Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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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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“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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