99 word prompt : eminence
March 26, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that uses the word eminence. It’s a rich word full of different meanings. Explore how it sounds or how you might play with it. Go where the prompt leads!
Their Jaguar stopped, rolling down the tinted windows to sneer at me. I knew the look, people of eminence…northerners!
He frowned at my ramshackle house and asked, “Is this Azalea Avenue?”
“Yep,” I replied, stroking my beard. “Why?”
“We might buy the property across from you.”
“It’s full of rattlers. “
“Rattlers?” A teenager with a Gucci bag asked.
“If you don’t kill the 8 inch daddy long legs, they eat 3 inch roaches like this one,” I said, pulling one out of my pocket.
And another irritant flees the trees, never to know my doctorate is in entomology.
Good one!
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Thanks. 🙂
One of my books has a scene where a guy studying to become an entomologist takes out a roach to scare away a football star. I always love that sort of equal playing field. 🙂
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I should read that book. Sounds interesting.
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It’s number 3 in my series.
If you’re on Amazon Prime, and use a kindle, books 1 & 2 are free. If you would like to be a beta read and have a secure email address, I would be happy to send book 3 to you for review. (Tutanota is a free, secure system and I like it better than all the other free & encrypted systems out there).
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I will get the names of your first two books and get them on kindle.
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Ha, ha! A profession that comes in handy for protecting the neighborhood from development!
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Yep. We have too many people that cut down all the trees, build houses with small windows, and then complain it’s too hot in the summer while ruining the environment with their need for excessive A/C. 🙂
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That’s the definition of cognitive dissonance which seems more prevalent than common sense. Maybe should say someone has rare sense to figure it out!
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