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The Bottle in the Sand By: Carrie Keiser As Orla walked along the beautiful beach with the Irish Sea crashing into the sand on her left near Wicklow, Ireland, contemplating her upcoming wedding to her long-time beau, Killian, a flash of sunlight glinted off something poking out of the sand. The last few weeks had been tough, she knew this was the right decision but her patience was being tested.  She knew she needed to let some things go and have faith in God that all would work out. These and other thoughts were running through her brain as she walked toward the object. She reached down into the sand to discover that it was a half buried bottle. Orla worked diligently to get the bottle out. Finally, it came free. She could see that it was stoppered and it looked like a letter was inside.  Studying the bottle, Orla surmised that it was a very old bottle indeed. She wondered if she opened the bottle, would the the paper be soft and pliable or brittle and fall apart in her hand...

(random picture from the Internet) by: Vanessa Holmquist She was confused. She randomly woke up in this empty apartment. She gets up from ground and looks around room. There was a couch and a tv directly in front of her. She just then realized that there were no windows and just beyond the room. There was only one door. Which she assumed was the exit. Somehow she knew that there was no time to lose she starts to walk towards the front door. With a sudden burst through the door a scary clown walks in to the room. The girl horrified, was frozen in place. "Your not going anywhere" replied the clown. As he turned away from her and threw himself on to the couch. He turns on the TV and starts to laughing maniacally at the contents of the TV. Fearful she stayed huddled against the back wall.  Asking herself why she was in this predicament. Or how she came to be here. Unsure of how long she has been there. It felt like an eternity. She decided do something about it. She observed him ...

  Story Slingers Prompt Your character looks through a telescope. What does he/she see? Daren Flynn SOMETHING GOES MISSING Hello! Come with me. You are invited to put your eye to my special telescope.What's so special about your telescope?, you ask. My telescope is equipped with audio and with a little  tweaking can be focused on a time and place in the not-distance past. I have made the necessary adjustments give you an eye witness view of Wednesday March third 2022. So come close. Now put your eye right up to the special eyepiece and put the earbuds in and looked listen. There how's that? A little fuzzy, you say?  And there seems to be some static? Okay. Just a little fine tuning is all that is needed. There is that better? Good. Now tell me what you see and hear. "I see a house on Oak Street in Spokane, Washington. Wow, now I can see inside.I see several people. It looks like Shawn, the owner of the houses there. He is asking wha...