Free Write - Coffee Cream

 

The prompt reminded us of a Rorscharch Test. It was Julia's turn, but when the barista brought her espresso, we couldn't decide what the cream splotch was and decided that it would be a greaet prompt.

Julia's Free Write 

She definitely was a writer: awake at 2 a.m.? Not a problem – she’d simply go back to her current novel.

Mid-morning after a walk in the countryside it would be the current blog.

Lunch? Forget it if an idea hit.

Early afternoon: bingo, yet another idea for a novel, a blog or an article.

About the only thing she no longer wrote were letters.

Modern IT had taken over – where will all those lovely words and sentences disappear?

Fifty years from now, there will be no one’s memories to peruse unless they have gathered them on to an USB key.  Whole lives no longer present. Will we go back to oral histories and traditions?

But I digress: mid-afternoon is good for a couple more hours on the novel.

Coffee, or in her case tea, with a friend doesn’t break the creative flow. Another novel will be born.

So perhaps the image in her friend’s coffee was appropriate: a hand, albeit left hand, with three little dots…

Visit Julia's blog. She has written and taken photos and loves syncing up with friends.  Her blog can be found: https://viewsfromeverywhere.blogspot.com/ 

 D-L's Free Write

 Megan was a coffee artist, probably one of the few in the world.

People would line up outsided the café that she now owned for her cream on coffee designs. They chose from animals, geometric shapes, houses, airplanes and card.

The man in front of her now was drop-dead gorgeous, more so even than George Clooney in his prime. "Can you do a giraffe, three dots on the side?" he asked.

It was a first for her and not on her list. "I'll try."

She dipped her brush into the whipped cream, unflavored.

The ears and neck appeared. The man would have to be satisfied with just a giraffe head.

"Voilà," she said, handing him the coffee mug decorated with purple morning glories.

"Wonderful," he said. "I'm from CNN. We want to do a segment on you."

After the segment appeared, Megan's business grew. She had to train other coffee artists. She opened franchises. Her business kept growing all thanks to a giraffe. 

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 

Cafè image

The barista was new. You could tell because not only had we never seen her before in the dozens of times we’d been here, she forgot to add the little morsel of Martel chocolate on the side. Not that we craved the chocolate; it was milk-based, not noir.

The morning was already warm, and she wasn’t moving very quickly. Twenty minutes to bring two teas and an espresso. And when did we think she’d return with the change from my hundred-franc note?

Unlike many veteran baristas, who were probably bored with the job, she made no apparent attempt to create a froth design on the surface of the café. Nonetheless, there was an image. The kind of Rorschach test that could be anything.

I voted that it was the statue of Freddy Mercury in Montreux. Arm raised with microphone, the iconic defiant pose.

But what were the three dots? Could you click on them and change the image like a website page?

The tea is cool enough to drink. No change yet.

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.