Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Six Sentence Stories - Requirements

After a hiatus from the blogging world, I am back again. I'm starting up again with the Six Sentence Stories blog hop hosted by Denise Farley each week. Week after week bloggers participating in the blog hop link their creative endeavors to her site, Girlie on the Edge's Blog, and that is where you will be able to read their six sentence stories and make comments if you choose. I am linking my fictional post to Six Sentence Stories - Requirements.




She turned off the news and later the same day the computer, refusing to listen or read the bantering between the candidates on the news reports and the statements flying off the cuffs. 

Becoming a registered voter had been important to her, but relying on anything other than the voter’s pamphlet and maybe a few flyers that came in the mail from her party of choice seem inconsequential to her. 

Right will reign she thought. 

Though world history classes were requirements when she was in school, somehow many of the details, if ever absorbed by her mind, had faded with time and weren’t stirring up any concerns until one week before the election. 

“How can they do that!” she wondered. After scouring the internet, she found the information answering her question, but now it was too late and she wasn’t going to be able to vote this time.

10 comments:

  1. The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord. This verse keeps me sane. The ads for our governor's race have been horrific. I can't wait until 11/7. Good post.

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    1. Yes, it is. Keeps me sane too.
      This was a little different that the path I take to writing my SSS, but I felt a need to write it.

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  2. This is very timely as our mailboxes are getting flooded with campaign literature that doesn't really say anything. It also really drives home the point about needing to pay attention and register to vote in time.

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  3. There was a time, years ago, when the briefest of exposure to the 'News' on tv and internet would have me walking out the day, the thought "How can they do that' and 'They didn't really say what I heard them say, did they?'.
    So I stopped. (Watching, not walking or thinking, lol).
    Good 'cautionary Six'

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    1. When I try not to think, I remember that is probably what some are hoping for, so I carry on. Thinking and constructively doing something still requires a bit of work in my life. LOL

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  4. Grandpa said, "Register to vote the day you turn 18!" He was right.

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  5. Good 6, Pat. A reminder for sure. While I too once weaned myself of "the news", it seems nowadays I cannot keep a complete blind eye. It's worrisome, our current "state of affairs", current climate of... (fill in the blank). *sigh*

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    1. I so agree. It is impossible to keep a blind eye now.

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