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Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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Roots of Joy

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?

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.

”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.

“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.

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.

“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

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

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….??👂🏻

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

*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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