Photo Copyright –Douglas M. MacIlroy
“Looks like a tennis ball on steroids,” Linda squinted at the gray blob.
Ethan rolled his eyes and turned the screen so it faced him again. “Definitely not a tennis ball.”
He shouldn’t have caved and showed her. Not that he ever did manage to withstand her pleading. Linda’s persistence could persuade a zebra to do away with its stripes.
“A cement globe?” She pressed.
Ethan shook his head.
“Am I at least getting warmer? Oh! Is it a post-global-warming thing?”
He sighed. It was hopeless. Might as well give it up.
“It’s Pluto, barely netted by the Sun.”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Na'ama Yehuda 
I’m not sure they have a future together…!
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🙂 unless she persuades him to … 😉
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It can be frustrating when the one we love persistently fails to understand what we have created. It can also be a spur to making our creations more comprehensible.
That’s a nice story, Na’ama. I love the way you capture Linda’s sudden ‘inspiration’ about global warming!
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🙂 Well, gotta say it crossed me mind when I seen that parched globe meeself … 😉
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I like the little lesson in astrology here.
‘Barely netted’, indeed!
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🙂 Little Dwarf Planet is keen on escaping the edges of this solar-system, me thinks … 😉
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Very wry observation on folk. I do like the image of someone who could persuade a Zebra to part with their stripes.
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Well, at least he believes she can … 😉
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Pluto, barely netted by the sun. Great stuff.
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🙂 Thanks!
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Poor Pluto,.. in and out and in again…
And isn’t this typical of the Venus/Mars thing? We are supposed to read the other’s mind and understand what is what? Not fair Ethan!
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Well, as they say, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, Aliens are from Mars (oh, wait … does this make men … Aliens?!!! Ya know, if so, this explains SO much!!!!) 😉
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Yes, darlin, that’s exactly it!! Men are aliens.
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Yeah, well. A little girl I’d worked with once asked me (having seen her infant brother unclothed) “why do boys have extra bits?” Alien is as good an explanation as any. 😉
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Buahaha!!!
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😁
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I enjoyed the dialogue and could feel Ethan’s exasperation. It’s always a bit disheartening to try and explain your creation when you know that person isn’t going to understand anyway. Nice take on the prompt, Na’ama.
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Thanks, Brenda!
Yes … and sometimes it IS hard to get into someone else’s brain to know what they’d intended in their creative endeavors … So perhaps the frustration can go both ways. … Who said the artistic passions are easy to live with? 😉 Na’ama
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Na’ama Y’karah,
Love your description of persuasive. 😀 I haven’t decided what planet men come from and I gave birth to three of them. SMH. Love the story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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🙂 I guess we’re all stardust, and some of us are a bit more baffling than others … 😉 Na’ama
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Well, He would have had to tell me, and then explain what the heck that meant!!! hahaha I guess some of us are just not visionary when it comes to paper mache spheres.. Excellent write by the way!!
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🙂 Thank you Violet! 🙂
Muse is fab, though it is hardly always as ‘intuitive’ to others as it may be to the one who envisioned the idea … 🙂
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Love the statement, “Tennis ball on steroid”. From where are they watching it anyway.
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🙂 Yeah … it’s all in the perspective, eh? 😉
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I knew what it was all along – wake up Linda!
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But of course! 😉 Thanks Keith!
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Great story. Poor ‘ole Pluto!
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🙂 Poor ‘ole Pluto indeed! 🙂
Thank you, Lisa!
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Ha Wonderful bit of creative license used here. Love it.
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🙂 Thanks, Jo! It was fun to write! 🙂
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I love the phrase about persuading a zebra to do away with its stripes. Really good take.
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Thanks Jilly!
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I happen to know someone who may fit that description … (well, sort’a … ;))
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Lovely little interchange, well told
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Thank you Michael! 🙂
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