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By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to Six Sentence Story PROMPT WORD: CANVAS provided by girlieontheedge’s blog.

It was finally finished after hours and hours of work, a lifetime really, and it was extraordinary if she did say so herself. The gifted artist looked down at her hands and sighed deeply; no matter how hard she tried she always ended up with paint all over her hands and clothes.

She sat back, examining her masterpiece, it really was her best work so far. Looking around the studio she sighed again, cringing this time as she surveyed the absolutely horrid mess all around her.

Before she had a chance to clean up, familiar footsteps resounded down the hallway and a long-legged woman stood in the doorway of the studio, arms on her hips with a scowl plastered firmly upon her face.

Lifting her arms, the little artist was hefted from within the chaotic tumble of paints and dripping paintbrushes to be unceremoniously plopped into the massive bathtub now filled with warm water and bubble bath.

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to http:sammiscribbles.wordpress.com word prompt RUNE

I wore your rune
around my neck
dangled on a heavy chain

This rune it meant
so much more than
it was first intended to

In times of play and times
of stress in times of grief
it held us fast together our rune

Between you and me
this rune a bond
we swore unbreakable

Yet it could not bear
the test of time the test of fate
then you were no longer mine

Last I saw that special rune
it lay in the dust it’s chain in two my rune now nothing but broken
ruins

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Response to dVerse – Open Link Night 311 (Golden Wait)
Posted by msjadeli 
Prompt word CHRYSALIS 

Her cocoon so soft and warm
safe
Stay she would in this time and 
place

The world outside could whirl and
twirl
She’d stay inside protected a good
girl

No matter how they poked and
pried
Inside her cocoon so safe she never
cried

Out there were monsters and evil
things
Protected in her cocoon she hid her
wings

Pretending her chrysalis had yet to
be
To emerge from here they might not
see

Past translucent wings of unearthly 
cadency 
To a mind riddled with abstract 
insanity

By Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to March 2nd #1MinFiction Picture Challenge. March 2, 2022 by Cyranny

“You did what? I did not agree to that! No way, no sir, no how! What? It’s for my own good? If it’s such a good thing, you go do it and leave me here! No, I said I’m not going and I mean it! I’m not getting into that kennel, I’m not!”

“I’m not getting out of this kennel, I’m not getting out! It’s the white coats! Run, scratch, bite …. Goodnight.”

“Isn’t life wonderful? I hear the birds, the humans talking, life is good – I think I’ll go back to sleep for a while.”

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to: #TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 263, 3/1/22: #Tastetherainbow-Color Poetry. Provided by WildChild47

A Tourmaline sea

With mighty crystal capped waves

Wash red fears away

Dark indigo water swirls

To the black depths we now go

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

(Possible “R” rating -adult content)

In response to THREE THINGS CHALLENGE #892 by pensitivity 101. Your three words for this week are: BRUSH, HANDLE, BRISTLE

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Oh yes, right there. That’s it, push the handle a little harder. Oh yes, make me growl.

Now use those bristles, you know I love it when you pull my hair like that, flicking your brush just so. Knowing which spots to hit and which I don’t really like at all.

Oh my gosh, you are taking me to heaven. I don’t think I can handle much more. Let me shake out my hair and see how you’ve done.

That’s fabulous, here let me lick your face to say thank you. Maybe I’ll nip your nose a bit to remind you that although you are human, you will always be part of my dog pack!

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Response to Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the Jan 20th, 2022

January 20, 2022 by Linda G. Hill

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 20th, 2022

Looking out into the darkness I see you there

Waiting

Waiting for me

I’m not waiting for you

Looking out across the sea swept lawn
I see you there

Waiting
Waiting for me

I’m not waiting for you

This time I saw you there Waiting for me Hungering for me

Even in my darkest despair

I wasn’t waiting for you there

Looking I can see the sun my day has finally come Liquid starshine upon my face

Be gone death specter, leave this place!

131 Words By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to the 6 minute challenge picture prompt provided by STINE WRITING and Miniatures

The procedure to correct and reduce Dumbos massive ears to prevent him from warning circuses around the world about the terrible duo, has gone awry. Dr. Putinup and his trusted assistant Trumpit, strove to put down all resistance supporting the little elephants right to flight and freedom by garnering the likes of Turn-the-other-way-ary and the ever shadowy figure of the increasingly unpopular Polanites.

Upon removal of the little elephants bandages, surgeons and politicians all were shocked and stunned to find their efforts were in fact, in vain when these magnificent butterfly ears emerged and the proud little elephant asserted his independence by flapping his new wings and hopping right over the indignant and horrified faces of both Putinup and Trumpit and their staunch contingent of disbelieving miscreants.

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Response to “Ragtag Daily Prompt” word PEBBLE

Just a pebble

stranded

In the river of life

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

In response to Fandango’s Tuesday Story Starter #35 for March 1, 2022

She was quite serious when she looked me straight in the eye and said,

“Your CT scan revealed a large mass on the left lobe of your thyroid. The right also reveals numerous polyp type shadows that are most likely nothing to be concerned about.”

She was still speaking but my brain had stopped processing data at “large mass.”

The doctor touched my arm, her lips were moving, my ears told me she was uttering archaic sounds that should have made sense to me; but my brain had stopped functioning. A complete and major shut down without the benefit of a true and proper faint.

“In three weeks, alright? Do you need to put that in your calendar?” She peered at me with what I would later come to call that “ sympathetic but glad it’s not me” look.

My blank stare must have given away my lack of state of mind. A paper was placed in my hand and I was ushered out of the exit door by one of the office staff. She waved as she closed the door chiming,

“Have a wonderful rest of your day!” Before she bolted the door behind me.

I stood frozen, staring at the appointment card and instructional sheet of paper in my hand stating a biopsy was scheduled in three weeks. Three weeks? I had to suffer the next three weeks with the “C” word hanging over my head and the real idea that extinction, mine, was looming in the not too distant future.

What had she said? “Have a wonderful rest of your day!”

I now understood why she locked the door behind me. Smart woman.

…..To be Continued