Stony River’s Microfiction Monday #7
February 7th, 2010
Susan at Stony River hosts a fun little writing exercise each Monday that encourages a 140 (or less) character story triggered by a picture. Be sure to drop by and check out the many thoughts on a single image. Join in and have some fun with the crowd that follows her around that weekly image 
Hope to see you there!
And the triggering town this week?
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Great invention?! Arghh!
Now that lickspittle can break up without facing me –
and with that tone “this’ll hurt me more than it’ll hurt you”
That was tough. Hard for me to find a direction for that picture – my brain turned to mush this week. So here I come to check out everyone else’s great entries.
Cheers!
Categories: Creative Writing, Culture, Fun, Microfiction Monday, Poetry
Your entry was great. Love that they are all so different but yet we all see the same picture. I also was mushy in the brain over the picture this week.
Some of them just roll off my mind like water but this one hung around way to long!
@Peggy Thanks! It is fun to see the differences after viewing the same picture!
LOL too funny. And to think nowdays you can get a phone and see the other party on the end. My how technology has advanced. Great take on the photo my friend. Have a wonderful week ahead 🙂
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@Thom *grin* or worse, and just send a text with no picture, no voice, no nuthin! Thanks Thom.
Oh the pain of being dumped so unceremoniously but texting is so much crueller!
.-= jabblog uk´s last blog ..Simple things . . . =-.
Obviously, he wasn’t a gentleman! Ahhh, when chivalry ruled… Well done, Skald
.-= southlakesmom´s last blog ..Microfiction Monday =-.
These days, that lickspittle would break up with Twitter!
.-= first50´s last blog ..Microfiction Monday #17 =-.
Aw, bad form to break up over the phone! I’d have that same expression if it happened to me.
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i wonder which is worse… a breakup is a breakup, no matter how it’s done…
great story, though 🙂
.-= juliana´s last blog ..Microfiction Monday =-.
‘Lickspittle’, that’s new to me and I laughed out loud!
I really enjoyed this — amazing to think that these days talking on the phone *is* as face-to-face as many of us ever get, and that now we can get even more impersonal than people ever dreamed. I miss real phones and handwriting!
An inconvenient convenience. 😉
Nice job.
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@jabblog uk Texting a breakup would be SO much worse, hey??
@southlakesmom Thanks 😀 Chivalry is not quite dead, though CPR might be in order…
@first50 You’re probably right, and if it were one of my daughters… yup, I’d have to chase him down.
@Barbara H. Yuppers, BAD form. No chivalric mindset, and were he here today, he’d be a texting twit? A twittering twit? A… I give up 😀
@juliana Thank you! Yup, a breakup is a breakup – but some people just manage to do it with a certain amount of class. Now, if they could all do it like Jack Nicholson in “Something’s Gotta Give” – WOW!
@Susan at Stony River Ditto Susan. I do miss the letters and good old fashioned face to face! My grandparents did a good share of raising me, and my Granddad had a killer vocabulary with some of the coolest sounding words… he made me love the language with McGuffy Readers *sheesh* Some very old words 😛
@hope Thank you 😉
Ah yes, the cowardly telephone call break up. For that alone Alexander Grahm Bell should be exhumed and beaten. 😉
Actually, I quite enjoyed this take. I sat and stared at that picture for a long time before I came up with my story and I got to it down a very long and convoluted path.
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Enjoyed your take the most. lol!
.-= Rekha´s last blog ..Microfiction Monday =-.
@quilly Cowardly is exactly it! Glad you liked this take – I can definitely commiserate with the sitting and staring at the picture 😡 Hoping the muse bites me on the er, behind right quick this next time around.
@Rekha Thank you 😀
I think you did very well. You captured the beginning of technology’s hands off approach to relationships.
Dismal
.-= Nessa´s last blog ..Dismal =-.
Me? I just tell it like it is.
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