was taking family photos with the dinosaurs or mummies. Kids always laughed at the mask. When they asked, George would joke he looked worse without it – only it wasn’t a joke.
Random Word: George
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140 Character story meme thanks to Susan at Stony River
It was a curious case, girls went monochromic.The police thought phones and Russians but behind me I saw a colour bleed and knew – Aliens!
Describing your Saturday life on Show My Face at the moment of writing in a phrase using just six words.
Rosie recovering from (expensive) emergency hysterectomy**
**We were told that she was only hours away from death unless an emergency operation so bang went the garden fund. Think Stepford wife's gardens – carpet lawns, flowers polished daily, sheds from Homes and Gardens photo-shoots and weekly garden parties for the children. Got the image? Well that’s the neighbour’s gardens. Our acres are…well…natural – wall height grass, brambles along crumbling walls, rusting clothes lines, weed infested plant covered patio and so on. It has taken us 20 years to decide what do ( and I’m useless at anything practical) but to be fair, call us old fashioned, we thought that paying for the son’s education came first. So let’s not even begin to talk about the state of the kitchen or bathroom – French peasant rustic I think it’s called. But after working two jobs, funds were counted in and a garden doer-upper commissioned who was to start next month. So yes I could be out of work in the next six months from Government cuts. And yes my wife is refusing to complete her cancer treatment. Oh, and yes, her father has just had a stroke, which leaves the care arrangements for her severely demented mother in tatters. But let's hear three cheers for Rosie being able to woof and chew her squeaky toys for a few more years. By the way,anyone up to popping in for a bit of weeding, tree surgery, planting…
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‘Adnan sits on a cloud sorta bored - you can only see so many empires rise and fall.’
‘Where’s the Bristol's? Feels like a pufa’s film.’
‘He, ahem, becomes a mortal and falls for a poodle trainer.’ ‘Poodles?’ ‘The big ones that fight lions.’ ‘Jocuronomous!’Alan got the feeling that his pitch was in flames.
Random Word: No Telling
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Every May the photograph would arrive. Always in a plain envelope but postmarked from different cities. It told him that someone remembered the day of the opening when he arrived drunk with his trousers around his ankles. He put it with the others – a thank-you that he was still ‘clean.’
Random Word: Thank-you
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The man dripping mud asked the vicar, ‘I’m after me dog.’
‘Animals have no place here.’
‘Ee fellow before ye said nowt when he buried us.’
Random Word: Misoneism
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