Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Without a parachute. Arbitrary and Capricious.” by Julie Ainger

Do you know the difference?Can you know the difference.Is it obvious or hidden.Will the real story ever “come out”.Of theHidden.In plain “sight”.Out of sight.Actually, itMakes no difference.But. To some, they rely upon the difference.Have you ever felt as if you were falling and/or knew, you were falling, and worst of all felt insidiously thatNo one was gonna be there to “catch” you. No plan to be there to catch you was on the radar, the horizon.The buy in of all buy ins……Falling, from depths or heights of unimaginable places andNo one was t...

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“A leopard cannot change its spots.” by Julie Ainger

Hired Hands. Pot Shots. If you can hack it. I can take it. Cough gotcha down? You are who you are by the company you keep.😾🐶😺🐶 And. Sometimes the company you keep keeps blessings away from you. It says a lot about a person by the company they keep. Show me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are. By the company you keep, one can tell what life you lead. Corinthians 15:33: Beware. Be very careful of the company you keep. Do not be deceived. “ Bad company corrupts good morals.” Try hard. Try harder. Deep seated in the sto...

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“I forgot” by Julie Ainger

The immiscible combination.Like oil and water.One floats on top of the other.One sinks under the other.Both may cause a person to purse their lips in disgust upon possible ingestion.Both useful and good and ok on their own.Put ‘em together and who knows what may happen.Sometimes it may take a day to find out.Sometimes longer.Emulsification?Forcing two immisicibles to come together may result in immiseration. Cause immeasurable or immediate immaturity. Immense imminency of immediate immiserate. Imminution of immingling of intertwine. Immobili...

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“Force in Readiness” by Julie Ainger

Ready.Aim.Fire.Take your best shot.Hit me with your best shot.Fire Away.”I never saw a moor,I never saw the sea;Yet know I how the Heather looks,And what a wave must be.I never spoke with God,Nor visited in heaven;Yet certain am I of the spotAs if the chart were given.Faith requires no proofs.Ms. Emily’s wisdom beyond years.The Flies and the Honey Pot🦟🍯”A jar of honey chanced to spillIt’s contents on the windowsillIn many a vicious pool and fill.The flies, attracted by the sweet,Began so greedily to eat,They smeared their fragile wings and f...

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“Impedimenta” by Julie Ainger

Hey, Can you do me a favor?Perhaps this piece belongs, should be in the dialogue section.Leave, leavening your baggage at the door….For the rest of humanity to“Carry”.Hmmm.Hook me up please and ASAP.I think we have discovered haste makes waste.And.Lies can omit the fundamentals of a life well lived.SoooooooMay the least heaviest “one” with the least amount of baggage, please,Step forward.Step Back.Step Up.To get help.And if it requires a little bit of yelling and or screaming.So.Be.It.Because the “it” is the stuff of the baggy-est of baggage...

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““Just the facts Ma’am”” by Julie Ainger

“Results and Roses”By Edgar Guest”The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big. With flowers growing here and there, must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whatever we want of any worth, we’ve got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek its secret here reposes:You’ve got to dig from week to week to get results or roses.Dig. Probe.Pray. Repeat.Dig. Probe. Pray. Repeat.Dig. Probe. Pray. Repeat.Dig. Probe. Pray. Repeat.Union is strength with the best people. Generally imperfect...

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“Window of Vulnerability ” by Julie Ainger

Window of Vulnerability is not a Window of Opportunity.There are no short cuts.No one loves to clean up the mess.Glasses get stomped on, glasses get brokenHaste makes wasteAnd so do lies.Waste not want not.And so do lies.Just show up? Not exactly.Making false “nicey nice” is stupid.Make little difference.No matter who you are.What color you “love” or identify with.Skim or Whole.Simply saying “hello” is nothing more than saying “hello.”Spend more than a minute in the trenches with another.And then come talk to me.It is the way it should be.Al...

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“Impalpable-bly impalpable by Old/New Ambiguous or Obvious? Standards…..” by Julie Ainger

”You can’t touch this”.A worldwide legend of rap, and MC Hammer wrapped it.Out loud.With a jig and a dance and a romp and a stomp.Rapped🙂.Wrapped.☺️That’s a wrap.😃.Catchy tune.Awesome stepsCatchy phrase.Timeless. Make a point. Make a sale. Make a point.A lot of them.Points. Sales.Make a sale. Make a point…Hammer did make one …or two gagillion.When it “came out”.The people loved it. A lot.Words. The words spread like wildfire.Royalties are prob’ still flowing in.Had folks dancing in the streets.And wishing and hoping……”I toured around the wor...

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“Confabulation is not Fabulous in the Survival of the Fittest” by Julie Ainger

Drive for show. Putt for dough?How do rumors get started.Started by the jealous people.And. TheyGet mad seeing something they had and somebody else is holding.Holding what?A bouquet.A glass.A drink.A baby.A hand.An artichoke.An office.The cards?Times are apocryphal. Fascinating in parts, stupefyingly dull in others. Given wide currency. Very wide currency. A cacophony of rumors, denunciations, tall tales, sightings, clues and confessions that sweep among the streets out there. (cd)To roost. To fester. Seek at all costs to destroy in some cas...

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“Reign or Rain. Blah or Blog” by Julie Ainger

Funny thing about communication.When all else fails.We tend to talk about the weather.As if we have any control over it. We plan for it, around it or above it or below it. We are convinced we can control it. Control our lives around it. As with any and many things that happen in our lives, we have very little control.Make it rain?You reign supreme?Blah, Blah, What are you sayin’Or “Put it all out there” for the world to see.And decideTo choose.Or “play” the victim.How best do we come to term? Come to terms. With the day. With the way we beh...

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“The Perfect Fit. Soul and The Selfless Relection” by Julie Ainger

Just because.Let’s imagine, looking in the mirror.Hoping?Wishing?To see something different.Just because.Does not mean you are different. Even if you change what you look like. Cut your hair. Change your clothes. Shave your this or that. Feverishly browse the shelves of change looking for the perfect shade, the perfect color. The perfect fit. Deep down inside, if nothing changes what changes?What is the change worth?To you?To come to terms.To come to terms with the then, the now.Entangled in a constant state of confusion over the change of t...

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“The say-so-see-saw of subjugation.” by Julie Ainger

Who made you the boss?The boss of you, the boss of me?UpDownUpDownUpDownUpDownUpDownUpDownUpDownSay SoSee SawSay SoSee SawSay SoSee SawSay SoSee SawSay SoSee SawSay SoSee SawSay SoSee SawSay SoSee SawPin ‘em in any which way but loose.It’s ridiculous.And Sad.Assert yourself ?What’s the point?A lot.And you have every human and rightful right to do so.Keep in mind, folks can be tricky.Very tricky.Ok. Ok. Say so can be a statement that is not supported by any proof.100 proof, 50 proof—whatever. 20 proof. Your proof. Their proof. The gray area b...

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“Lacadaisical Labyrinth ” by Julie Ainger

Marked.For life.For a life.Of and in your life.May not be so funny “ha ha” after all.Profiling.Priming. Pruning. Grooming.Does not sound like a beautiful garden in the making. In the growing.Late to the Party? Again.Perhaps it was not that fun to begin with but loaded—-with a lot of ammo of point, shoot and click…….For later. For use….laterJust in case.There was a deal on the table, under the table over the table……..To intrude upon.Tired of being late to the party?Me too.Contemporaneous Coincidence?Who knows.Effort Really Counts?Used to.When...

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“To be understood as to understand” by Julie Ainger

Life is a battlefield sometimes.Love is a battlefield sometimes.Sometimes it hurts for no reason.Taking the fight and running with it, seems well, lonely.We come face to face with fear and dig deep into our personal arsenals to figure out how to fight, the detractors, the so called enemy, the inability to hear and understand another in the simplest way.There is no such thing as a small act of kindness.We all become so busy, rushing here, rushing there we oftentimes forget to,STOP, LOOK, LISTEN.There is nothing worse than crying out and havin...

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““Hachoo!” Surreptitious Superficiality” by Julie Ainger

Bless you.GesunheidtIs it allergies?Seasonal allergies?Pollen.Dander.A bug?A virus.Does it even matter at this point?Looks good. Good looks.Will it ever end—the bug-being-excuse. The excused excuse of all the excuses of our modern times.Haven’t we all been through enough?Apparently not.So we are continued and continually pursued in order to be put through the ringer.Bring it On.Be careful of the quiet ones. The ones tiny enough to get by.You.Slinking.Blinking.Winking.And.Stinking.Wreaking of the havoc they continue to quietly spew. Distracti...

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