#sixsentencestories – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

The Age of Mistaken Mythology: Forwards or Backwards

During the Age of Mistaken Mythology, folk like Gabriel believed he could go backwards in time. If he could go forwards, then why not backwards (getting a loan from time he had no intention of repaying)? Of course, being the skeptic of the bunch, he wasn’t sure if he was here anyway, but I will save that nonsense for another episode.

Edgar, the brain of the bunch, told Gabriel to prove it. Brian, not the brain of the bunch, said, “Yeah, prove it!”

When the pizza delivery guy rang the bell, they all had better things to do.

Denise offers “loan” as the prompt for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

James 4:13-15 NKJV – 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”

Backward or Forward in Reverse?

Forwards or Backwards Along a Trail at Hanging Rock State Park, North Carolina

The Age of Mistaken Mythology: Infinity!

During the Age of Mistaken Mythology, Edgar wondered whether adding one to infinity made it bigger (and my grammar checker wondered if I’d ever stop writing this hollow nonsense).

Brian said that it would be bigger by one.

Gabriel said that nothing is bigger than infinity, so no.

(I had an opinion on this, but decided to keep it to myself.)

Brian asked, “How could anyone get an infinite amount of anything anyway?”

Gabriel said, “Just pretend you’ve already got it” (which is what Edgar already did).

Denise offers “hollow” as the prompt for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Psalm 103:1 KJV – 1 A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

The Age of Mistaken Mythology: More?

In the Age of Mistaken Mythology, after becoming a gazillionaire, Edgar wanted more. Then he wanted more than more.

While Brian munched on more potato chips, Gabriel asked, “Haven’t you got enough?”

But Edgar wanted more, because more was more than what he had before. An urge to splurge began to surge. He rhymed and rhymed some more.

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

More domino tricks

1 Timothy 6:10 KJV – 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

The Age of Mistaken Mythology: Flat?

During the Age of Mistaken Mythology, while Gabriel, Brian, and Edgar were eating, Brian asked Edgar, “What if the Earth were flat like this pizza…”

Gravity would pull the edges towards the center. Not knowing what to do with all the stuff gravity forced it to hold, the center would puff out. In no time, you’d have a big, beautiful ball.

Brian said, “I was going to ask, ‘How would it taste?'”

With his mouth full, Gabriel said, “Delicious!”

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

Here’s how to flatten dominoes.

                                   Isaiah 40:22 NKJV 
                       It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, 
                       And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, 
                       Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, 
                       And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Six Sentence Story: Finally Getting Things Right

One day while minding my own business Ryan told me that with AI super intelligence humanity had finally grown up, but the hoi polloi, myself included, were still living like ignorant nincompoops. I told him he had his AI head screwed on backwards.

Over the years, however, something happened to Ryan. One day he told me like a kid bubbling over that the hoi polloi, myself excluded this time, had it right all along!

Then all I heard him say was Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! as he lifted his eyes. I knew he was still having trouble getting his head screwed on straight, but this time I almost wished someone would snap my head on the way Someone must have done his.

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

With thanks to Greg Doles for linking to this song on his blog, Chasing Light.

The Happy Tooth Fairy

Once upon a time in the really good old days the tooth fairy fooled tiny tots into thinking she was the one who left the pennies, and as inflation increased, the nickels, the dimes, the quarters and then even a dollar(!) under their pillows in exchange for their fallen out teeth. This was an easy job since the children’s own parents came up with the coins, made the argument and then let her take all the credit.

However, the day came – as inevitably it would – when children stopped believing (and/or parents stopped telling) tales that a tooth fairy might really want their teeth so she began to do odd jobs on the side. There were many opportunities, but she had to pretend to be someone (or something) other than who (or what) she really was which annoyed her.

But work is work and you have to do what you have to do which now included gigs where she played the last universal common ancestor, the big bang, deep dark matter, the mysterious multiverse or God knows what nonsense next. She had no clue what any of this stuff was, but as long as the children knew, since children normally knew quite well what they were told to know, she was as happy as any tooth fairy could be, so happy, in fact, that she decided she might as well – whether she deserved it or not and most likely she didn’t – live happily ever after.

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

The White Knight, the Dear Damsel and the Dastardly Dragon

Once upon a time there was a dear damsel in distress. She blamed the dastardly dragon for all her woes. A white knight in shining armor rescued her.

Over time the damsel’s fiery words torched the knight’s castle destroying this and then that as she blamed the knight for all her woes.

The dragon, with a nod from the knight, rescued the dear damsel from the dastardly knight.

The knight lived happily ever after.

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Denise offers “nod” as the prompt for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Six Sentence Story: All X’s No O’s

Jeff asked the gent who greeted him, Is this heaven or the other place? The gent searched for Jeff in the quantum computer and up popped a document giving full details of Jeff’s judgment.

So which is it?

Jeff was prepared to argue that he had been as good as the next guy ever could have been to foil any attempt to send him to that other place. After reading the details of the judgment the gent turned to Jeff with a welcoming smile.

It says right here that you have been assigned a room in a decent-enough-for-you mansion to be shared with all your exes and their exes and their exes’ exes and those exes’ exes’ exes and so on, so you tell me where you are.

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

Six Sentence Story: Blessed Are the Pure in Heart

During the homily Father Thomas said that if you want to see God make sure you have a pure heart. William, a freshman in high school, didn’t like it when Aunt Cecelia poked him from the pew behind them when it looked like he wasn’t paying attention, which he often wasn’t, as she did just then.

After Mass as Father Thomas stood at the entrance of the church ready to shake hands and chat with anyone who was not trying to rush out unnoticed William stopped to ask, Father Thomas, can we see God if we look at someone whose heart is pure? Father Thomas thought and then answered, Those pure in heart may be the main way that God lets those with impure hearts get a peek at what they’re missing.

Outside William’s parents – surprised by their son’s sudden interest in such matters – and Aunt Cecelia – who realized her nephew was getting a little too old to poke – felt it best not to say anything further.

Years later recalling Father Thomas after admitting decades of mistakes, William got the peek at what he was missing that he had been promised when he finally opened his eyes.

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

I am grateful to Greg Doles for posting this song along with many other songs by The Porter’s Gate on his blog, Chasing Light.

Six Sentence Story: Jeremy’s Demon Infestation Problem

When Jeremy entered his home the demons scrambled. They looked like those fat cockroaches that ran about when he turned on the light. He stepped on some squishing them nicely, but the more he squished the more they kept coming.

He’d admit that when they first arrived they looked cute and he enjoyed playing with them, but he never thought they would overrun the place like a huge forest fire starting from a careless camp site.

What was poor Jeremy to do?

After fits of indecision because those critters still looked so cute, he finally realized that if he didn’t clean house from top to bottom inside and out they would completely take over.