Flash Fiction For The Purposeful Practitioner …February 26, 2016
The opening sentence for the February 26th Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner: “Nothing is ever as easy as it looks…”
- A photo prompt and an introductory sentence/ topicis to be used as your ‘muse’. They will arrive promptly at midnight each Friday morning.
- Include the photo prompt and its credits with your story on your blog. Use of theintroductory sentence/ topic is optional. Some followers like the introductory sentence ideas.
- All stories are to be crafted and honed to under 200 words in length.
HAIR CUT
“Sherry, I thought you were getting your haircut ,” Janice said.
“I can’t because my mom had to work today and dad is too busy to take me.”
“I bet I can cut it for you. I’ve watched my mom cut people’s hair lots of times.”
“Do you think you can do it?”
“Sure! It looks easy.
“Good! You can cut it and I won’t have to wait for mom to take me to the salon. She will be so surprised when she see me.”
Janice cut Sherry’s hair so it hung just above her shoulders. They were looking in the mirror with a puzzled look on their face when Sherry’s mom came in to let her know she got off work early so she could take her to the salon.
Her mom screamed! “Look what you did!”
Janice looked at her and said, “I guess nothing is ever as easy as it looks!”
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Copyright © 2016 Written by Jessie Cross ~ All rights reserved
Haha. It’s very funny and something that truly happens. I tried to cut my bangs once as a girl, didn’t go well. In highschool I let my friend try to colour my hair, and ended up at the salon anyways with an orange dye job. Best to let professionals cut/die your hair 🙂
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Glad you enjoyed it! I cut my own bangs when I was 6 years old….on picture day!
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Oh no. Why is it little girls think, a small bang trim will be easy to do. Lol
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Hahaha! What child hasn’t tried to cut their own hair or their friends hair! LOL! My kids certainly did that! Cute story, Jessie!
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Thank you, Joy! I was one of those kids…not this story, but I cut bangs for myself when I was 6 years old while my mother was outside hanging clothes on the clothesline. And, it was picture day at school! I buried the evidence in the ground by the side of the house. (of course she noticed my crooked bangs right away. 😦 )
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Hahaha. So childish and so true… This story brings a lot of memory Jessie. Great take on the prompt. 🙂
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Thank you! They can probably laugh about now.😃
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That’s for sure! I can imagine their stunned faces bursting into laughter. 😀 😀
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Hah! Nothing ever is! 😄ohh if only she had just waited a little bit more…
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Yes! Then all would have been happier! 😃
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LOL, that’s a good one!!
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Thank you! 😃
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Definitely a true story in my house!!!! Please feel free to connect it to my group of essays… if you like. The others would enjoy reading this one!
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Thank you! I’ll do that. 😃
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Oh boy – the kid haircut! Whoops!
Now let’s talk about those Fisher Price toys…I loved mine. I had that barn and I think my sister had the little bus. Such memories…
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Those were the good old days! 😃
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I actually did this recently.
Didn’t turn out soo good either.
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Ha! Ha! I’ve done the same thing! The hairdressers make it look so easy! 🙂
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Oh I love this! My friend cut my hair once too when I was little and my mum was raging.. 😀
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Kids are so funny, they really think they have things under control, but find out that they do not. Thank you for reading and commenting.
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