Six Sentence Story: Books

While browsing through a book store Joe realized that no one in his right mind buys a real book made out of ink on paper anymore since computers have stored everything and they can even regurgitate anything of value in that book in a few seconds. He left the store empty handed.

His next stop was a new restaurant in a new mall where he planned to meet a friend realizing that no computer (no matter how steam-powered quantum it was) could regurgitate for him the food he was about to eat. Unfortunately, his friend called saying he would be an hour late which left Joe to wander the strange mall till his friend arrived.

Just behind the restaurant Joe found a huge book store which also sold t-shirts, toys and coffee mugs (just in case you realized that no one in his right mind buys books anymore). As he glanced through the shelves there it was, a book, a real book with ink on paper which seemed to say Buy Me! Buy Me! Buy Me!, and so, rejoicing like one watching the dawning of a new morning, Joe bought it.

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Denise offers the prompt word “steam” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Trail: Little Sugar Creek Greenway

This walk was on the southern end of the Little Sugar Creek Greenway that goes through Charlotte, North Carolina.

It is a very easy walk. On a scale of 1 to 10, from easy to hard, this trail would score 0. The trail is wide and paved and great for a bicycle.

Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.

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Wide, two-lane trail for bicycles with Little Sugar Creek to the left.
A wetland area attached to the Little Sugar Creek.
Fluffy seeds along the trail

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Symmetry

Dale offers the prompt “symmetry” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

One of the places where I watched sunsets in southern Florida has a shiny wall blocking a residence from the park.

If I stood near the wall I could see the setting sun. This allowed me to put two sunsets in the photo.

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Two sunsets!
Two skylines!
One reflected sunset.

The Old Golf Course Trail

This trail is in Fort Mill, South Carolina, just off Regent Parkway. It goes around an abandoned golf course and a man-made pond surrounded by residences for about a mile.

Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time #9.

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The trail is mostly paved and somewhat steep in places.
The man-made pond part of the trail surrounds.
A view of part of the old golf course which is still mown.

Six Sentence Story: Touched

Taking things for granted was no puzzle for Tim. He had been doing it all his life.

One day he got touched.

His friends told him that he’d get over it. As years passed Tim realized he’d never get over it. As even more years passed he was glad he never did.

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Denise offers the prompt word “puzzle” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Under The Canopy

Dale offers the prompt “under the canopy” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I wonder if palm trees form a canopy. They do block the sun.

Or awnings?

Or clouds?

The red part is a covering (canopy), but above it is a beautiful, cloudy sky.
A big bird minding his own business under a bush canopy.
It’s amazing what you can see under a canopy of trees.