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Challenge of the Month XXXVII
Give us one page of a book, story, or poem of yours. If it's a poem, it can be up to two pages. We don't care if it's already something you posted. For the big, fat $100, put up your picked page or poem. Winner will be chosen by Prose.
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Loving Jolene

Staring straight ahead, he said, “I knew all along Billy wasn’t mine. I’m not the fool

Jolene thinks I am. I know more about her than she knows about me.”

“Then the two of you have an understanding about Billy?”

“Oh, she doesn’t know that I know. I never said anything, but I knew it when she told me she was pregnant.”

Martin looked at him with surprise. “How could you know then?”

“I’m sterile, always have been,” Frank answered quietly. “But Jolene doesn’t know that. I never told her.”

“That’s a dirty trick,” Martin dared to say. Then a frown crept across his forehead. He turned to look at Frank again, this time in shock. “But, how . . .?”

“There’s no need to talk about it anymore,” Frank cut in. He turned the key in the ignition and started up the car again. “I need to get you to the station before it closes. I sure don’t want you spending the night in my house too.” He pulled the car back onto the road and drove towards the gas station.

Martin said nothing for a while. Then, “How can you take it, man?” he asked.

“I love Jolene, that’s how. I love Jolene more than anything in this world, and I know in her own way she loves me. Billy makes Jolene happy. That makes me happy.”

They pulled into the station and Frank put the car in park and left the engine running.

“I love Billy like he was my own,” Frank said, looking Martin straight in the eye. “So, there’s no need of you wondering how he’s doing. You’ve got your own family to worry about.”

“I won’t bother you or your family, Frank. I only wish you luck and the strength to go on,” Martin said with pity in his eyes. He got out of the car and closed the door.

Frank had his emotions well under control by the time he eased the Buick into the driveway of his house.

Jolene was waiting for him. She stood before him in the dim hallway, a look of uncertainty and fear on her face. “Frank, I want to explain,” she began. “I . . .”

He stepped forward and put his arms around her as best he could. She was in her eight month and beginning to blow up like a watermelon. He turned her around and led her slowly towards the staircase, his hand resting on her swollen stomach.

“Don’t worry yourself about nothing, Jolene. We’ve got a new baby coming soon.”

They mounted the stairs together.

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Where you wish you were
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rosalinM
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Somewhere In Time

Waaaaay back in time with a whole lot more sense than I had the first time around. Ain't nothing like good old hindsight to make things turn out just right.

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Ask an Atheist: Round Three
It's that time again. If you have questions for an atheist like me about anything, fill free to ask. To my fellow atheists fill free to help answer these questions too. Most importantly let's try and be respectful to each other with our questions and comments. This is a time to help understand one another. Without further udo, I'm an atheist. Ask me anything. Don't forget to tag me.
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rosalinM in Religion
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Why?

Why are atheists so bothered by what believers believe?

Why is it so important to convince believers that disbelief is valid?

@Harry_Situation

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You are walking home when you are attacked by someone wearing a hoodie. You yank off the hood and gasp when you realize who they are. "But I thought you weren't real!" You exclaim, stumbling backward.
Who is under the hoodie? Write about it and tag me!
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rosalinM
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FRFR

It was such a pleasant evening and I was enjoying the leisurely walk back to my hotel room. I was in town on business and had just finished my evening meal at the diner two blocks away. Just as I had finished walking the first block and was about to cross the street to walk the second block, someone grabbed me from behind and held me in a tight grip. Before I could scream, a hand was placed over my mouth. As we struggled, I managed to get into a position where I could see that the attacker was very tall and was wearing some type of long black cape with a hood that almost completely covered his face. Somehow I managed to get a hand free and I instantly reached up and pulled the hood back. I stared up into a face that looked centuries old, framed by jet-black hair that formed a widow’s peak at the center of his forehead. His piercing eyes were like black coals. His mouth was turning into a snarl and I could see two, long and sharp teeth protruding from the sides. I gasped loudly, stumbling backward as I said, “But I thought you weren’t real!”

“I can assure you, dear lady, I am very real,” he said darkly, as his mouth opened wider to reveal those horrible teeth.

I began to struggle even more when suddenly I remembered the cross that I always wore around my neck. I reached inside my blouse and pulled the cross out, grasping it in my shaking hand. I thrust the cross forward, holding it just inches from his colorless face. I expected him to recoil in fear and pain, but instead he stood there with a look of disbelief on that terrible face. Then he threw back his head and laughed fiendishly. “Are you for real?” he said, before he grabbed me by the hair and turned my neck towards those teeth.

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15 words entitled "yes,"
To go with all the "no,"s =) And yes, your title must be "yes,"! (No, of course you're not allowed to break the rules! That'd be cheating!)
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rosalinM
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Yes

Yes, sometimes life can be a real witch, so keep a bucket of water handy.

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Write something about wolves
Can be werewolves or normal wolves. Prose, poem, or poem but keep it PG.
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rosalinM in Fantasy
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I Am Wolf

I’m a wolf but nobody knows it

I don’t look like a wolf,

Or sound like a wolf

But I am a wolf

My sweet smile hides my sharp teeth

I speak softly to put all at ease

My claws are hidden by my gentle touch

I know all the ways to charm

And just when you feel secure

I rip your heart out

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the moment everything changed
interpret this however you want, just make sure it's fifteen words! :) please tag me so i can read your wonderful work!
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rosalinM
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Player

When he didn’t show up to get the license, she knew she had been played.

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Count your blessings
There is a tendency to see only the negative in our lives, especially when there seems to be an overwhelming amount of reasons to be so this year. Take a moment to think about the good in your life, the things for which you are grateful. You may surprise yourself...I hope you surprise yourself. Prose or poetry - nonfiction, please.
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rosalinM
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Grateful

Grateful for not caving in to disappointments,

for strength to carry on in spite of whatever.

Glad to be alive and still sane . . .

I think.

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It's Reveal Time: Tell us the strangest/oddest/freakiest job you ever had. If you are a student, the strangest/oddest/freakiest thing you ever did or saw in school.
I can only declare one winner but there will be two awards. One goes to students. Winners receives the Reveal Award Certificate. Can be prose or poetry. Tag me in the comment box like this: @Danceinsilence
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rosalinM in Poetry & Free Verse
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Something Smells Shrimpy

A friend and I worked at a shrimp factory once right after we graduated from high school. Being Black and living in Mississippi, the chances of getting a good job right out of high school was next to zero. We were desperate for spending money so we decided to give the local shrimp factory a try. You didn't have to fill out any paperwork to work at the shrimp factory. All you had to do was show up and they would give you a tin bucket that you were expected to fill with de-headed shrimp. You had to stand up on a platform where you could grab the shrimp as they passed by on a conveyor belt. You got paid by the bucket so the faster you were able to grab a handful of shrimp and snap the heads off, the quicker you filled your bucket. The more buckets you filled, the higher your tally was at the end of the day. At fifty-cents a bucket, you had to do some serious head-snapping to make some good pocket change.

Well, my friend and I only lasted a couple of days. We decided that pocket change was not worth smelling like a fish house every day and our fingers were pricked and sore from shrimp shells. Not to mention that I only made a little other a dollar each day. I would have to be a shrimp de-heading fool to make five bucks a day!

Whenever I think back on when I worked at the shrimp factory, I cannot help but laugh my head off. Thank goodness both me and my friend went on to furhter our education and had good careers. But that was indeed my strangest and funniest job ever.

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Guess Boo! Round Two!
Last year’s Guess Boo turned out to be a big success, so I figured why not do it again this year. This is a guessing game of sorts. What you have to do is think of a topic that is often associated with horror, and then write out three lines, six words each, that describes what you are so everyone can guess in the comments. The topic can be a scary movie (Jaws, The Exorcist, Aliens), a scary TV show (American Horror Story, Walking Dead, Goosebumps), a scary game (Dead Space, Ouija), or a scary book (Dracula, Frankenstein). Or the topic can be some sort of monster, masked killer, or whatever that is associated with horror. Or it can be real people that are often associated with the horror genre like writers Stephen King, Mary Shelley, and George A. Romero. I’ll start off with an example so you all can follow. Winner will goes to the one that stumps the most people, myself included.
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rosalinM in Six Word Story
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Living Jungle

Yeah, you thought you were bad

Hanging bodies all over the place

While hiding your mother_______ ugly face

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