sometimes you make up writing games for yourself bc you notice your coaster is the Catch Phrase wheel. i took four words touching, and wrote a bit quickly and off the top of my weird head.
anyone want to play? choose any four consecutive words on the wheel and a writing prompt.
mine were:
neil diamond
groundhog day
think tank
left field
to some, neil diamond's invitation to participate in the think tank came out of left field.
if you ask caroline fisherbergen of ohio, she's skeptical. "I mean, a focus group maybe...perhaps a little feed back on a new detergent or some turkey bacon, okay, I can see it, but an ongoing, five-year-commitment to NASA's grant to reassess the alignment of the planets and their consistency with the Mayan calendar? c'mon people, that's a bit much even for mr.shiny shirts.
she continued, "are you SURE they meant neil? there wasn't some sort of mail mixup?" she shook her head in disbelief. "i just don't get it. I mean, he's got opinions and feedback aplenty, but he's always seemed a bit lost in time and space, if you ask me. I date the guy for 4 weeks--okay, maybe, maybe five, and for years after, he's all the time rehashing it, 'when did we meet, honey? was it spring? was it summer? the days were short, no they were long, yes long! but it was good, I remember it being good. yeah?'
"after awhile, it felt like that movie Groundhog Day. i'm just like, "dude, it was a month. let it goooo. I don't remember, you don't remember, mostly we were drunk and on mushrooms. we were 20 and it was the 60s. who cares?"
finally, she throws up her hands, "i'm just not sure they've chosen the right guy is all."
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