DISCUSSION THREAD -- November 2021 -- 75 Word Writing Challenge

[Parson]

@Provincial .... Family Man .... Heartfelt thanks is not always the response that the giver wants or expects.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Daysman: Thank you for showing us the human side of desperate times.

Provincial: Thank you for an ironic tale of a legacy.

 

[Provincial]

@Parson, @Victoria Silverwolf, thanks.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Justin Swanton: Thank you for showing us what is really important.

 

[Parson]

@Justin Swanton .... Pariah.... Gratitude is the art of seeing and appreciating what is really important, verses what is in actuality merely noise.

 

[Parson]

@juelz4sure .... The Lost Flower .... Flowers are also grateful in obvious but often unheard ways.

 

[Parson]

@worldofmutes .... Easy Listening .... We fill with gratitude when we find someone who is on our wavelength.
*This story sent me to Google more than any story that did not have a foreign language component.

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

*This story sent me to Google

Glad you wrote that, I was starting to feel way outta my depth -ya learn something new every day!

 

[Parson]

@Phyrebrat .... The Blur .... A haunting story of the sacrifice of love and the moons which hold a message.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

juelz4sure: Thank you for a heartwarming example of kindness.

worldofmutes: Thank you for an introspective portrait of one who perceives.

Phyrebrat: Thank you for a surreal parable of remembrance.

 

[The Judge]

I'm in, but *SPOILER ALERT* I've gone rhyming...

Forgive my callous attitude,​

For in exploring "gratitude"​

I've gone for moral turpitude.​

(Something of a platitude,​

Please bear it with some fortitude.)​

But poems of this magnitude​

Require some innate aptitude.​

Alas, my poor ineptitude​

Suggests advanced senectitude.​

So your forgiving latitude​

Will reap my fervent gratitude!​

 

[Parson]

@Starbeast .... Put a Little Love in Your Heart and the World Will be a Better Place .... When charity keeps giving good things happen.

@M. Robert Gibson .... Kajar and the Ogre .... Sometimes who thanks you is an utter surprise.

@The Judge .... The [Secret] Anthem of the AI Servitors .... Sometimes giving thanks sounds a lot like terrible taunts.
*I think the Judge just got a whole new Cronitude.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Help me; I’ve just thought, ‘oh, I better post my 75 entry before close’ and then see I’ve already posted it a few days ago.

Ageing is a real thing, then.

 

[mosaix]

Help me; I’ve just thought, ‘oh, I better post my 75 entry before close’ and then see I’ve already posted it a few days ago.

Ageing is a real thing, then.

That is so familiar.

 

[Parson]

Help me; I’ve just thought, ‘oh, I better post my 75 entry before close’ and then see I’ve already posted it a few days ago.

Ageing is a real thing, then.

Wait until you are in your seventh decade and there's no fooling yourself that you are "just as good as you ever were."

 

[Parson]

@therapist .... Gratitude Day .... Sometimes thanks can end up being rather painful and a lot more like a taunt.

 

[Ursa major]

I'm in a few hours early, having finally decided not to run with a really short entry, namely:

Thanks in advance for the votes.

 

[Ursa major]

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The challenge has now closed to new entries and the poll is open at the link below:

POLL -- November 2021 75-Word Challenge -- READ FIRST POST!​

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[therapist]

I was really torn between 'Anthem of AI servitors' by @The Judge
and 'Note for Amy' by @Venusian Broon —A very effective use of epistolary.
Ended up voting for the judge. It was too stylish to ignore. Someone please put some music behind it and have a computer sing it. Would make a great theme song for the 'Portal' computer games.

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

Another vote for for the 'puters national anthem (Anthem of AI servitors by @The Judge ) -loads of great grateful stories, but that one was just too catchy to ignore this time out.
Thanks for all the stories