Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.
Category: Photography
Six Sentence Story: Prodigal Son
Brian spent most of his life running away from blessings, but they overtook him anyway. His heart changed as he physically stopped, turned around and went home. Although the time he wasted overtaking useless stuff overwhelmed him, he was relieved that he no longer felt compelled to do any of that.
They say the narrow way is narrow and Brian was just beginning to realize how narrow, yet fulfilling, it was.
One day the devil challenged God, “Being omniscient and all, surely You still know, even though You might not want to remember, all those wicked things I got Brian to do, don’t You?”
The devil stared at God trying without success to penetrate the Light with the dense darkness of his trimmed vision hoping God would give him a philosophically precise answer this time that he could pick apart with satisfaction through eternity, but all God said was, “Nope.”
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Denise offers the prompt word “trim” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Hebrews 10:16-17 KJV – 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
June Limericks
All of these limericks were originally posted to Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick during the month of June. Some I have slightly modified.
I’ve added two photos for those who prefer a picture to a thousand words.
There’s a trail that some call the Way.
There are others that lead one astray.
Some are wide. Some are paved.
Some are sweetly depraved,
but astray I won’t wander today.
Prompt Word “trail” June 2, 2025 (modified)
Though I thought I was perfectly Frank,
I was Jerry. Then Bill. My heart sank.
Then it rose with the thought
that whatever I caught . . .
You caught what? . . . and my mind drew a blank.
Prompt word: “frank” June 9, 2025 (modified)
There’s a bowl filled with soup and a spoon
as a girl, Goldilocks, hums a tune.
Since the bears are away
she’ll have soup, but she may
have to leave and she’d better leave soon.
Prompt word: “bowl” June 16, 2025
There once was a crack in the code
and a hack from a coder who showed
if the hack fixed the crack
then the crack was the hack
and the code with the hack would explode.
Prompt word: “hack” June 23, 2025
There once were some thieves and a clock
with a sonorous tick for each tock,
but the thieves weren’t aware
that a lock was placed there
as a block of foul theft of our clock.
Prompt word: “block” June 30, 2025 (modified)
Cosmic Photo Challenge: Take a Hike
Dale offers the prompt “take a hike” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I begin the hike by crossing Regent Parkway. I go up and down many hills because this part of South Carolina is not the plains, but more like the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, or some other mountains, I don’t know which.
After following the trail (or sidewalk) I reach a park. Soon I reach my neighbor’s flower garden. Then I wander down the neighborhood street until I reach the entrance to the abandoned golf course.
There is a (very) steep incline which I normally wouldn’t take except today I’m giving a tour. Then I follow the cement trail making sure I avoid any snakes needlessly sunning themselves. Then I reach the pond with the ruined structures.
And then I’m back home.
Romans 1:16
Six Sentence Story: Blue Sky, Green Grass
Jeffrey lay on a sofa in the student lounge of the University of Noital with his mind full of sleepy sky-is-blue-grass-is-green dreams. He knew he had an assignment, due that afternoon, to write a six sentence story using the word “minute”, but, as usual, he preferred dreaming about the assignment being done rather than getting up and doing it.
Eventually he got so tired of being tired that he chased his dreams away, sat upright on the sofa, opened his laptop and typed: “The sky is blue.” He added, because he needed more than one sentence: “The grass is green.” Hoping it might encourage some stray muse to have pity on him, he wrote the last sentence next: “The End.”
Then Jeffrey closed his laptop and lay back down on the sofa as his sleepy dreams returned to remind him like a nagging conscience annoyed with having been pushed away earlier, “Don’t forget to use that word minute in your story”.
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Denise offers the prompt word “minute” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Cosmic Photo Challenge: Say Hello To Summer
Dale offers the prompt “say hello to summer” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
On my walks in the neighborhood one of my neighbors has an amazing flower garden. I often stop by to take a few photos.
Here are some of the many flowers in his garden.
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Isaiah 26:2-3
Six Sentence Story: The Doctors Of Nescience
Philip decided to start a company that would produce deceptively engaging nonsense for video channels. He hired his colleagues from the University of Noital each a renowned Doctor of Nescience to build the content. Being congenitally unemployable they were surprised to find themselves suddenly working.
The company was so successful that after many years of faithfully rigging the books, Philip’s CFO reported that profits exceeded expectations for the tenth quarter in a row. However, when the CFO demanded a bigger cut of the faked profits Philip, who failed himself to get a degree in nescience, took the company to the next level by firing the entire board of directors.
That was when Philip realized that he had acquired enough expertise twisting stuff to pitch it all and trash the books himself.
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Denise offers the prompt word “pitch” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
Cosmic Photo Challenge: North, South, East and West
Dale offers the prompt “north, south, east, west” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
Now, I can’t keep my lefts and rights straight so I hope what I label as north, south, east and west doesn’t get confused as well.
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Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 