No Line

May 15, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Things Kids Say, Writing Tags: Amusement Park, CCC, Creative writing, Family, Flash Fiction, Funny, Micro-fiction, Oops, Photo prompt, Plans, Ride, Writing Challenge 6 Comments

“There’s no line!” Margo pulled Adina’s hand with one of hers and pointed with the other. “Let’s hurry!”

Adina followed Margo’s finger, shielding her eyes from the sun. It’s been a long day already and they’d only gotten in a little over an hour ago. The drive. The stops. The lines for the tickets. The lines for the entrance. The lines for the bathroom. The lines to the lines …

Her eyes met the target.

What was that!?

A contraption rose ahead, metal-barred and plastic-sheathed, crisscrossed with steps and zigzagged horrors.

“Come on!” Margo danced on the balls of her feet, ecstatic.

Adina felt the hotdog that she didn’t even eat yet threaten a revisit.

No way she was going up that thing. Nope. Ain’t gonna happen.

“Must be a reason no one’s there,” she tried.

“Yeah! Because it is ‘by reservation.’ Aren’t you glad I called ahead and made one?”

For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge

Reconsidered Romance

December 18, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: 100WordChallenge, Choices, Classics, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Funny, Micro-fiction, Movies, Photo prompt, Reality, Sound Of Music, Teenagers 43 Comments

Photo prompt: © Dale Rogerson

It was better in the movie.

She’d slipped on the snow and had a wet imprint of her behind on her dress and a freezing spot in her lower back. His shoes got drenched when he’d stepped in a slush puddle, and generated awful squeaky sounds in every step. The benches needed deicing or they risked breaking their necks if they as much as tried to climb them, let alone jump around.

“I am sixteen, going on seventeen, and I’m going back inside,” she declared, teeth chattering.

“I am seventeen going on eighteen, and I’ll beat you to the house…”

For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers

Fashion Statement

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Celebrity, fashion, Funny, Nicaragua, Odd, One Word Sunday, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Store, Unexpected 13 Comments

Photo: Inbar Asif

For some reason it seemed

This ensemble

Should work …

To select

Or object

Or someone’s cash

To collect.

For the One Word Sunday challenge: Fashion

Unexpected Sales

January 28, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Beach, Dinosaurs, Funny, Just for fun, Ko Samui, Lens-Artists, Photo Challenge, Photo prompt, Poetry, Thailand, travel, Unexpected, Vendor 12 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

I did not quite expect,

On the beach, in the sun,

A visit from dinos

Puppeted by a man.

Granted these all were smaller

Than the ones I would fear,

But I still did not really

Want them too near.

My eyes must’ve

Been wide

As I waved

Him aside,

But two chairs

To the right

He sold three

With delight.

For the Lens-Artist Photo Challenge: Unexpected

Gentle Giant

January 8, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: A moment in time, fpj-photo-challenge, Funny, Gentle giant, Helper, Just for fun, Laundry, Pets, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry 10 Comments

Photo: Karen Forte

Hello Mom

I have come

To help with

The clothes.

Can you see

Just how gentle

I am being

With those?

I did not bite a hole

Heel or toe

In the socks.

Nothing like

What I’d done

To the new

Garden hose.

For this week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge: Gentle

Cookie Share

June 18, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Professional Development, Speech Language Pathology, Things Kids Say, Writing Tags: children, Cookies, Funny, Logic, Riddle, Sharing, Smart cookie, speech therapy, SYW, Things Kids Say 3 Comments

round biscuit with heart jelly in center

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“Now it’s my turn to ask you a question,” she said. “And you have to answer.”

“Fair enough,” I smiled. After all, I’d just subjected this child to a long list of questions to which she had to respond.

“What if,” she began, twinkle-eyed, “you had only one cookie, but you needed to share it with fifty kids?”

“Hmm …” I pondered. “That’s a tough one. One cookie only?”

“Yep!” She raised her eyebrows in satisfaction at what had to be my stupefied expression.

“Can I hand out something else instead?” I bargained.

“Nope. One cookie, fifty kids.” The eight-year-old was utterly too pleased with herself.

I smelled a rat but I wasn’t going to show it. She’d earned this after soldiering on through the difficult portions of the testing battery. “I give up.” I raised my hands in surrender. “I don’t see how I can split one cookie between fifty kids.”

“I never said how big the cookie had to be, did I?” she chortled. “If you have a gigantic humongous cookie it would be easy peasy to have everyone share it!”

For Cee’s Share Your World June-18-2018