Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“The Octagonal Octogenarian and the Truncated Triple plus One” by Julie Ainger

Complete truncation?Rectification?We will all be waiting. A very long time for that to occur.On the regular octagon, there are eleven distinct symmetries.Who likes “regular” anyway.I am old enough to remember when Rubik and his cube came on the scene and indeed did “piss” a lot of people off-with the colored sides, fine motor skill requirements and critical thinking tests too.Me. I just threw it against the wall in a frustrated attempt to align all the colored, squares.Rubik just wasn’t my thing. It was my aversion to organize and separate a...

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“Real friends don’t let friends drive drunk” by Julie Ainger

He hangs out with me.He’s a “hanger- on- er”, if you willHe hangs on my every word.And I do all of the talking☺️He and I have some awesome debates.He rides along with me in the best of times, the worst of times.Oh!! the debates about life that we have.He takes me seriously, for my own sake.He takes my perspective and sees only the moral paradigm of my perspective. (wjb)It doesn’t make me feel creepy, nervous or worried that he is always looking at me.😉For I look to my little furry friend for a shoulder to cry on, a joke to share, a feeling t...

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“Are YOU serious?” by Julie Ainger

About anything?Serious about good.Serious about bad.Serious about this.Serious about that.Let me give you a hand.To feel as if you have a hand in “it”.The cookie jar?No.Something even better.The rock bottom way of escalating the one self back to the top.In the most miserably possibly honest way.Alone.On the island of I can do this. With guidance from my “peeps”.The ones I welcome in towalk the walkEven when I challenged them more than they may have deserved.on the open seas even.in the corner.Lotsa places.Takes a lot of gumption.It can real...

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“Sense, Sensibility, Senescence” by Julie Ainger

Can we stop?Can we please stop?Can we please stop it?We, and we alone are responsible.For the madness. For the unarguable fact we are the aliens that have over taken our planet.When in God’s name did we think we could change what He already made perfect?You.I, for one, am sick of it,Sick from it.Sick of hearing it.Sick of seeing it.Sick of hearing it.Sick of touching it.Sick of tasting it.Baloney.The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.A straight line.Unafraid of your bestest, fastest curve. Your curveball.My perceptions,...

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“Roots of Joy ” by Julie Ainger

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.Are you closed in illusion? Shut down in the narrative of the same old same old?Can you, do you,Pick youself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.Or, murmur, mumble and mutter to yourself quietly “Nope, No way”.“I’m tired”.Or do you murmur, mumble and mutter just loud enough so that someone will assist you, help you to move your life in a new direction? In the honest to goodness plea to move in a different, better direction? A truthful direction. A God-given direction.Do whatever it takes to “Get i...

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“Sleeping with the enemy. Is blood thicker than water?” by Julie Ainger

Fool me once, shame on you.Fool me twice, shame on me.Once day, leaning over to read the fine print, one may find the self sensing something. Then, a head turn to the left,And.Bam.Face to face.With a person I used to know.Thought I knew.One of only two humans that I used to share a bed with.(I continue to be of the kind required to look up the word “promiscuous” in Websters, Oxford, Colin’s and Cambridge.)Why? So I would be certain to understand what it meant, it’s meanings. Explicitly and Implicitly.The face to face was awkward, weird even....

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“Conflict of Interest. ” by Julie Ainger

”Hey!” I wasn’t even in the room!Means I am innocent.Now.Get out of my way.Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.When the lies end.The truth begins.Selling a lie. (ct) Desperately hoping and attempting to cash in on another’s “stuff”. But. Only if it is the good “stuff”.The useable stuff.The appearance of propriety.Close calls. (bs)Dance all you want.Hopefully you have fit yourself into proper fitting shoes.No appearance of staggering or stumbling—Not now—with so much health at stake, so many’s health at stake.You may not be able to afford their 👞👢👡👠🥾🥿🩴...

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“The high road. The low road. The road less traveled. On tour w/the greed or green bus.” by Julie Ainger

“Tickets Please!””Tickets Please!”To conserve or not conserve that is the question.The war of words is becoming the epic battle of our times. Of the now. How about we call it “current events.”The difference between being awake and being woke.The race to the blab. The race to the “blah”. The race to the “blah, blah, blah. Well. We are there. Smack dab in the middle of the war on words, The war of worlds. Just make it look good. And by Gosh.Get. It.Done.Word on the street is law enforcement just signed a hefty contract with GM, leaving Ford in...

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“A Sharp Eye. ” by Julie Ainger

THE GOAT.Be the change you want to see.Trying to sell something that is not genuine is a daily lesson in futility.Debates swirl.Opinions abound.Competitions come.Competitions go.Breaking news comes.Breaking news goes.Gossip comes.Stirs the pot.Gossip goes.Throughout the trials of life, we bet, we hedge, we lie, we sneak and steal away the moments in life with which we care not to encounter or endure.Too difficult we run away from the truth.How to get back on track?Running in circles is never very fun. Oftentimes, like a dog, we chase our tai...

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“Cold-hearted snake.” by Julie Ainger

“Be as shrewd as snakes.”And.”As innocent as doves.”Strength can be discovered in delicate beings.🫵🏻.🕊️The “trick” is in recognizing it. Or them. Or us. Or it.It is never wise to judge a book by its COVER.Beneath all our surfaces simmers a cacophony of funny.As in, Isn’t it funny when reality hits us upside the noggin’.Again.Our prior way of thinking guided us to simply trust. Simply trust our way to oblivion. Simply ignore gut feelings when they grumbled their dis content at us. Destined to confuse hunger with common sense.And all for a pie...

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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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