Tag: Daniel 2

Six Sentence Story: Fly Away

When Daniel got tired of writing King Nimrodwannabe’s dreams and his interpretations of them he’d let his visions fly to YouTube looking for a video that would give him enough refreshment to get back to work. Rapidly scrolling past an incredible amount of click bate garbage he found a video on how to make a paper airplane that would return to sender like a boomerang, but where was he going to get paper in Babilopolis in the 6th century BC?

He eyed the parchments upon which he was recording the dreams Nimrodwannabe lost in the land of forgetfulness wondering how well it might fold. He was sorely tempted.

However, if he didn’t continue writing, 21st century scholars with their interminable doubts that he or even Nimrodwannabe ever existed would have nothing material in their hands to doubt. He went back to work.

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Denise offers the prompt word “fold” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Six Sentence Story: Tell Me My Dream

After coming home loaded with booty from the battlefield doing a lot of damage chasing this, that and the other thing King Nimrodwannabe finally got a good night’s sleep.

When he woke in the morning he recalled that he was dreaming of trying to catch something that ran this way, then – when he almost had it – that way and then – when he almost had it again – some other way. If it weren’t that he was just waking up, all of this running around would have exhausted him, but quickly the dream drifted away into the land of forgetfulness where dreams love to vanish.

However, the vague recollection that he dreamed at all bothered him enough to gather his wizards and witches with their wands and black cats so they could retrieve the dream from the land of forgetfulness and then interpret it. He knew this task was way beyond their abilities, but he wanted to see just how much nonsense they would try to feed him this time.

It was Halloween, after all, their favorite time of the year when they expected to get a royal treat perhaps even a share of the booty, but this year Nimrodwannabe had a trick or two of his own to play.

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Denise offers the prompt word “trick” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Daniel 2:7-9 KJV – 7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it. 8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. 9 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.