Hello Dear Readers! It’s time for the weekend Trifecta Challenge. The challenge is to add 33 words to these three words: charge, century and lost for a total of 36 words.
“How’d you buy the Admiral refrigerator, Colonel?”
“Charge card for the Admiral, Admiral Kernal, Sir!”
Where’s my Colonel Sanders Chicken, Colonel?
“Uh . . .”
“This century Colonel!”
“Must’ve lost it in the Admiral, Admiral Kernal”
Until next time . . . I love you
The Trifecta Weekend writing challenge is: We want you to give us thirty-three words of advice. Your advice can be to anyone or about anything. We only ask that you make it uniquely yours.
We are what our imaginations dream ourselves to be.
The trick is in learning to work the imagination to our advantage.
We might as well be happy while we’re waiting to be happy!
Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers! It’s time for this weekends 33-word Trifecta Writing challenge where challengers were asked to write 33 words containing an IDIOT therein . . . so naturally I thought immediately of my buddy, Al Gore, 
but then I realized I had read the prompt wrong. Ha ha!! Oops, my bad!!
Therefore, the following 33-word entry has been amended to contain an IDIOM therein:
Pickles the snake was up in arms
Cause she had to work in a walk in
But Pickles the snake had to use her charms
In order to coax her pet croc in!
Until next time . . . I love you
P.S. This post is dedicated to the real-life Pickles, the pet snake of my Blogging Buddy, Bucky over at behindthemaskofabuse.
Hello Dear Readers and welcome to Saturday, where you aren’t reading this because you are outside enjoying the wonderful spring weather unless you’re inside at your computer reading this in which case * high five* !!
This weekend’s Trifecta Writing Challenge is to write 33 words using these three words:
Rebellion
Rain
Remember
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Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers! This weekend’s 33-word Trifecta Challenge is as follows:
The word lithium comes from the Greek word lithos, which means stone (http://chemistry.about.com/od/lithium/a/10-Lithium-Facts.htm). This weekend, we want you to give us a thirty-three response using the word stone as one of your thirty-three words. You can use any definition of the word that you’d like, but we are specifically looking for serious, well-conceived entries. This isn’t the weekend for light-hearted posts about the difficulty of posting before the linkz close, and we are not looking for hilarious commentary about your cats (THIS time). We want something serious and deep from you guys this weekend, because the sun is starting to shine a bit more, and we think we can handle it now. Take your time with it and give us your very best work.
Carve thy bust
In injudicious stone?
Thou must?
Maketh not
A thing beheld
Upon thy
Wizened throne
The jamboree of C’est la vie
Of destiny unknown
Tis merely thine own hieroglyph
Etched into a stone
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Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers. The Weekend Trifecta 33-word writing challenge is to write exactly 33 words in first person narrative.
“Name?”
“Irene,” I said.
“Last name?”
“Iver,” I responded.
“Problem?”
“Needle.” I stated.
“Needle?”
“In my eye.” I explained.
“How?”
“Sewing eyelets.” I answered.
“Einstein!!”
“What?” I demanded.
“Nothing. Hurt?”
“AY!-yi!-yi!” I answered.
This week’s 33-word Trifecta Challenge was to rearrange words from the 33rd page of Trifecta’s favorite book: Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge.
Dr. Goldstein peered carefully beneath his ribs. “No bicycle, no basketball-hoop — pine needles!
Kevin could not abide the thought of pine needles!
“Hackmatack needles?” Kevin shouted with panic.
“Never mind!” Dr. Goldstein said.
Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers! This weekend’s 33-Word Trifecta Writing Challenge was simply to write 33 words incorporating some hyperbole in there somewhere.
“There. Finished!” The hairdresser handed Howard a mirror. “Do you like it?”
Howard thought he resembled a cross between a Sasquatch on meth during a Tsunami and Shirley Temple.
“Yes.” he said anyway.
Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers. This weekend the Trifecta Challengers have dared us to scour through our favorite pieces of literature for 33 of the best words we can find.
I chose the following 33 words from one of my most dearly beloved writers, Robert Benchley. They are from the beginning of his essay entitled Mutiny on the “Bounty” from a volume of his collected essays: My Ten Years in a Quandary and how they grew. (It’s available free online here.)
If we had a goat,” I said to Mr. MacGregor, “it would solve all our problems.”
“A what?” he asked, without looking up.
“A goat,” I repeated.
“It would solve what?” he asked . . .
Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers! This weekend’s Trifecta Challenge was simply to write a 33 word dialogue.
Until next time . . . I love you
This weekend’s 33 word Trifecta Challenge is as follows: This weekend, we’re sending you back to English 101 to revisit the concept of literary devices. We want you to give us a 33-word example of personification. Wait. What? You forget what that is? It’s the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals (http://literary-devices.com).
Trifecta Challenge threw its gauntlet into the ring — spilling third definitions everywhere. In my haste to clean it up, I almost threw in the towel. Ha! Another day perhaps, Trifecta . . . another day perhaps . . .
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Until next time . . . I love you
Hello Dear Readers! This weekend’s Trifecta Writing Challenge is to write 33 words using a picture of a pigeon as a prompt.
Strutner VonPuddlepants had his feathers in a twist.
Turns out Polly cheats . . .
Yesterday — a crow from skid row.
Today — some french fry scavenger.
Luckily Strutner VonPuddlepants knows a cat who owes him a favor.
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Until next time . . . I love you
This weekend’s Trifecta Challenge is to write 33 words about a new beginning.
There’s no way I’m going!
Be patient, Mr. Hines.
I won’t go!
Here’s the bus. Everybody line up! Alphabetical order!
No not me!
Yes, Mr. Hines, you’re between Mr. Himmler and Mr. Hitler.
Until next time . . . I love you
The Earth
was this weekend’s 33-word Trifecta Challenge prompt.
I’ve got this migraine earthquake, Doc.
Hmm. . . your temperature’s high.
I’m itchy too.
Because your scalp’s crawling with people.
What?!? Gross!
I’m sending you home with some prescription mega-hurricane medicated shampoo.
Thanks Doc.
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Until next time . . . I love you
This weekend’s 33-word Trifecta Challenge:
“I feel I’m able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won’t have to live through it, I guess.“- Jodi Picoult
This weekend we’re asking for 33 of your own words that exorcise a demon. One of your own, or one from your imagination. Let it bleed on the page.
Okey Doke here goes:
“We’re going for a jog!” Bill commanded.
“No I hate jogging!” Beelzebub screamed.
“It’ll chase away the demons!”
“I’ll spit fire on you!”
Bill burst into flames.
Beelzebub hated any form of exorcise.
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Until next time . . I love you
