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BOXING ~  23RD DECEMBER2015

24/12/2015

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 A Prompt Response for Inspiration Monday:~  'Boxing'
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BOXING
by John Yeo

  Jim always walked to the town through the farmer’s fields He loved to watch the seasons change and drift along. The county of Kent is popularly known as the garden of England. The sky was blue, the sun was shining, it was a glorious Spring day. Jim always took his faithful dog Rover along with him for company.
   This was to be an unforgettable day for both of them, Rover was busy chasing rabbits and sniffing around the dried-up cow pats exploring the interesting smells. When suddenly the dog rushed forward, barking furiously at a very large, unusual creature that seemed to have appeared from nowhere. Jim couldn’t believe what he was seeing, he rubbed his eyes in total disbelief, in front of him was a very large Australian Kangaroo, that bounded directly towards Rover, his ears pulled back and his large long tail dragging along behind him. Rover changed his bark from an aggressive loud noise to a frightened whimper as he turned tail and fled. Jim stood his ground and looked the unusual creature straight in the eyes.
    ”Hallo! where have you suddenly appeared from? You are a very long way from home.”
  The Kangaroo suddenly reared up on his hind legs and assumed an aggressive boxing stance. Jim instantly turned and fled in alarm with the large creature leaping and bounding along behind him. Jim was stopped in his tracks by a six foot high hedge, one look behind at the aggressive Kangaroo and Jim leapt over the fence into a field of cattle, Rover wriggled through a gap in the fence and followed.
   A huge Bull bellowed at this intrusion into his private space, and started charging across the field towards Jim with his head down, just as the Kangaroo came flying over the hedge. The two creatures took one look at each other and fled in opposite directions.
   Jim climbed a tree and watched, as three tractors appeared and drove the Kangaroo towards a large lorry marked in bright letters Circus. The drivers were laughing and enjoying the spectacle immensely. Someone had telephoned the local papers and a large crowd had gathered and witnessed Jim’s amazing leap to freedom. Jim soon became something of a local celebrity, and was wined and dined as his leap to freedom, became the leap to a beginning of many after-dinner speaking engagements.

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VIEWPOINT ~ 15TH DECEMBER 2015

17/12/2015

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Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers ~ Writing challenge.

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The goal is to write a story between 100-150 words (give or take 25 words) based on the provided photo.
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VIEWPOINT 
by John Yeo

  Officer Tom was puzzled at the disappearance of the owner of the cycle.
    "Look!" said Mary Jones, "It must belong to some one. It's been leaning up against that lamp-post for days! I think someone got off, climbed the wooden stairs, then just disappeared."
      "Hmm!" Police Constable Jones proceeded to write something in his notebook, then he asked, "Where do the stairs lead?"
    "Up to the roof,!" replied Mary. "Why would anyone want to climb up to my roof?"
     "Ah! I had better take a look on that roof."
    Soon an ambulance and a police car arrived. Two paramedics carried a figure on a stretcher down the stairs to the ambulance and he was taken to hospital followed by the police car.
  Officer Tom then congratulated Mary.
    "Madame, you have just saved the life of a peeping Tom. He had a serious fall on the rooftops a few days ago and was unable to move following a broken leg. He had some very expensive telescopes, and an amazing assortment of women's underwear up there.
  
(175 WORDS)

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ACCIDENTAL GIFT ~ 14th DECEMBER 2015

15/12/2015

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     A Prompt Response for Inspiration Monday:~  Accidental Gift.
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ACCIDENTAL GIFT 
by John Yeo

     Sally-Anne was always adamant that she would get her way, and she used every trick in her extensive repertoire of ploys, to engineer the result she wanted. Living the life of a picture-book that portrayed exactly the front she wanted the world to see, the world became her plaything.
    One sad day she was confined to the house with a severe lurgy,  this dreaded lurgy kept her housebound and inactive for several months.
Her doctor was at his wits end, trying to find the right combination of medication to counteract the infernal symptoms, but sadly, sharp-tongued Sally-Anne, didn't respond to anything he prescribed.
      "Mrs. Wood,"  he began, one memorable day, "I would like to try something really new; a revolutionary new treatment for this unusual variety of the dreaded lurgy, that we are battling against here."
      "Yes please Doctor, anything to get my health and strength back again, my family are having to cope with my persistent problems."
    Several days later she found herself on an operating-table, undergoing surgery performed by the world famous brain surgeon James Steele
    The atmosphere could have been sliced with the proverbial butter knife! The manipulative madam had many underlying issues to contend with. Since heaven knows when, the problems with her ever-moving, ever
 mindful, reviewing and mistaken interpretation of many mundane issues had sadly overtaken the reality of her existence. Sally-Anne was a bright young woman who under normal circumstances would have gone a long way in life. 
     The surgery was an incredible success and Sally-Anne became a well-respected, well-liked member of her community.
     Then one fateful day, her son started violin lessons at school and brought his instrument home to practice. Sally Anne was delighted and so proud of him. 
     A few hours later, Sally-Anne idly picked the violin up and to her amazement, it felt familiar, as if it was an old friend. She began  playing the most beautiful music, drawing her neighbours and people from the street to stop and listen.
     Word quickly spread around, and Sally-Anne eventually became a famous well loved violinist, respected the whole world over.
 The scientific community were incredulous and after much discussion it was decided that this was a wonderful accidental gift, an accidental side effect of her recent brain surgery. 


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DEPARTMENT OF SILENCE ~ 9TH DECEMBER 2015

11/12/2015

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A prompt response for Inspiration Monday ~ Department of Silence
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DEPARTMENT OF SILENCE 
by John Yeo 

  Jim and Bill worked in the post room of St Mary's a huge General Hospital. This was a busy challenging place to work, before the advent of computers. Ken on the post van would throw six sacks of mail on the loading bay, three times a day.
      "There you are boys!  Another load to stop you two dropping off." 
Laughing his head off as he drove away fast.
         "Thanks for nothing!" Jim shouted back with a grin. 
Then there was the internal mail coming in thick and fast, at all times of the day. Sometimes there would be a huge pile of unsorted mail, sitting on the bench, and both men would quickly get to work, clearing the backlog in no time.
Bill was the detective of the two, there wasn't a scrawling, squiggly example of a young busy Doctors handwriting, that could defeat him. Bill always found a home for the most obscurely addressed letter. 

 One day there was an unusual package addressed to the head of the  "Department of Silence." Jim picked it up first and said to Bill.  
       "This is certainly one for you to work out! There's no such department here that I know of!"
      "Ah! Hmm!" murmured Bill, "I can think of several places this could be destined for. Either the Sleep Clinic, the Acoustics lab, The Audiology and Hearing loss department, the Chapel, or in my opinion, this is meant to send us to the silence of the hospital Mortuary."
     "Wow!"  Jim exclaimed. "I had better call security to get the bomb squad in. Let's get out of here!"
 Soon the hospital was drowned in the combined sirens of the emergency services. 
 After a total evacuation of the building, an army officer removed the package and ordered a controlled explosion in the hospital grounds.
   The officer in charge congratulated Bill and Jim on a quick thinking response. "Well done! How did you guess that was a suspicious package?"

    "It was the address that gave it away," said Bill quietly. "Silence is not only golden, it is virtually impossible to achieve in a busy hospital. 
I thought at first they meant department of Science, but that's all over the place in here."

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AFTERNOON TEA ~ 9th DECEMBER 2015

11/12/2015

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Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers ~ Writing challenge.

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The goal is to write a story between 100-150 words (give or take 25 words) based on the provided photo.
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AFTERNOON TEA 
by John Yeo 

  The ladies of the local WI were taking afternoon tea in a very busy tourist area of the city. The sun shone beautifully as many people strolled by enjoying the pleasures of a peaceful afternoon.
  That was before the siren of an approaching ambulance in the distance, broke the spell. The ambulance was unable to get through, as the pathway was too narrow. A crowd quickly gathered around a young woman who was lying on the ground obviously in the later stages of her pregnancy.  
    Doris quickly left her WI friends at the table and leapt into action. "Get hot water and towels from the restaurant! Quickly" she shouted. Soon the hearty cries of a new-born child could be heard as Doris calmly exclaimed.    
      "It's a girl!"
 Later when the paramedics finally arrived, Doris explained she had been a midwife for thirty years during her working life.
  "I'm going to name my baby Doris, after you." said the grateful young Mum. 
 "No don't do that, she wont thank you for that."  Laughed  Doris.

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(174 WORDS)
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MAN-TRAPS  ~2nd DECEMBER 2015

4/12/2015

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Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers ~ Writing challenge.

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The goal is to write a story between 100-150 words (give or take 25 words) based on the provided photo.
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MAN-TRAPS 
by John Yeo

    The ship landed on an Earth-like planet, a huge single green sea, bounded on all sides by a mountainous land. The vegetation was stunning, multi-coloured trees, covered in succulent fruit that looked edible and appetising.

 " Looks like we have found what we are looking for!" Said the Captain, to his second officer, who was operating the outer periscope to survey the terrain.

       "Yes Sir, there doesn't seem to be any visible inhabitants, just those strange purple mushroom-shaped plants on the fringes of that forest."
 Johnson, the second officer, had travelled with the Captain on many missions before.
  
     "Good!"  Exclaimed the Captain, "We'll  send an exploratory team and a rover to explore.
   As the team got out from the rover, and began walking forwards there was a whoosh as a tentacle whipped out from one of the plants and picked up an explorer and calmly swallowed him. The other members of the team tried to escape but they were surrounded by alien plants.

Cousins of the Earth's, Venus fly-trap.  Alien man-traps.

(175 WORDS)

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Netherdoor  ~December 1st, 2015

3/12/2015

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NETHERDOOR
by John Yeo

 Billy coughed and spluttered as he shouted with glee. "It's true, unbelievably true. Google doesn't know!"

     "Google doesn't know!"  Betty laughed, "Impossible, Google knows everything, I rely on Google a lot!" 

  "Google has no response to Netherdoor. I wanted to find out about Netherdoor before we make the trip. Where we are going, the brochure clearly says to go through Netherdoor, and take the magical mystery tour of Netherworld." Billy was absolutely flummoxed and amazed at this fact. 
 
   "Oh! Come on Billy! Google knows everything: Are you sure you typed the words in correctly?"  Betty was astonished. "What did they come up with?" She trusted in Google implicitly.

     Billy smiled as he said.. "All sorts of irrelevant, nonsensical advertising, for books and games, based on the medieval meaning of the Netherworld, as the underworld or hell. No guidebooks for the real magical Netherworld behind the Netherdoor. Google hasn't got a clue about the world on the other side of the real Netherdoor."
 
  Betty asked Billy for the brochure, to check the spelling as she still firmly believed in the limitless power of the knowledge available through Google.

    "The brochure?" Billy giggled, amused at her reaction to the fallibility of the powerful search engine. "I thought you had the brochure, don't tell me the brochure has vanished!"
 
   Betty looked bemused as she started to hunt everywhere for the missing brochure. "It is  here somewhere Billy. I know for certain I saw it. Are you sure you haven't got it? How can we go if we don't know where the Netherdoor to the Netherworld is located. Shall I ask Google where it is again?"  Betty grabbed her iPad and keyed in Netherdoor again. 

Suddenly a metallic voice asked  "How can I help you?" Betty was startled, she had forgotten Google had learned to talk. Quickly she recovered and explained the situation. "I'm sorry I didn't get that!" 

Betty was shocked. Google is fallible! "What are we going to do Billy? We are on our own, we will have to find the brochure."

Billy nodded and agreed, as he asked, "Where is the brochure?"
 
Betty suddenly caught on and replied, "I have an idea lets ask Google the way to Disneyland instead. I am sure they know where that is."

"OK!" said Billy, with a twinkle in his eye. "Ask Google?"

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