Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“The Intrepid Intransigent ” by Julie Ainger

Revolving doors.Turnstiles.Doggy doors.(🙂)Slammed doors.Knocked on doors.Open doors.On this day of Thanksgiving.🦃We should all take a minute and be thankful.For the food trucks!🙏🏻Life can be a dicey world, unfair world even. Take a moment to ponder life’s great difficulties. A wonder of its own. Why is it cats are allowed to roam free, hunting for another’s food supply. Any way possible. Any way “do able.”Flirtatiously leading on another in an attempt to grab their cookies and run.☺️ Yum. Yum.Ya coulda just asked.what gets in the way?The tur...

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“Vociferously mulct” by Julie Ainger

Burning down the house =Burning a hole in someone’s pocket.Same difference.The difference is the same.Is it what you value?It is what you value?For creature comforts.Creature comforts pay top dollar?How comfortable are you.How comfortable would you like to cause another to be.And. Why? For what purpose.To be. Or. Not to be.That is the question.(Hopefully the kind folks who sit in the death panels of others have mercy on their fellow man.) Time will tell. It usually does.But.Time. A good time.It needs to be earned.Trust.Faith.Interaction.Othe...

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“Trust. Risk. Repeat.” by Julie Ainger

Tidey-up.🙂Tidy up.Admit it. Who loves to do the laundry?Sorting.It all out.Lugging it here and there.Watching the sudsy circles go round and round.Dizzyingly so.Never ending.Lugging it further.To dry out.Without the wrinkles😊 The wrinkles that prove we are sometimes hiding behind ours, our lack of desire to take action. We tousle around.Our dirty laundry🙃.The same can be said for Ginger. Ginger the Gossip Monger. Front and center with the phone on speed dial—to spread the most and auspicious stories about the next person she may know who is ...

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“Inside Voices and Selective and Receptive Hearing.” by Julie Ainger

Shout it from the mountain tops.Scream it from the other side.Modern day ear plugs are here to stay.Clogging the pathways along the way.Some voices are like nails on a chalk board.Rambling replaces indecision. Decisions are an incapable task of never ending do overs.Talking to one’s self become a daily ritual of habitual happenstance.What should I wear.What should I not wear.How do I look?How do I not look—(like haven’t slept in years…..)The memories often return when life is at its quietest. Only to amplify when life is its busiest.A quick ...

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“The Shift. The Rift. The vicissitudes and rhythm of the night.” by Julie Ainger

Hot Potato.Hot Potatoes.Necromancer to the rescue.Although he cannot be trusted.One must start somewhere.And with the cacophony of spirits available.Give it a whirl.Give is a swirl.Necromancer waits in the wings.For you.To become more refined. More sophisticated.Necromancers have not only 20/20 vision. They are able to see at 360 degree angles too.😳Just try to put one over on them.They will eat you alive with a dash of salt and saliva.Death magic as it is called, by some. Who believe in the spirits.🥃🍸🍹🥂🍷🧉. Imbibing has its challenges. The wa...

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“Lights On?... Enlightened or Frightened and walking with the Sleep Walkers.” by Julie Ainger

O.k.Stop kidding ourselves.There has been a lot of talk as of late. About lights. About lighting.As a non-bonafide-shopper, I am the person wondering why Merry Christmas decorations are aligning the shelves along with the ghouls, ghosts and goblins of All Souls Day and Halloween.I spend my nights trying to understand.Trying to fit in.Trying to fit it all in.Have you ever walked smack dab into the wall? A wall. Any wall. Of self. Of another.In the light.In the dark.While the conversation back and forth between what to do and what has been don...

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“The early bird catches the worm” by Julie Ainger

Gloriously quiet. Still.Few distractions. Few nuisances.Time to think. Reflect.On what is important. Before what is unimportant begins to clog the mind. Take up space. Too much space. The ultimate result becomes forgetfulness. Spreading oneself too thin. With not enough to go around. When important matters arise. We have very little energy leftover, complain of being too “tired.”Forgetfulness. “I forgot.” Nasty words. When intention behind them are simply to put someone “off.” Delay their lives to a point of destruction and devastation. Not ...

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“😳😳🥱🥱😴😴The narcoleptic insomniac needs some shut eye.” by Julie Ainger

“I can’t sleep.”Makes for a crazed existence at times. Irritable. Short-tempered.Between the bad dreams, nightmares and other miscellaneous processing feats of mental strength and weakness. Strengths and weaknesses.It is a wonder a sleepless night allows one to stand up🙂.Still be standing.Semi standing anyway.Because if sitting down, was an option. One may fall asleep at the wrong time.Missing something important. Very important—between the blurriness.Caffeine gets a bad wrap.What happens?It happens.A laugh.A cry.Terrorizing situations.Stick...

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“The Scoop.” by Julie Ainger

Question.Question.Question some more.InterrogateInterrogateInterrogate some more.Rumors had been swirling for awhile.Around campus.Around the large university town.Word had spread that there was a person on the loose. Students avoided their night classes. Subsequently, a curfew put in place. Night classes would be suspended for a time. Until they could discover what was going on with the situation. What to do about the situation.Law Enforcement was involved from the beginning. When the very first incident occurred. Nerves around the campus w...

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“Invidious Intruders. Insidious Impuders.” by Julie Ainger

Wow.Does it ever end.?Will is ever end?When caution is thrown out the window, with the baby and the bath water, what IS left?The Audacity of Hope?Well. Audacity is a sufficient enough word.Hope. Can be a four letter word.Please do not confuse the “stand up” podium as an opportunity to show toughness in the fight, the rat race. The Professor pondered as the lecture progressed. The times were tough. Very tough. With nary a leader to be found. The circus carried on, and it would seem as though all at the mercy of the madness.Bumptious contribut...

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“Self-determination. Self-devotion. Self-evident.” by Julie Ainger

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”William ShakespeareLove all.Trust a few.Do wrong to none.Do. Wrong. To. None.Holiness.It is a Journey.Bonafide holiness.It is a Journey.We really all are gifts to one another.(pf)Can be. If we search our hearts. Then re-establish our souls.Our reasons for being.Our reasons for living.How we take care of these gifts says everything about,Who we are.Who we follow.Who we trust to follow.Self Determination:There is a legitimate assessment of what constitutes this. On the soil of where our feet walk. Ther...

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“First things first” by Julie Ainger

You’re fired!You’re tired!You’re hired!Now.We get to work.I just hired a new kid.A new kid on the block.To walk around with me through my days and nights.A new apprentice.We do not speak a verbal, vocal same language.There are many, many non verbal unspoken similarities.We are both, however, students of life.Lifelong learners.Of all things good.And.The scary things too.My apprentice is a newcomer to this earth.Me. Not so much.Our plan.To be pupils of one another.By sheer age only, I qualify as the mentor to my new mentee. But only by age. My...

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“Riding rough shod at the roustabout’s rough house. Ouch!” by Julie Ainger

Ouch.Let the wrestle fest begin.The push.The pull.The yes.The no.When was the last time you felt as if you shot yourself in the foot.Right in the foot.Actions speak louder than words.Words can mask a multitude of hidden meanings.Hi jinks.Low jinksAntics. Antically speaking. One man’s antics may be another man’s success.Or failure.See how insidiously webbed things can be?Can become.Hurtful, too.Boorish.Blunt. Coarse. Crude.When does the line of questionable behavior blur?Dot the “i’s”, cross the “t’s”And then high tail it outta the scene, the...

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“The Latitudinarian makes a “sensu” to you, or not….” by Julie Ainger

Practitioners practice practically practical practices.It is good practice to ask yourself, “What IS my goal?”Depends on who you work for.And in favor of.Hbu?Do you work to be in God’s favor?Do you work to be in the Principal’s favor?Your Mother?Your Father?Your Brother?Your Sister?The New Deal?Have you asked yourself lately.Whose favor do you seek, do you hide from?I thought so.Oftentimes, things have a way of straightening themselves out.Maybe.Or.Maybe not.Slack, latitude and attitude help. The tools needed and necessary when the breaking ...

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“Instant Gratification: Drive for show, putt for dough” by Julie Ainger

Stop.Stop it! (lk)Stopped.Stuck, too.In front of:A facade.The facade.Of all facades.Rest assured.There was, or is something, someone holding “it” all together.Walk.Walk the narrow path. (gb)And.You will neverNEVER,Walk alone.Privately privacy.Can be a hedge.Can cause a hedge.Despair.And all the trappings, or how shall we say,The remnants.Actually sown together make a beautiful blanket, a comfortable quilt, a tightly knitted scarf.Of and for warmth.But.The plague.Is not far behind.In the forms and trappings of cute little bugs.Of “friendship”...

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