Weekend Challenge: Keep It Simple, Silly!

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I thought about getting fancy for the weekend challenge, but I haven't even started sorting and wrapping presents yet and haven't finished holiday cards. And I'm guessing I'm not alone!

So for our weekend challenge I'm offering up a simple favorite of mine: Three nouns, a random place (one generic place, one specific), and a love quote (some

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[erinm_4600]

one for me, please and thanks!

[ext_4084645]

Sure thing! Good luck!

Three nouns: Anxiety, Application, Phone
Random place: Kitchen. And/or Walton Hills, Ohio
quote:

“Love all, trust a few,

Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy

Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend

Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,

But never tax'd for speech.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

[agdhani]

Since I'm a glutton...and I'm SO far behind, give me two sets and I'll see what I can do to jumpstart my 2 weeks off :)

[ext_4084645]

Sure thing! I hope they inspire. Yours are:

Nouns: People, Judgment, Basket

Places: Novalaise, France And/Or Living Room

Quote: “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. Elizabeth Gilbert ~ Eat, Pray, Love

And for round two:

Nouns: Cigarette, Country, Signature
Places: Belle Glade Camp, Florida And/Or Mud Room
Quote: “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

[agdhani]

Used the place and nouns from the first batch in this excerpt. Still looking for ways to use the rest :)

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“Let’s see what you’ve got…I’ll let you know.” There had been faces gleaned from what he had read, mostly faces that matched the sketches some other officer had brought down to him during the morning as his work had begun. He had provided a few more faces to the sketcher, but after that, the things he saw began to repeat on a loop as the day-to-day activities in that place tediously drudged on without variation. By now, the Protectorate would be hunting down those new faces. He did not think the larger equipment would offer much more. Buildings, however, often held traces of those who entered but did not touch anything else but a door latch, a table-top, a toilet or a sink.

Mental work sounded preferable to returning to an empty living room with an equally empty liquor cabinet to taunt him into doing something he would regret.

He studied the street the facility was on, a non-descript, normal enough street with people shuffling

[agdhani]

and the use of the 3 nouns from the second set (still hoping to work in the quotes and the places):

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“Suppose you have a plan…” Nepo sat down next to him, seeming to groan and struggle with great effort without making a sound, and held his hands out to the flames. He had intentionally avoided Donn’s proximity as much as he could, a status both men had seemed to prefer, and though Donn bristled now to have the tracker so close, this conversation was to be expected.

The end of their journey was near. There was little need for pretense any longer.

“Tomorrow I’ll see Hallister. From there it’ll be St. Albans, then home.” He would report the chain of events, what was found, who had lived and died, announce his change in status and his claim on LaGuardia, and once he was confident of the support of HOPE and Hallister, he would return to LaGuardia to stake that claim.

“You could send the HOPE soldiers on their way…send her with them if that’s her…”

Donn shook his head, glancing over his shoulder to where the pale woman huddled beneath

[badly_knitted]

I'll give it a go!

[ext_4084645]

Great! Yours are:

Nouns: Shopping, Opinion, Diamond

Places: Waterloo, Belgium And/Or Patio

Quote: ““I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[badly_knitted]

Yay, thank you, those sound good.

[badly_knitted]

Finally finished! I think I used most of my prompts in this one, but it wound up being a lot longer than I expected.

FAKE Fic 'Fatherly Advice' is here: https://badly-knitted.livejournal.com/2567221.html

[cmk418]

I am in. Thank you!

[ext_4084645]

Sure thing! Yours are:

Nouns: Guidance, Satisfaction, Ambition

Random Place: Oasis, California And/Or Dining Room

Quote: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ~ Rumi

[helsinkibaby]

I’m in! Please!

[ext_4084645]

Sure thing! And sorry for the delay. Yours are:

Nouns: Queen, Opinion, Education

Random Places: Los Barrios, Spain And/Or Library/Office

Quote: “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

― Tom Bodett