“Writing is a calling, not a choice.”
—Isabel Allende
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Today's Prompt:
List posts are one of the most popular forms of blogging. Write a funny list post about all the things you are not going to do this year.
Regina's 15 Minutes:
In 2025 I am NOT going to:
- Sell my car for three magic beans, no matter dashing or convincing the traveling salesman may be.
- Climb a tree to jump out of it, just in case this is the year I spontaneously learned to fly.
- Say “Bloody Mary” into a dark mirror three times while spinning in a circle. You all know that is how horror movies start. 43 is NOT too old to be scared of things.
- Walk under a ladder, while spilling salt while smashing mirrors, and crossing the paths of black cats on Friday the 13th during an eclipse.
- Taunt the tooth fairy, set a snare for the Easter Bunny or try to trap Santa Claus. It never works anyway.
- Find a mythical portal to another world and enter it without first packing an ingenious ‘overnight’ bag that will contain everything I need to be comfortable, fed, watered, warm, clothed appropriately and able to purchase supplies in the new world. I may need to enlist the magic of the Sword in the Stone sorcerer guy who fit all those books in that little carpet bag.
- Sleep on the ground without first rolling down a blanket and using my bag, jacket towel or other soft squishy or otherwise comfortable rest as a pillow for my head.
- Have a picnic on an anthill.
- Fly to the moon without the aid of massive wings.
- Summon the demon of bad old boyfriends to curse the ones that hurt me... frankly they were few and far between, so the demon would probably backfire and return from visiting my exes to extract vengeance on me for them, as I am sure I was the guilty party.
- Deliver exploding cigars via drone to fat cats and tycoons on yachts on the South Pacific
- Learn to sing old sea shanties and dirges to entertain the sailors shipping out tomorrow.
- Learn to stoke the coal engines of a dirigible.
- Tame a werewolf and make it both my pet and my sex slave.
- Trap a vampire and make it play 20 questions with me in the pouring rain.
- Light my skin on fire with jet fuel
- Race myself around the Equator
- Storm a castle.
- Rape and pillage.
- Set siege to any land –but I may to a small lemon tart... if it is gluten free and a cheat day
- Stay the same weight
- Not grow or evolve
- Not become more than I am
- Not try to feel like enough
- Not try to connect with my higher self
- Not seek guidance from a higher power
- Not read and write and grow and be creative
- Not buck the current of my life
- Stay stuck right where I am and take no responsibility for my daily choices and habits. Not remember that if I am not changing it, I am choosing it.
- Not expand my comfort zone with intention and deliberation
- Feel guilty about 21-30 because they are not funny, but they are real things I want to do – the opposite of? - and now that I have written them down, they can become.
- Feel guilty about being vulnerable and sharing something real.
- Care about who agrees with me and who doesn’t.
- Worry about getting everyone’s approval.
- Worry about everyone liking me.
- Arm wrestle a three armed man in a karaoke bar while someone sings “Pontoon” in Korean.
- Fist fight a princess in matching hoop skirts.
- Smash a house with a baseball bat, pin hammer, sledge hammer or wrecking ball without prior approval and all appropriate licensing and insurance.
- Correct a boxer mid fight about his stance.
- Dump a drink on someone in a courthouse, without reasonable and explicit extenuating circumstances.
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Snow White and the Wicked Curse: Chapter 1
Snow White and the Vicious Curse: Chapter 2
Snow White and the Seven Thieves: Chapter 3
The final chapter, Snow White and the Poisoned Apple.
Prefer to read the whole story at once? Grab your copy of Snow: The Complete Erotic Series now! All five books are coming soon in Paperback.
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Check out her books:
Snow White and the Wicked Queen: Chapter 1
Snow White and the Vicious Curse: Chapter 2
Snow White and the Seven Thieves: Chapter 3
Snow White and the Poisoned Apple: The Final Chapter
Prefer to read the whole story at once? Grab your copy of Snow: The Complete Erotic Series now! All five books are available now as ebooks and paperbacks. Coming soon in Large Print format!
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