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Simply 6-Minutes 5/16/23 Dad’s Revenge

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

We are challenged to write a story about the photo below in only 6 minutes.

James Hale AKA “Tank” had been a biker since he could remember. He had the tats, the beard, and the rebel attitude that accompanied his lifestyle too. He never had any ‘brushes’ with the law but had seen lots of gnarly stuff go down. It was a life for “losers”.
Now that he had finally settled down and had kids, his biker club days were reduced to weekend rides, and he forbade any of his “brothers” to come to his house. He’d gotten through the rough life but understood how toxic it could be for his impressionable children. He wanted so much more for them.
His son, to his dismay, started sneaking around and showing an interest in a ‘gang mentality’, so Tank decided that he’d have to do something outrageous to damage the son’s ‘street cred’ to get him off that path.
Tank went so far as to show up to his fifteen-year old’s secret clubhouse dressed as a fairy. The “gang” laughed their butts off, but Tank’s son couldn’t live the embarrassment down and was ‘kicked to the curb’ by the punks.
Tank further warned his furious son that if his grades didn’t rise, he’d show up at school in the outfit and walk him home every day.



https://christinebialczak.com/2023/05/16/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-05-16-2023/

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Simply 6 Minutes 4/18/23-Apocolyptic Pause

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

Today’s prompt is:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/371124825527619296/

The “containment” had become nearly complete. Only pockets of revolutionaries and elites remained free to roam.
Green energy proponents had gotten their way. Without reliable energy, people had become prisoners of the diabolically imposed reduction of human wealth and mobility.
The Police State slipped in easily… virtually unresisted. Covid-19 had proven how easily fear could control the masses and fear was easily and ubiquitously propagated by every media platform through AI. Disarming the public had, as expected, sealed the deal.
The gates were now locked, and the concentration of human foot traffic caused the environment within to turn muddy brown.
Yet, Nature could not be intimidated nor propagandized. Although the trajectory of human prosperity had been interrupted, there were signs of life carrying on that offered hope to those plotting a restorative escape.
Life, and human determination, always finds a way.

https://christinebialczak.com/2023/04/18/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-04-18-2023/

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Simply 6-Minutes 3/14/23 The Three SUVs: If only this were a fairytale.

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

Our challenge is to write a story in only six minutes using the image below.
Any and all resemblances to ‘real life’ in my tale, are not coincidental. 😉

“…And the Daddy SUV said, “Who has been eating up my fuel?!
Then the Mommy SUV said, “Somebody’s been eating up MY fuel too!”
Then the little SUV said, “Somebody’s been eating up my fuel and THERE they are!”

It was a large delegation of the proponents of the Green New Deal who had flown into town on private jets from their beachfront homes and were handing out flyers about the desperate crisis of “Climate Change”.
By the time they left, all the people were alarmed and at each other’s throats about what to do about “the immanent end of the World”.
As the delegation boarded their private jets to return to their comfortable lives a voice was overheard in the group saying, “Look at those despondent SUVs. Maybe we should tell them our intentions aren’t meant to harm them because those “poor bastards” can’t vote. Anyone for seafood? We’re flying in lobster today.”

https://christinebialczak.com/2023/03/14/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-03-14-2023/

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Simply 6 Minutes- Uncontrollable Meltdown

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre
An optical illusion made of 400 tiles. 
Courtesy of Duncan Cook/Casa Ceramica

Uncontrollable Meltdown

Order was essential.

Silvia hated change and was meticulous about maintaining order. The lockdowns had thrown her for a loop!
No schedules… no consistency… and constant unease had affected her both mentally and physically. Nothing appeared ‘normal’. She felt her heart taking extra beats and started dropping everything she touched. Silvia was falling apart.

Now, the political disagreements in Congress had become too much for her to take!

“To Hell with changes! Leave it alone!” she wailed at the TV. Every part of her needed mundane, mindless, ‘normalcy’ to return.

She finally fell asleep in the fetal position waking just in time to make it to her therapist appointment. That was her only constant these days. As she settled into her usual chair in the safety of ‘her’ waiting room the receptionist announced that her doctor had taken a sudden leave of absence.

As she ran from the room wailing, the hallway floor began to move on its own and she collapsed.

Silvia was immediately rolled to the 9th floor Psych ward.
Lying in the bed next to her, she recognized her therapist.

https://christinebialczak.com/2023/01/03/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-01-03-2023/



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Simply 6 Minutes Challenge- 3/9/21

Posted on by Susan St.Pierre

We use a photo and write a story in 6 minutes.
Today’s prompt is:

David had the worst day.
His 8 page report wasn’t in the folder and was declared lost.
His water pump gave out on his SUV requiring a tow.
And?
He’d forgotten his mother-in-law’s birthday!
Sandy wasn’t happy when he came home late, without picking up the take-out, keeping her mother sitting in the dining room for 2 hours!
David had many great excuses but the one that didn’t ‘cut it’ was not making a ‘heads-up’ call to warn her.
Later that night, Sandy, still furious about his lack of communication, handed him his pillow and pointed to the couch.
When he returned from brushing his teeth, there was Bruno on the couch also annoyed.
It was HIS spot.
David just couldn’t win today…
He spent the night on the floor.

(130 words)

Simply 6 Minutes—Welcome To The Challenge: 03/09/2021 – Stine Writing (christinebialczak.com)