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Writer’s Workshop — I Am Officially Scared

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For his Writer’s Workshop this week, John Holton gives us six writing prompts and we are tasked with choosing one of the prompts (or as many as we want) and writing a post that addresses that (or those) prompts). I chose three prompts for this week: (1) Use the word “bite,” (2) Write a post in exactly 9 sentences, and 5) Tell us about something that scares you.

What is something that scares me?

With only 33 days left before election day, I’m scared that, by hook or by crook, but mostly by crook, Trump will be declared the winner of the Electoral College even though Kamala Harris will have received more of the popular vote, and that will mark the beginning of the end of democracy in America as Trump greenlight the fundamentals of Project 2025, the far right’s blueprint for turning America into a fascist dictatorship.

I’m scared that if Trump wins the presidency, it won’t be long before he and his sycophants will move to declare Christianity to be the official religion if the United States, promote white supremacy, and American nationalism, while rejecting our traditional allies and embracing America’s tradition enemies in pursuit of isolationist foreign policies.

Or, if Kamala Harris does manage to win both the popular vote abd the Electoral College, I’m scared that Trump will, as he did after losing the 2020 election, deny having lost the election, or claim that it was rigged or stolen from him and that his millions of MAGA minions will believe him.

And if the above scenario takes place, I’m scared that Trump will call upon his MAGA minions to take to the streets and to “take back America” even if that requires violence and bloodshed and could potentially push this nation into a second Civil War.

I’m scared that the future of America and the ultimate viability of our planet to continue to sustain life will have been compromised beyond the point that the either can be salvaged if the Republicans retake the White House and control Congress.

But I am not scared for myself, an old fart with relatively few remaining years left, I’m scared for my grandchild and the future generations that follow because of the geopolitical and environmental mess they will have inherited from us.

Those are the things that I’m scared of, and if you’re not scared of those things, too you have your head in your ass.

And if you don’t like what I’ve just said, I have two words for you: Bite me!


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FOWC with Fandango — Bite

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Welcome to December 18, 2021 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (U.S.).

Today’s word is “bite.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.

And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.

Stupid Human Tricks

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My cat sleeps in my bed.

When he gets hungry each morning, usually at around 6, he starts poking my face with his nose to get me up.

This morning when he poked me, I looked by at my bedroom clock. It wasn’t quite 5:00. So I told him that it was too early.

But he continued to poke my face with his nose. I ignored him. So he bit my hand.

I guess he never heard the old adage, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”

In a way, though, I can’t blame him. He didn’t know we turned the clocks back an hour last night. It’s another one of our stupid human tricks.

A Break With Tradition

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Okay, I’ll bite. What is going on over at WordPress today? Earlier today WordPress posted its daily one-word prompt with the word “knit.”

98EB6EC3-18F0-435C-8A49-35DB564ADE6DAnd, as I do just about every day, I dutifully wrote my response to that one word prompt.

Then around five hours later, WordPress posted its second one-word prompt of the day, “bite.”

BA10B837-7F1B-4FC6-A60F-7E693814FCC1What’s up with two one-word prompts in the same day? Did Michelle Weber, who hosts these daily one-word prompts, suffer temporary amnesia and forget, when she posted “bite,” that she’d earlier posted “knit”?

Or is WordPress breaking with tradition and posting one-word prompts twice a day? Maybe they’ll start posting them three or four times a day. Or maybe even hourly.

Perhaps their aim is to keep us all so busy responding to one-word prompts that we’ll be distracted from all the crap that’s going on in the world around us.

That works for me.