Julie Ainger

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2021

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“Musical Chairs” by Julie Ainger

Sound fun?Prerequisite: Quick reaction time😏The crack of the bat.The crack of the back🤓Goal: It is an elimination game🤓It’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurts.Let’s not so much call it stealing a chairs.Per Francis, let’s keep “things” in a positive perspective!Quick reaction time can or may be subjective.(Depending upon provider notes and who and whom they “like”)To some, the word eliminate. A word of profoundness that does not sound fun.Ironically. We learn this in childhood and in different, insidiously, throughout our life.We ma...

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“Never say Never. ” by Julie Ainger

Innocence and Innocent.Is?Youth wasted on the young?“I wasn’t even there.”Is no excuse.Youth may be wasted on the young.It is even worse when wasted.Period.And Innocence.Forget about it?No.In exists.Nowadays.We simply must look ever harder for it.Under here.Under there.Over here.Over there.Or else, it will harshly smack us upside the head. Along with the ringing in ears going on forever.Forever. Even.Ouch.AndMore ouch.In some cultures, innocent until proven guilty is a thing. Well used to be a thing anyway.Best to know beforehand. Who is wri...

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“Love Without Limits” by Julie Ainger

Sounds like a good thing?Yeah?Love without limits.No boundaries.To speak of.Just keep “showing up”.Well.My goal is not burst your bubble.Seriously.Life is complicated.1000 questions.A million actually.Perhaps.The million dollar one-No silly—The million dollar question.Not THAT million dollars.Have you a sickness with all things dollar-ly…..(Sometimes, making up a word is fun🤣.)I digress.O.K. now for the most important question.Relates not necessarily denominationally.But.Make no mistake.One cannot fake a belief.This is about the best news I ...

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“Caught. Looking through a peep hole?…….No. Not me, You?” by Julie Ainger

Science. Schmience.Celesital. Cellestual.Potatoe. Potato.Tomatoe. Tomato.Ugh.Hey. Creep.Will you be one of the many, or none of the few?Some of them. None of them.Who venture out to “take a peak?”At the celestial happening to occur next week.Some time.On the 8th of this month.The total eclipse of the sun.Weirdo.When? Not sure.But. Science said it is to “happen.”Accountability is no where to be “found” on your radar.But is constantly on someone’s. Radar.My radar. Is quite sensitive. How is yours?If this upcoming event is “”all that”, for you....

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“Back to the basics. Basic training on Basic Road.” by Julie Ainger

Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten.Please and thank are the magic words.Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten.If I didn’t.It is worth repeating.Repetition.The sincerest form of flattery🙂.A picture is worth a thousand words, a thousand dollars.But first:“ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN”(c)By Robert FulghumAll I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at S...

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“Soul Winner. Seed Planter. And You.” by Julie Ainger

Happy Easter to the You that is today.And.The You that you hope to be tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day.And.So on and so on.The good news.Every day.There are “win win” choices to make.Everyday.One may say that punishment isn’t supposed to feel good.Is supposed to “teach us something.”Personally. This is a confusing concept. One that takes too much draining energy out of the body. And especially the soul. Ours souls are our personalities and our thoughts all rolled into one.One.One Love.One Life.One.When and how w...

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“Rigidity and Autistia and the POV of specificity ” by Julie Ainger

Imitation.It has been opined.Is the sincerest form of flattery.Order.Order.Order.”You can’t touch this.””You can’t touch that.”Hugs hurt.Short sentences.Long sentences.Run-on sentences.The gift of one someone making sense of it all.One time.One moment.Makes all the difference in the world.In a world where differences are not supposed to “matter.”The pile on.Reciprocity nonexistent.Non existent.I can’t take it anymore.Please understand me.Or.At least try.Whilst you are so busy being,Busy.Someone out there noticed.In an instant.Life changed.No...

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“The courting days are over. Stone cold chaos shines bright.” by Julie Ainger

It is not the the guiding light.,It does not have to be the guiding light.To destruction. Self-destruction or any other types.Assignment for today: Do not overthink.Question: In your mind, your mind’s eyes, your eye’s eyes, which of the following is the most important to you?No fair looking at your neighbor’s paper.Or.Your neighbor’s anything, anyone.Throughout eras, platonic love was slowly categorized into seven different classical definitions.Well. At least that says something about the classics—before imitation and repetition rendered us...

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“SAD, SED, SID, SOD, SUD” by Julie Ainger

Too much of a good thing.Is usually, never, a good thing.”They” tell us:Everything in moderation.Just a dab will do ya.Don’t over do……Lest we make a fool of ourselves in the era ofBeing noticed come hell or high water.In the good old days, “they” were the ones we listened to. Thought we were required to listen to. Until we weren’t.For example.”They” used to say we “should” drink eight, eight ounce glasses of water a day.O.k. Math. Easy math even tells us that is 8x8=_____.That’s quite a bit of H2O“They” say, it is for our health.Those, “they...

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“Welcome! To the money pit at the rat race gallery” by Julie Ainger

We hang out, with our faces on the wall.Life can be kinda like a bad dream.Sometimes.Oftentimes,We, and our life stories come alive, at night, in the dark.The mugs of all mugs.The mug shots of all mug shots.Hanging on the wall.It was ourselves, all along.It is worth noting, or at least knowing, that nothing in life is free.We may think, “🤔Everything will be better when I__________________(fill in the blank)or when I _______________________(fill in the blank)or if I __________________________(fill in the blank)or when I acquire_______________...

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“The Ink Blot: Will the “craziest” please take the stand, or at least, A STAND?” by Julie Ainger

Okeedokee.No problemo.Will do.Real good.Bye now.🫡Before.I knew.What I know now.I found it too difficult to choose.Sides.In the grand scheme of all things active, I did not think it prudent, possible or particularly particular to be particular.I am a rather,“All in” kind a kid.Kinda person.Inclusive.Half saluting?—Not my thing.Life is seldom so-in-a-box-with-a-bow kind-of”thing”.to half-have someone’s back isHaving someone’s back half-a**ed.Now.Next lesson: The humility of human anatomy and physiology.The brain.Last I knew, we all had one-Jok...

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“The right to bear arms 💪🏻with our finger 🫵🏻on the trigger of Goodwill or Gucci” by Julie Ainger

Mi no comprehende’.Math people please take a front seat.Pi R Squared people take the next row.Those geometrically opposed, the next row.Those integer-ed, the next.And so on and so on.RV people, move to the back of the bus, I mean room, I mean bus.What exactly DO you mean?….When you mean—not mean, as the mean of the mean😳as a verb it is the action of the noun of the word people use to describe,Anger.(lk)At time, astute individuals understand, comprehende’ the actual meaning of the emotive emoticon of emojis describing the desperate attempt to...

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“Trophy Wife, Trophy Life” by Julie Ainger

You can run, but you cannot hide.The disguises we most often use to run away are the reflections of ourselves in another’s eyes.Sometimes.Othertimes.It could be just getting away with the slow death murder of another individual.To be fair.It may not be entirely intention.On our part.Entirely intentional.What keeps “it” going?The horror, the endless nights of worry.The lack of protection……..What keeps it going?From past experience or experiences, the blatant lack of accountability or accountabilities, the gross disregard, the will to make a b...

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“Merciless Judgment. Multiple Choices? Questions for Jesus. ” by Julie Ainger

Dear Jesus,What is the best way to hug a sinner?Were you scared?When they crucified you.Were you angry?When they crucified you.Were you worried?When they crucified you.Were you angry, at your Father?When they crucified you.Were you angry, at your Mother?When they crucified you?Were you angry, at your sisters?When they crucified you.Were you angry, at your brothers?When they crucified you.Were you tired?When they crucified you.Were you confused?When they crucified you.Were you sad?When they crucified you.Were you angry you carried the burdens...

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“Great Expectations: It is only betrayal if you did not see it coming. ” by Julie Ainger

Negativity.Is in the in the eyes of the beholder.Positivity.Is in the eyes of who you believe.In.Who you believe.In.The rest is just “gravy.”That way.No knives are needed😁In the stab backing world of back stabbing.😳🫵🏻?…….To bunt.To grunt.To punt.To stunt.That is the question.Life’s great questions.Before drawing the knife back and letting it fly……..🌭C’mon, basic human nature. Whispers in our ears, “Go on, do it, no one will know, no one will care.”Oh. We silly, silly humans. Well. The athletic motto, “Just do it.” Says so, Right? Tells us so...

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