Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Room to Grow with our weaknesses and virtues in tandem and in tact.” by Julie Ainger

Step up.Step back.Step aside.Step down.Slip up.Slip back.Slip aside.Slip down.Perhaps. Maybe. For a day. For an hour. For a minute. For a moment.Put the green eyes away. The gut punch ouch. Stop insinuating. Guessing. Surmising. Projecting.Take your whole self and put yourself in.Slip into the shoes of another person.No. I am sorry not the Cinderella story of Prince Charming and/or Al Bundy return your or lost shoe or glass slipper. Or a flip of the hair gesture of “rescue me.”Sad, but true, It is a fact that the end of the day,We really can...

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“Selling Souls, Losing Souls. Forgetting Souls? Aplomb or Abomb.” by Julie Ainger

Friends. Foes.Life can be like a heavy weight fight.Heavy.Gaining weight.Losing weight.Taking on the weightThe weight of the world.The weight of another.Friend or foe.With a right and a left and a right and a left.Bombastic.Bombastical.Boxing style.Survival of the Fittest style.Mental.Physical.Psychological.Social.Emotional.Take your pick.Pick the weakest.And have at it.Oh!! The fun. Oh!! The glory. The conscience buried beneath the soul. Way down deep. Wayyyyyy down deep.Burnt toast kinda stuff.Shifty, batty-eyed kinda stuff.Just to get one...

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“Moving on from the halls of high school. The Jocks, Socks, and Clocks.” by Julie Ainger

For some reason.This time of life is a time of life many choose to remember.Love to remember.Hate to remember.Prefer to remember.Loathe to remember.Never move on from.Refuse to forget.Why?Did you peak in high school?Won’t, can’t put away, those feelings of luck or the feelings of stuck.Most can honestly admit both feelings occurred from time to time. Most can honestly admit this while and with the fact hormones took on a life of their own during these precious and growth filled years. 🫣🤢🤔🤫🤥😍😘🧐🥳😭🫵🏻.It has been said, although there is no real ...

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“Are you a has been or a will do and what will you do to NOT be a has been?” by Julie Ainger

Friends come and friends go.Seasons come and seasons go.Some friends come into our lives for a reason.Some friends come into our life for a season.Sometimes. You engage, really engage, with a friend who is gold.The gold standard.“It is a process.” A wise person once said this to me. Face to face. Am so glad I listened. More importantly am more than grateful I heard.Loud and clear.Come hell or high water.Life on the line kind of listening..Life on the line kind of hearing.No ignorance allowed.No ignoring allowed.A personal boot camp. Just me ...

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“The Green Eyed Monster and the Slacker Hacker” by Julie Ainger

Tap. Tap. Tap.Til the fingers become bloodied.Til the carpel becomes tunnelled.”Get your tickets now.”The station announcer bellowed. Over the tiny, tiny speakers.(Or yesterday).Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!As he laughed a hearty and somewhat disturbing cackle.The two friends sat side by side. Worried brows and scrunched up shoulders. Sitting on their respective beds. Within feet of one another pretending to express words of support for one another, as they tapped away on their numerous spread apart devices—when in fact they were hoping the others device ...

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“Waking up to what the adults is this USA room are doing to our environment of self governance🫣” by Julie Ainger

How much do you care?Do you recycle?The paper.The cup.The paper cup.Where do you get the story?The scoop.The weather updates?Real.Fake.Thank the good Lord above I can still feel it all in my bones. The story. The news of the day in my somewhat decalcifying, but nonetheless strong and sturdy bones.Rickets.No.A bit hunched.Maybe.But feeling it is three quarters of the insanity battle of watching a beautiful and free country fight for its right to life.Right to life.While others tune it just waiting for the next self-imposed next psychological ...

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“Threes a Crowd. Fours a square. A square peg in a round hole.” by Julie Ainger

Rock the Boat.Sink the Ship.All sides being equal.It.Seldom works.Hurts even.When and How.Forced.CoercionForced relays and delaysA square peg in a round hole.Looking to find their place in a world that has gone mad.A world that has gone mad.Sydney Smith in “On the Conduct of the Understanding” opined:”If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes,—some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong,—and the person acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we generally find th...

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“Opening it up: Methods of a stalker. Wartime tactics and lessons of emotional combat.” by Julie Ainger

Well.How is everyone feeling now that the “conversation has changed”??I”ll hop into the fire pit first. I really have nothing else left to lose:Many and vast feelings include but are not limited to:Crazed.Confused.Venomly capable of spewed frustrations flying out of a mouth I thought held pure words.Confused. Again:Is is still a dog eat dog world?Or.A cat eat cat world?Was that the intention all along?To nurture the kind of “eat you up” mentality that is eating us all alive?Do you think “well done” or “well done”?Sorry?I sure am.A lot.I am s...

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“Bear With Me” by Julie Ainger

Heavy.A heavy heart.Becomes weighted down by the impossibilities of life.Sure.Possibilities are or can be endless.But the soul behind the mask has been telling the story for far too long.And.I am tired.Beyond weary.Resigned. To the fact I do not “play” well with others.Bear with me.Please.While I seek to figure out the why of whys.Under assault for too long with queries, stories, excuses, options, veritable reasons of lack of this or lack of that. Buddying up, buddying out disguised as “support”.The Heart of the mystery. (pf)A heart that has...

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“Yes. Virginia there is a Santa Claus? Do they really eat dogs in China? ” by Julie Ainger

Yes.In consideration of becoming a vegetarian.One should take serious note.Serious notes.And.Then.Annotate those notes.Perhaps underline the important lines.But in the end. The conclusion is the same.The conclusion is the same.YES. They do eat dogs in China.My suggestion.Imperative to vet the vet you plan on vetting your pet with.It could get ugly.Very, very ugly.Sellouts usually are.Ugly.Our dogs.Your dog.My dog.In some places, they do not even bother to season it.Makes no matter which or what Asian influence, Korean. Taiwanese, South Korea...

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“Zipit. PII and Private Eyes, Secrets and Lies” by Julie Ainger

Will the first to admit they have lost their edge, please stand up.I didn’t think so.When you know.You know.A Coward.A coward. The modus operandi of a coward: Continually operate in a way, a mindset way of hiding behind one another. Avoiding the “out in the open” mindset and mentality.They could just ask for help. For serious help.However, they choose the alternative.Which is insidiously counterproductive. Sadly, very sadly cowards seldom learn the right way. To learn.Their patterns repeat themselves as well as the lame excuses.Strength is n...

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“Sloop, Slop or Snoop. Sloop-of-war and the Friendship Sloop ” by Julie Ainger

Smooth sailing? Or so you may think.Uh-ohWe are taking on water😥Too much water as a matter of fact.…. the body cannot handle the deluge.And there is no place else to go.😵‍💫Sloshing along.Slopping along.No skipping going on here.No skipping into the sunset, waiting for the magnificent moon to save your life.Single.Solo.One mast.Single jib.It may just be too late.😬Perhaps now one wishes or wished they were a little bit nicer to those around them, at the time they could have been a little nicer to those around them.Karmatic clouds a storm in’ i...

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“The National Inquirer-Could it be—YOU?” by Julie Ainger

Getting the scoop.The dirtThe goods on someone else.How often do you find yourself seeking out the dirt with bad intentions regarding the life of another person simply because they “know a thing or two” about another person’s “thing or two”? Their life, their family, their hopes, their dreams.When you look in the mirror the only real way to not like what you see is to close your eyes.Close your eyes.Ironic. Sad maybe. The funny thing about selfies. We allow ourselves “do-overs” all the time-when we don’t like the picture we take of ourselves...

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“Loose lips sink ships. The wrath of grapes🍇 ” by Julie Ainger

White.Red.SweetSour.Water.Wine.Wine.Water.How do rumors get started?Started by the jealous peopleAnd.They get mad seeing something they had and somebody else is hold in’.A long stem of this 🍷or a long stem of that?🌹🥀A hard fact: Some people never grow up. Never mature, like a fine wine. Like beautiful flowers.😃Stunted.Prevented. From. Growing.The wrath of grapes.Not to be confused with a classic “The grapes of wrath” a classical story written by John Steinbeck. Considered a “realist” novel the story centers around a poor family of tenant far...

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“Leisure Time Seizure Time Cognition and Comprehension ” by Julie Ainger

The mass.The body’s mass.The masses mass.“Do mass media have the effect of drugging their audiences?” The question was asked long ago. Modern times and current state of affairs either contribute or deter from the bigger picture. It could or could it be we simply are feeling the effects more and more today. The minute effects. The louder ones too.Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton at one time opined that mass media reinforces what we already believe, enforces normal attitudes and behavior patterns of society.. Publicity closes the gap between ...

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