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Fiction Friday: Oh, Grow Up

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Friday Fictioneer challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo prompt.
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Friday Fictioneer photo prompt. Copyright Madison Woods

Friday Fictioneer photo prompt. Copyright Madison Woods

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With a stick full of dangling slime, Sammy ran towards his classmates, yelling “Moose snot! Moose snot!” Frank pushed him away, snarling, “Oh, grow up.”

Next, Sammy spotted Tina. “Moose snot!” he yelled, stumbling towards her, waving his forestal trophy. Tina lunged, snatching it right out of his hand. “Grow up,” she hissed.

But so far, growing up wasn’t interesting or fun for Sammy.

Twenty-five years later, he read about a Canadian-American project researching the decline of the Alces alces; Tina was the lead scientist.

Now that’s interesting, Sammy thought, wondering if it was too late to start growing up.

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To read other stories based on this photo, select the smiley blue frog.

Lanyard Collection

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I continue to put “like things with like” in my de-cluttering efforts. I surprised myself — again — when I discovered I had a lanyard collection.

Lanyard collection, several lanyards hanging from a close hanger

Lanyard collection

My favorite is the Star Wars lanyard. I bought it at Home Depot.

Close up of the lanyards

Up close

The blue bling lanyard is long gone; the sparkly squares fell off one by one. At the office, my meeting room trail could be tracked by the blue sparkles I left behind.

A blue sparkly lanyard before an earlier post. All the sparkly squares fell off, one by one.

A former lanyard, the bling now all gone

I know I went through a phase when I used a brown shoestring as a lanyard for my office badge. What was I thinking? I don’t know. No photo of that one, fortunately.