Free Write - Puzzles

 

The Free Write this week was very different. Instead of a café we went to Julia's house where she was baby sitting. Toys were every where and two adult guests were a pleasant addition to the atmosphere. Sherlock, our dog, loved his freedom in the garden and was the recipient of new interactive toy fish. We wrote in the winter garden.

The best part is the flow of creativity no matter where we are and under what conditions.

D-L's Free Write

"How long will the table be unusable?" Thomas asked. 

Angela looked at the jigsaw table, then out the window at the heavy snow. She couldn't even see the gate.

Everyone was now snowed in for the long Thanksgiving weekend.

Last night at 3:27, she'd gotten up, found an old jigsaw puzzle and laid it out. She thought it would be a great thing bringing the family together like when she was little.

"We can't start until the border is finished," Aunt May said.

"We need to put similar colors together," Angela's mother said.

"Yuck!" her daughter Emily said.

"I'll be in my room with my laptop," her son Grant said.

So much for old-time family togetherness, Angela thought.

The wind howled as she went to the kitchen to make hot turkey sandwiches from yesterday's leftovers, leftover like old-time jigsaw puzzles.

Visit D-L.'s website  https://dlnelsonwriter.com, is the author of 15 fiction and three non fiction books. Her 300 Unsung Women, bios of women who battled gender limitations, can be purchased  at https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/300-unsung-women-d-l-nelson/1147305797?ean=9798990385504

Rick's Free Write 

When Jake returned from doing the laundry, there it was. The whole table was covered with tiny chips of irregular-shaped cardboard. Another puzzle!

Not just any puzzle. Not a simple puzzle. A thousand-piece puzzle!

The table would be covered for days as Trudy painstakingly fitted the pieces together. They’d have to eat on the coffee table again. Last puzzle took 10 days.

Maybe this was a sign that they should move to a bigger flat. One where they could set up a card table – just for puzzles.

Or maybe he could find her an online puzzle site. But would that be the same challenge?

He had to admit, the first puzzle, a few weeks ago, he had ‘helped.’ Became a bit obsessed. Actually, pretty much took over toward the end. Posted photos on FB as proof of their achievement.

But not this time, he vowed. He wasn’t going to get sucked in.

Of course, if he helped, maybe they’d get the dining table back faster.

Rick Adams is an aviation journalist and publisher of www.aviationvoices.com, a weekly newsletter reporting the top stories about the airline industry. He is the author of The Robot in the Simulator. AI in Aviation Training.  

Julia's Free Write

Her life was in a muddle.

The kids were grown, on their own and even both married.

She hit the jackpot there as both her DILs were not only perfect for the son they were with, but she actually like them!

She had absolutely nothing to complain about.

Yet, today she was in a slump. Sneezing her head off, tissue after tissue – oh maybe that’s it? Allergies? A cold coming on?

With two days “free” in her usually more-than-busy-life, she could do what she wanted, when she wanted. So start planning she said to herself.

But first, time to tackle one of her favorite pastimes: there was a puzzle on the side table just waiting her attention. 

All in all, life was good?

How many others could actually do what they wanted?

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