Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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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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“The Eleventh Hour Food Fight” by Julie Ainger

Anyone else tired of eating rice?I thought so.Got the meat sweats yet?I thought so.You though you could slip that one by me, didn’t ya.Well. Once. I woke up.I woke up.To the run on verbal sentences of explanations, reparationrequests and the like.Never much cared for the appearance ofRice.It kind looks like tiny bugs😳.Let’s call them “Slicey, Dicey and Spicey.Slicey, Dicey, Spicey.🐞🦟🪳Slicey—Anyway you try to cut through ‘em.Slimy any way you look at ‘em.Dicey— any way you attempt to roll ‘em, roll through ‘em.Slimey any way you look at ‘em.S...

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“Protect your Position. ” by Julie Ainger

Protect your ally.Protect your angels or angles?Even if and when nobody else does or will.Why?A funny thing about angles and angels.It is difficult to believe one.It is near impossible to keep up with the other.It is never safe to assume.Never. Safe. To Assume.That we have the slightest clue about what another person thinks.There is a very slight difference.A very fine line.Between the two—An angle and an angel, Other than the obvious mechanics of the word. One can use one with the other but one cannot use the other with the one.It doesn’t a...

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“Do as I say not as I do. The dirty work and the power of suggestion.” by Julie Ainger

Life nowadays in the land of the free and home of the brave.Admit it.Sometimes.You just want to go outside and scream your lungs out, kick a wall, flip a table on its side.About where we are. Now.Saying you’ll do something may take one kind of courage.Actually doing it requires a different type.Real bravery lies in deeds, not words.(wjb)Consequences and accountabilities to follow.Never mind?Nope.Do as I say, not as I do.The Brave Mice.By Aesop”An old cat was in the habit of catching all the mice in the barn. One day the mice met to talk abou...

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“Ala’ Carte. Prophets. Profits. Prophetic Oaths and Promises.” by Julie Ainger

Warning!To Bardolaters everywhere.Alert!Amber,IPA,Pale Ale,Prophetic.Yes.Unforced error?Hmmmmmmm…..An avoidable error in which something good or of value is eliminated when trying to get rid of something unwanted.I feel ‘ya.Retaining the superfluous because of excessive zeal.Bardolaters beware. Anything done is excess is doomed.There is no magic potion.No $400.00 whiskey or $ 40.00 either.To ease the pain or burden.No cow with spots or chocolate sprinkle dustings.There are no tarot cards.Carrot cards.No palming it.No reading palms.A horoscop...

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“Apophasis here to save the day…..” by Julie Ainger

Brow may wrinkle.Hair grow gray.Apophasis here to save the day.Pass the test.Stand the test.Of time.Father Time.Mother Time.Running out of Time.Friendships that have stood the test—Time and change.Are surely best.New-made friendships, like new wine🍷, Age will mellow and refine.(jp)One is silver.The other—Gold.Songs.Chants.Practices.Rituals.Gestures.Words.Actions.Reverence. A feeling. A feeling or attitude of deep respect. A feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration. The word is often, (not always) used in relationship w...

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“The Opacity of Hope.. Ouch! to TP parchment paper😉” by Julie Ainger

Thinking on your feet.On your feet.Ouch to the dry gulch.What is your favorite crayola box color?Mine is: Opaque.Not transparent.Not translucent.Like Goldilocks(scj) says: Just right!!When you look in the mirror. What IS staring back at you? You. Yourself and You?A “problem”?Our reflections tell us so, so much. Either can be diffuse, reflecting off of a white wall, or specular (not spectacular, no mis spell here), light reflecting off of a mirror.I choose the later. (Sounds like “ladder”.)Opacity depends on the frequency of the light being c...

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“Riding the Rollercoaster and Temporal Dips of Life with the Fantods” by Julie Ainger

It is a wild ride.Life.Kinda looks like an EKG test.The same characteristics.The same scary thrill.The ups.The downs.UpDownAmusing sometimes.Downright scary othertimes.An amusement park.Life.Up.Down.Seatbelts can be a lifesaver.Cotton candy is sticky.The giant stuffed panda bear won with blood, sweat, and tears, still must be carried around for the reminder of the day of amusement.Up.Down.Refocus.Walk on.Hang on for dear life.Might as well simply admit it. And accept it. Admit and accept that is matters to you.The bumpy ride. Of opinions, va...

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“Wild and Crazy Guys in Wild and Crazy Styles in Wild and Crazy Skies.” by Julie Ainger

North.South.East.West.Wild. Wilderness. Nature. Natural.Sorry. If finding the means to an end requires more noise.Sorry. If it requires a paper map.Sorry. It it requires a compass.Sorry. If it requires one to use their brain a little.Sorry. If Siri became lost in the wilderness……the wild of the wilderness.Has Siri now taken to the marine wilderness?... Is Siri, just, well, everywhere? When challenged, Siri will not bend of break nor bend or stretch that far. Becomes staticky noise and noisy in the brush and the trees.You must get there on yo...

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“Tongues of fire and collective consciousness” by Julie Ainger

This application is open to all, everyone.There is no exclusivity.There is free will.There are no connection problems or difficulties.Sounds almost too good to be true, wouldn’t you say?There is a “catch”.You have to work for it.This may not be copacetic for some. Thus the rumor mill begins the circle of rumors and innuendo. And the tongues start a “waggin” with stories of false and misguiding information.You are what you eat.And some folks eat others.Just ‘cuz.They are bored.They are mean.They prefer pot stirring.They have become calloused ...

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“The Real Deal. The Lesser of Two Evils. Poll Dancing or Pole Dancing.” by Julie Ainger

Spam you + Scam you=(ac) ==Squishy Ham😝Yuck.The pigs are squealing loudly.Right out loud.One by one.In a straight line.Obviously prancing to their destiny of and for humans oft daily enjoyment.Bacon.🥓Betcha ya didn’t know.Now. Perhaps you wish you didn’t.Know.Want a piece of it?The action?Enjoy.But don’t think too much about it or else you may get a belly ache. A bacon filled belly ache. I think I hear the squealing really coming from deep inside your gut. The grumbling and mumblings.Was it worth it?Instant gratification?Seriously thinking o...

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