Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Prompt: Meanwhile back at the ranch

The funny farm

El Ranchero

ranch dressing

Ross cross Dress for Less

Less is More

More or Less

If horses were wishes

When you wish upon a star

Star crossed lovers

Sons and Lovers

My Three Sons

Third time's the charm

Prince Charming

Please don't squeeze the Charmin

Charmander, Peek-a-Chu, Pokemon, go away

Go away little girl

Johnny Mathis?

Meanwhile back at the ranch, she sat looking out the window at the rain, at the horses in the rain, more sleek than ever.

Meanwhile back at the ranch the grass was being shorn by a patchwork flock of goats, whose relentless ruminations were a quiet cacophony reminiscent of car wheels on a gravel road.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, our hero was nervously pacing between the barn and the silo, plotting his next decisive move.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Jeremiah confronted his parents on the wisdom of naming him after an amphibian.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, as a group of writers hurriedly recorded their thoughts before reading them aloud, one alone amongst them sat perplexed, wondering if recording and then reciting a random stream of consciousness, some of it vaguely humorous, would be well-received.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, she wondered about so many things, too many to capture as they flew across her mind. Thoughts on self-love as a radical act, on kindness, contemplations of loneliness, of alienation, of the meaning of community, of what is important to us and can we change it in time to save ourselves. Thoughts on human nature and if it is ultimately what will save us or destroy us and really, does it even matter? All this to the rhythmic thrum of the rain, the rain, the rain coming down from the roof in ribbons and ropes of water because she'd neglected to clean out the gutters. They must be filled with leaves she thought as she stared out at the chestnut-colored horses in the falling rain.

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