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After pandemic
induced opium harvest
slump, Dan suffers angst.
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His illegal drug
production operation
supply chain breaks down.
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Shortages, increase
in prices, reduction in
purity, hits hard.
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No more making it
rain, Dan holds his stack of cash
and ponders future.
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Marketable skills
for licit work, he has none.
COVID still full force.
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He settles for a
job transfer trafficking drugs.
High risk, high reward.
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Especially air
trafficking. Dan receives first
travel assignment.
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He is to pick up
red suitcase off carousel
4 at JFK.
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What's your favorite canned good? Mine is green beans!

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Blair, DIY-er
at heart, attempting her own
Brazilian wax.
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But she ordered too
much wax on Amazon. Full
body wax ensues.
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There is still a lot
left, so she orders a book
on candle making.
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Specifically,
how to make the wicks. At last,
Wiccan book arrives.
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But wait, this book is
about witch spells. She opens
to beauty chapter.
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Blair has always been
self-conscious about her large
forehead. Could this help?
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She’s especially
intrigued because she knows why
witches ride broomsticks.
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(Google it.) Alas,
that is not in the book. She
preps the beauty spell.
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*New format- this post only* I attended an online

*New format- this post only*

I attended an online workshop last week hosted by @hocusreadings. It's based on writing prompts from Tarot cards. This short story (full version on sowhathappenedhere.com, link in bio) is the first draft that I wrote in the workshop for 5 cards, 15 minutes of writing time for each card. It was super fun and creative! Highly recommend!
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Helen is orchestrating the hired help for Giselle’s daughter’s wedding. The Band-Aid on her hand conceals the evidence of her afternoon at the skate park. If Giselle and the other ladies of Poppy Grove knew about her underground hobby, she would be banned for life as a socialite and head organizer of events for high society. Daniel wouldn’t mind. He thinks she should be spending more time at home with the kids anyway. He doesn’t understand her desire to be productive within the community.

Helen brushes her perfectly groomed, platinum blonde hair behind her ear as she reminisces about Mark, her high school sweetheart. She has thought about him every day since they broke up. Daniel is nice and all, but she only chose him for the money, a decision she deeply regrets. What would have been with Mark?

“Oh, I see you chose copper...again...for the plate chargers.”

Helen can tell by Mary Ann’s comment that she is not pleased with the repeat color palette. Can these women ever be pleased? She was just trying to be cost-efficient and use what they already had. Plus, Helen does all the work, but these women don’t have budgets and she is at her wit’s end. She wants to be free. She wants to be skateboarding while the kids are in school. She wants Mark.

What would Kylee and Ethan look like if Mark were their father? But Daniel couldn’t survive without her, he’s too unorganized.
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Mary completes mixed
media wall while Rosie
turns to horse riding.
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Never mind lessons.
First priority, proper
attire, riding boots.
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She buys two pair of
boots, one with lace accent, the
other darker brown.
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Rosie hitches a
trailer to the back of her
trusty CRV.
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On the way to pick
up horse, she stops at Starbucks.
Pulls into a stall.
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One small problem. She
doesn't know how to back that
thing up (the trailer).
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She walks the rest of
the way to the barn and mounts
Italian stallion.
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And then a horse. A
literal pain in the butt,
she ditches horse life.
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Mary has fixed the
trailer fiasco, Rosie
drives CRV home.
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Boots mix manure with
the residue of other
abandoned hobbies.
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Despite having a
man's name herself, Billie is
man-hater at heart.
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It all goes back to
a situation in year
1998.
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With an ex-boyfriend,
involving a striped sweater
at the mall (The Gap).
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She became fiercely
independent, never to
rely on a man.
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She changes her own
oil, remodels her bathroom,
opens pickle jars.
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Changes lightbulbs. But
after changing a bulb one
day, still doesn't work.
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She re-wires all of
the electricity in
her home. Still not fixed.
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Fixture doesn't work
at all now. Surely not from
her total redo.
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Electric supply
must be to blame. Doesn't dare
call the supplier.
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She knows electric
company will send a MAN
to inspect issue.
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Richard's girlfriend, Brit,
highest maintenance of all,
demands birthday cake.
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A strawberry cake
with green icing. Perfect and
homemade it must be.
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Google searches are
full of recipes, but not
up to Brit’s standards.
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He goes underground
on the dark web to purchase
perfect formula.
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Seller sends a link.
It’s only available
for 24 hours.
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It's allegedly
the best ever strawberry
cake baking secret.
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It's worth the money.
Or so it seems at first. It's
a lot of effort.
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Richard is concerned
that it might take 24
whole hours to prepare.
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After 23
hours of shopping, blood, sweat, and
tears, he pulls it off!
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Tops it off with a
plastic happy birthday as
weblink vanishes.
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One small problem. The
wave forecast is epic this
morning. He must surf.
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With Olympic life
behind her, she needs a new
job for a paycheck.
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Her skin is wrecked from
years of training in the cold.
Solution is clear.
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A Spa Manager.
Free facials and a chance for
#1 in sales.
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She scores a job at
a new five-star luxury
boutique hotel spa!
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In addition to
spa operations, observes
hotel’s ins and outs.
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The restaurant schedule,
housekeeping, fitness center,
concierge help desk.
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And deliveries.
Kevin, the UPS man,
is quite attractive.
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Booty looks fine in
brown Dickies. And the way he
handles that dolly…
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Allie gets a hot
flash just thinking about it.
Not so fast, Allie.
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The fake redhead at
check-in has already got
her claws in Kevin.
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Mike, college student,
finds a black dot on his face.
Consults WebMD.
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Skin cancer! Mike sends
goodbye text to his parents.
Looks in the mirror.
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He squeezes the dot
and it turns out to be a
blackhead, not cancer.
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After calming down
the parents, this health scare gives
him new lease on life.
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Health kick begins! Eats
healthy, joins gym, starts taking
shit load vitamins.
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Probiotic, milk
thistle, horny goat weed, and
ginkgo biloba.
.
Even applies for
a job at gym in exchange
for free member dues.
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He's accepted! But
first, they require urine drug
test to seal the deal.
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Jane, a blogger on
the frugality lifestyle,
publishes new post.
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On how to make your
leftovers last at least ten
whole days in a row!
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Powers off laptop
and heads out for a workout.
Not at the gym though.
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She's too cheap, I mean
frugal, for a membership
or workout sneakers.
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So, she parkours in
the park across the street, sans
protection for feet.
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Her skill level is
basic, but she has drive. This
workout must be free!
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Her amateur moves
cause bystanders to cringe, but
“It's no cost!” Jane yells.
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Her grand finale
stretch brings a jungle gym and
mature Douglas Fir.
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Not the tree. There is
an old man named Douglas Fir
sitting on a bench.
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But Jane never has
to wonder how she is to
bound over Douglas.
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Because as she jumps
off jungle gym, her bare feet
are shock absorption.
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Francois got kicked out
of fashion design school for
pilfering fabric.
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He can't help himself
around herringbone pattern!
But he doesn't fret.
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He was recently
met with lush inheritance
from Grandpa Morgan.
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He no longer HAS
to work but needs something to
supplement habits.
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He has designer
taste on a healthy, yet not
abundant, budget.
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To honor his late
grandfather, of the butcher
trade, he gets same job.
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At the neighborhood
meat market. Sporting
Christian Louboutin.
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Red bottoms and a
Gucci smock. He slays outfit
(and the daily meats).
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Walking home from work
one day, he notices an
atrocious eye sore.
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A creeper wearing
black orthopedic shoes and
80s knee-high socks.
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Brad, bored with online
games, ventures into public
socialization.
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And joins a card game
meetup. He happily totes
deck of Uno cards.
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But he arrives to
a rough group of rogue members
of Gamblers Anon.
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These hardcore mother
f*ckers are high stakes and are
playing to win big.
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Unfamiliar
with Uno, they fumble. Brad
goes in for Reverse.
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He hits jackpot and
almost gets hit upside head
in ensuing brawl.
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Clearly, the Anon
group is not working, nor is
this foul card meetup.
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He finds a board game
club. Next scheduled meeting is
a Clue themed party.
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This new motley crew
turns out to be a board game
kinky role play club.
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So...what do YOU think happened here? Leave a comment!

And what is your favorite board game? Mine is Scattergories!

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Thomas, Senior Class
most senior science nerd, is
making a comeback.
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After last year's Rube
Goldberg loss to Todd, he must
defeat nemesis.
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His plan: invent a
time machine! Prevent future's
worse catastrophes!
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Version 1.0
is a knockoff of the Flux
Capacitor. Rad!
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Except Thomas runs
into problems procuring
the plutonium.
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Legally, that is.
And too many issues with
crazy terrorists.
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Version 2.0
scraps the Flux Capacitor.
A new prototype.
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It's a cool machine
but instead of time travel,
it coughs up a spud.
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Creating a fresh
potato out of thin air.
Needs a few more tweaks.
.
Instagram stories
reveal Todd is working on
a time machine too!
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The pressure is on.
Thomas must turn his tater
maker around fast!
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Amy and Dan, both
only children who never
learned how to share stuff.
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Discover maybe
they should have dated more than
three months before vows.
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But being “later
in age” and most of their peer
group already wed.
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Left them both feeling
desperate and needy. They
cling to each other.
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But that ‘no sharing’
thing escalates fast, starting
after honeymoon.
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They split restaurant
and grocery tabs. Speaking
of food, things get worse.
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Dan has been eating
Amy’s cereal. She thought
he liked to eat eggs!
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She retaliates
by buying Cap’n Crunch. It
tears up his whole mouth.
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Dan's rooftop so raw,
he surrenders and eats eggs
for breakfast again.
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Part 2
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Bernice, a seasoned
time-traveling maid, mistypes
critical number.
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On the instrument
panel of her chrome and beige
time travel vacuum.
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And ends up at the
vacuum store the year of the
illegal spice ring.
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She lands on the curb
outside of Larry’s, I mean
Nicks, vacuum storefront.
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Having an acute
sense of smell, she picks up on
the saffron spice scents.
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Nick was plugging a
load at the employee back
entrance. Went inside.
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Curious, Bernice
inspects the spice “mules.” Gathers
courage, goes inside.
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All the while, humming
“Mellow Yellow” (quite rightly)
and sniffing saffron.
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Paranoid, Nick hears
something in the back room. Gun
drawn, opens the door.
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Only to see that
Bernice has organized and
cleaned the whole back room!
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The saffron? Neatly
organized into bricks, shaped
for the vacuum mules. .
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Part 1
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Black market saffron
with Iranian spice lords.
Bougie souk status.
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He formulates plan
to make it look clean. In the
most literal sense.
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Larry, the vacuum
cleaner store owner has an
open job posting.
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Nick expertly takes
over accounting and hides
deceit perfectly.
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Larry catches sight
of the financials and thinks
he’s raking it in.
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Because Larry does
not realize the books are
cooked, he thinks he’s rich.
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And takes his wife, Jan,
on cruise to Bermuda. Yes,
the triangle place.
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Not surprisingly,
they are never seen again.
Nick takes over store.
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📸 @knabbler Rhyme inspired by recent work of: @

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Rhyme inspired by recent work of: @a_bunch.of.words
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Jamming to Katy
Perry on her AirPods at
the bus stop, Carrie.
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Never mind that she
is hairy, totally in
love with her, Barry.
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Entranced by hair, blonde
strawberry, totally in
love with her, Jerry.
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Stranger convos she's
wary, so finds the bus stop
boys ordinary.
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But they have their own
necessary agendas:
a wifey, Carrie.
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Barry abuses
apothecary career.
Makes potion, cherry.
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Love potion flavored
cherry. He shall mix it in
a cocktail, sherry.
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Jerry, head clerk at
library, has novel plan.
Vocabulary.
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He writes a poem
on stationary. His prose
extraordinary!
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Both plans to win love,
scary, (to say the least). But
the lure of Carrie…
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Potion test first on
itinerary, Barry’s
try: a canary.
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With measles spreading,
Ed is convinced of a new
conspiracy hunch:
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The government of
Iceland is out to destroy
the United States.
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Ed builds a shelter
underground, stocking up for
years with essentials.
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Jack, a local food
supplier, has shady past.
Still dabbles in shade.
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He sells off the scarce
shipments on the side, money
straight to his pocket.
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Jack gets a load of
“Pork with Juices.” This shit is
more gourmet than SPAM.
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Is it even canned
pork if the label doesn’t
declare “with juices?”
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Jack was Ed's plug for
the last conspiracy canned
food shelter stock-up.
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They strike a new deal
and arrange to meet. But Bob
wants in on that pig. .
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Strangers on the bus.
Each day, in a city of
millions of people.
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All locked in their own
schedule, city runs like
a well-oiled machine.
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How quaint though, that with
all the buzz, the same people
see the same people.
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Every freakin’ day.
Until something changes. Like,
Jill getting new job.
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She now takes route 3
to commute. She likes the side
facing seat. Less germs.
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Or so she thinks. James
also prefers sideways due
to motion sickness.
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So now here they are
most days of the week, facing
each other. No words.
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But James wants words. Jill
is cute. Curiosity
piqued. But too timid.
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Then, the day comes. He
steps up and decides to strike
up conversation.
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If she's single, he'll
ask for a coffee house date.
His courage kicks in.
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He sings “SexyBack”
as he spit shines his black shoes,
prepping for work day.
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Then, an intense and
literal pain in the ass,
brings him to his knees.
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He rushes to the
ER. Hemorrhoidectomy
of the urgent kind.
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Kara lacks common
sense but makes up for it in
determination.
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She is hell-bent on
getting a job and growing
her savings account.
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Wants to retire
early and travel distant
lands (also sleep in).
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She applies for a
nursery position. Aw,
caring for babies.
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She rigorously
brushes up on nursery
rhymes. Vocals on key.
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Except, when she shows
up, it’s a plant nursery.
She sings anyway.
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They love her voice so
much that she is hired on the
spot, despite no skills.
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Kara’s first task is
to plant bulbs. She buries light-
bulbs in the garden.
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Ed, the janitor,
notices the depleted
bulb inventory.
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Busted. Kara is
released from her position.
On way home, she sings.
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Fed up with baby
songs, she goes in another
direction. Baker.
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