Dale offers the prompt “close up” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I think I was less than a foot or so away from the object when I took the photo with my phone.
These are not recent photos but likely within the last year or two.
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Word reached Emperor Dunklematerie that Evie, a budding graduate student, had vanished many professors, including his nemesis, Professor Weissalles – who routinely humiliated him – along with some of the more obnoxious students at the University of Noital – who weren’t any friendlier – after eating Apple Poof Delight.
Why are they eating the stuff if they know what’s going to happen to them? the emperor asked his chief advisor.
“Ah, your Highness, the vanishing doesn’t happen right away and no one knows for sure if it will ever happen, since if you decide – before it’s too late – to never eat the wicked delicacy again and persist in your righteous resolve for three whole weeks, you won’t vanish because you wouldn’t be foolish enough to ever try it again, but it is so, so very – VEEEERY – tasty.”
How do you know?
With a gesture of sympathy toward the ignorance of those around him, the chief advisor explained to the emperor how it was possible for him to know what he would never, ever – no, not in a million years ever – have even considered trying. After a logically impeccable and scientifically irrefutable explanation, the chief advisor vanished.
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Denise offers the prompt word “gesture” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Dale offers the prompt “in town” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
These photos are from last year when we were in Prague and wandering around its Old Town.
The castle is on the other side of the Charles Bridge.
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If you feel like there’s an angel on one shoulder arguing with a devil on the other, that’s double mindedness.
The only reason the devil’s there is because he’s offering you something you want that you shouldn’t want. Command the devil to leave until he no longer wastes his time on you. You are then victorious.
The only reason the angel’s there is because God has not given up on you.
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Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 