Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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463 Stories

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“Gas Station Coffee” by Julie Ainger

Who knew.That it requires of a person a PhD to operate a gas station coffee machine.My question to the kind counter help:“Does that machine do windows too?”🫤(Windex windows.)(Not Gate’s windows.)None the less.Confusion overtakes my sensibilities.So did the awesome smell of the beans when I walked in.The problem:Where in the world do I put the cup?I embarrassingly look left and look right.Speaking soothing words under my breath.”You can do this!”Also asking,”When did I become so non “worldly”.When did brewing become so sophisticated. I really...

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“Minimalistic mind, minimalistic memory. Hints, stints and innuendo” by Julie Ainger

Better keep your distance.Lest you forget what is important.😃SmileWhileYouRunTheMile🏃‍♀️🏃SmileWhileYouBreakWithStyle💄🧢SmileWhileYouSearchForFile.💼🗄️SmileWhileYouWaitOnPile🪨🪵SmileWhileYouSwimTheNile🏊🏾‍♀️🏊🏿SmileWhileYouWaitForTile🌫️🔳Those who fight the good fight and win need to be brave only once.Those who lose must show courage twice. So we must steal ourselves for harder things than triumph.(wjb)Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh😢😖.I want my trophy NOW.Not later.”Let others cheer the winning man,There’s one I hold worthwhile;Tis’ he who does the best he c...

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“A Dime A Dozen. Selective hearing, And. Maths Anyone… Anyone👂🏻, Anyone?….👂🏻Anyone….??👂🏻” by Julie Ainger

The heart sees what the head can’t.No matter how good the hearing may be.Or is. Not.Honor stands between the past and the future. (CD)Take that chumps.Huh?Must I spoon feed it to you?It is a good thing I am kind hearted.Otherwise I hasten to say you would be,Toast.As in.Burnt bread.🌪️😡Numbing it and gumming it at your pleasure.Red is a sign of an infection, you know.🔥Or. You must know.But.Maybe you did not.Know.Couldn’t stand the heat?So.You exited the kitchen?My apologies.For your weakness.Your fragility.I never meant to take advantage of i...

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“Vicariously Virally and Virtual Vengence” by Julie Ainger

Dodged a bullet.For now.The tinder, mingles, hook up and cupid-ers are on the verge of crashing and in some cases burning (our eyes, ears, noses and mouths and most importantly our hands.)Better find your mate ASAP.Or yesterday, the day before…..Rather soon, once again, only the well endowed will be the ones going anywhere.Worst case scenario may find you reaching out to the “frenemy of all frenemies……(I think the relative term is kissing cousins😕.)Desperate times call for desperate measures.Relatively speaking, of course.If you feel the “cr...

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“Echoes of the Chaff” by Julie Ainger

The Good with the Bad.Contradictions abound.Harmonizing the various authorities of tradition takes time.Hastily destroying what is bad. (pf)Ignoring the shoots of goodness.Bundled together and then swept aside.Confusion and distraction the harvest of the bad seed.The blades are sharp and cut upwards. Left behind—a messed up mess of sparring of good and evil. The good and bad, grow together.An examination of our conscience is the only way out.(pf)To a life of freedom with the ability to share un inhibited.How?Recognize the ways.The ways in wh...

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“Barbie’s friend Skipper…….. Hey whatever happened to G.I.Joe?” by Julie Ainger

Ahhh.Yes.Disclaimer:I am female.From birth.Last I checked.The certificate.of my birth.Impossible beauty is not so impossible anymore.Have you seen the price of plastics lately?Whew and Whoa!Where are they putting it all?👯‍♀️Stuffing it all?I am not sure many Barbie wannabes know this.Sad and true fact.I am not sure many Barbie wannabes know this either,But,Barbie had a friend.She lived in the shadowsOf Barbie.Her name was Skipper.More my type☺️.A little less flashy, flatter hair, flatter other parts….etcetera.At the time when Skipper blew in...

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“Press passes under the table.” by Julie Ainger

You have arrived!At last!Hurray.Saving a seat at the lunch table.For the BFF’s in your life.One of the right of passages of life-dom.Seated with your homies stuffing down the tater tots.Life is good.Almost complete even.Oops, except there are some problems.Suddenly realizing there are too many friends “in tow”.Causes an uncomfortable indigestion of sorts and the tots begin to taste like paper.Someone must get bumped.A life being the center of attention is starting to weaken your resolve.Especially if we have become our own worst enemy.😡Anger...

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“Your Last Supper or Taco Tuesday? We don’t need no stink-in’ badges.” by Julie Ainger

Baking bread.Breaking bread.Breaking bad.Wheat.Stone.Rye.Rub some rocks together and call me in the morning.If you awake.The new faces of tourism have indeed changed.The many cooks in the kitchen is starting to look wired.The many cooks in the kitchen is admittedly conspired.A lot.The many cooks in the kitchen is starting to become bone-tired.The many cooks in the kitchen is getting from there to here hot-wired.The many cooks in the kitchen is having a pattern of getting rehired.The many cooks in the kitchen seeks to be one of the retired.Th...

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“Uncertain smile. Tempted by the fruit of another.” by Julie Ainger

*Sensitive subject*Please be kind.Sowing the seeds of love?I beg to differ.A fumble.A stumble.For the clock.Thinking, wondering, speculating, stipulating, piecing together, piecing apartThe constant and dailythreats.A foot without a sock.Thank you God.For never, never wavering.And for taking your time to take my time.For staying by my side. My achey, achey side.”How much time is there?”How much longer do I have to endure,This?Should I stay or should I go.Paralyzed with a fear of a secret.Nothing magical.Just a secret.A hold of all holds.The ...

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“Fenny and Methy come out to play—Too much crystal fun—One and Done” by Julie Ainger

Hooked.Hooked before you know what hooked you.Looking the other way when you shouldn’t.Look the other way.It is an epidemic.Ongoing investigation.And a road to nowhere is paved with intentions.Again.“What’s in the bag”?Maybe, just maybe. Once the pretense stops, the pretending ends,the masks, and the boxing gloves, can come off once and for all.All for one and one for all?Sounds amazing!But before you decide you must attend the mixer of all mixers.Check your back.Who has it.Who might have it.Who lost it.Who gave it away.Yesterday.Fenny and M...

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“See through baloney and the ultimate X-ray machine.” by Julie Ainger

”A” for effort.You wore many of us down.In different ways.With different methods.What you did not count on isStrength.If you will allow me to say, to speak, with all the respect:The problem was that you only saw strength in numbers.Quotas, end of month “stats”. A piece of the pie, pie chart, food pyramid. The numbers were used, the numbers sliced, diced spun and masked, mashed…… and smashed them all to smithereens.Sowing division.The conclusion of the story-was it to finish another? Gumming it all down, while dumming it all down, while summ...

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“When the well runs dry.” by Julie Ainger

The Rain Dance.💃🕺🏻Exercise the pipes.Sing a new song.🙀🎷🎺More isn’t always better🍺A wise person has a reminder hanging in his kitchen.💡”Save Water. Drink Beer”Or at the very least, start praying that your reach is ok.No one person generally chooses to be on the side of the road standing next to their car.🙀Comparison shopping is not all it is cracked up to be.Perhaps self examination is in order:Which is better.A rat.Or a drowned rat.A rat.Or a thirsty rat.Beer is 90% water.Right?So is lettuce.Right?Promotion exists to seduce us.Into something...

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“Reciprocity. Coming out of the wood works. With semblance or resemblance of humility?” by Julie Ainger

Reciprocity can bite.Reciprocity can be a bite.Bag it up.Bog it down.Whatever it takes to stall the inevitable.Watch your habits for they can become character. (ffr)Character building.HypotheticalHypocritical.Hypo allergenic.Hypnotizing.Fake it til you make it?Make it til you fake it?Same difference?Superficial.Just make it look good.Or bad.Come across.Pass for.Show.Show off.Likeness.Outward.Come again?The best we can hope for is a power differential that embraces similarities and respects differences. With little to no ambivalence about wha...

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““It’s not about me.” If looks could kill, they already did.” by Julie Ainger

In order to know direction, honorably good to know where we came from.Read the signs.That way, the sign of the cross does not become the self-crucifixion habitual daily ritual our Lord for us to become a better person.Read the signs.Of the cross.When the cross seems too hard to bearAlone.NorthSouthEastWest.Read the signs.(pf)Getting out of our own head, our own way.Getting out of our own way and own head.Getting caught up in those inconvenient principles.Seems impossible.To escape.It is simple.But. Not easy.To make a point.When the arrow has...

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“Placation Staycation. Flattery will get you nowhere.” by Julie Ainger

If someone close to you has betrayed you, they will want to stay away.Red flag.Someone you cannot trust doesn’t really care if something is bothering you. If their real side is revealed, it will be harder to get away.On the golf course.On the life course.Changing the course of life in the meantime.Or, During. The.Mean.Time.The best we can do at times is simplyBeware.Hold Firm.Seek out feverishly endurance and wisdom.Some worlds are just not like the others.Is it as good as it sounds?Your world.Of unicorns and rainbows of cotton candied cloud...

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