Weekend Writing Warriors #amwriting #amjoy

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to write!  Sign up on the website:Wewriwa.com and share an 8 to 10 sentence snippet of your writing on Sunday.

No one likes it when their family life changes.  This is particularly hard for the Radtke's.  A troublesome girl named Tracey enters their lives and the children are an endless journey to make sure this girl doesn't get into any further trouble or cause their parents to lose their fostering license.  These are snippets from my second novella in the series, "Oh Tracey."

Last week's entry

"In what scenario would Tracey have had that could lead her to having that many ID’s?" Zion asked.

"I don’t know, maybe her mom used to work at a Drivers license station."

"Yeah, that’s it, " said Zion.  It said in Tracey’s journal that her mom had several odd jobs. Even it said she worked at the YMCA, you know how people are always handing over their ID’s and then forgetting them. She had probably collected a dozen or so of them from the lost and found."

I thought about my own dad taking us to the Civic center and taking out his ID. The attendant looking down on us from his place at the counter and saying to me, And where’s your ID missy?

This week's entry
I’m too young to have an ID, I had joked with at him at the time and threw him one of my dazzling smiles. “Or, or or..” I said to Zion,"maybe her Mom used to work at a liquor store. Yeah, that’s it, maybe her Mom took the ID’s instead of giving them back."
“Do you think that her mother is really that malicious that she wouldn’t try and return them?”
"Who knows. People have their collections. Don’t you have a collection of Cracker Jack prizes in a box in your dresser?

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Sunday Post #amwriting #amjoy

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted  @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things  received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme

LOOKING FORWARD TO OCTOBER

This Thursday I had a great time at Nautilus Theater.  There was a Halloween Performance and the actors were sneaking behind the audience and marching and making loud noises.  The performance was basically about a giant who snatches humans and attaches them to his back to make them servants-FOREVER!

How scary! And the sounds effects, along with busting balloons and flying benches was quite frightening.  In fact, I've been to many theaters across Minnesota- but this is the first time I've been scared.  It's a rare treat because I don't know if I'll make it to a haunted house this year on account that October is nearly over and a family member has to have ACL surgery.

Readers, if you want to comment-do so at the bottom of this post.

CURRENTLY

Reading: One Small Thing by Erin Watt, Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty,

Listening:Lost for Words by St. Aubyn, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, The Emperor of Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, 

Watching: Japanese Movies

Weekend Writing Warriors #8Sunday

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to write!  Sign up on the website:Wewriwa.com and share an 8 to 10 sentence snippet of your writing on Sunday.

No one likes it when their family life changes.  This is particularly hard for the Radtke's.  A troublesome girl named Tracey enters their lives and the children are an endless journey to make sure this girl doesn't get into any further trouble or cause their parents to lose their fostering license.  These are snippets from my second novella in the series, "Oh Tracey."

Previous entry

After reading what I had.  I came to the decision that Zion and I would just have to explore Tracey's purse, the one we received from the owner of Shinder's hobby store who said Tracey left it at the mall by mistake.

I went to get the purse where I hid it in my backpack and flipped the purse over.  I didn’t regret it. Out poured about twenty ID’s, all with faces of strangers looking back at me as if to say, 'yes, you found us, now what?'

Later in the evening, Zion and I had to do some mission work at the church.  I picked up a rake and raked as fast I could while talking to Zion. "Look, those Id’s could have came from anywhere. They may have just been a sort of collection."

This week's entry

"In what scenario would Tracey have had that could lead her to having that many ID’s?" Zion asked.

"I don’t know, maybe her mom used to work at a Drivers license station."

"Yeah, that’s it, " said Zion.  It said in Tracey’s journal that her mom had several odd jobs. Even it said she worked at the YMCA, you know how people are always handing over their ID’s and then forgetting them. She had probably collected a dozen or so of them from the lost and found."

I thought about my own dad taking us to the Civic center and taking out his ID. The attendant looking down on us from his place at the counter and saying to me, 'And where’s your ID missy?'

Come see Impossible Salt's Heartless @NautilusMT

Impossible Salt's Heartless

Public

 · Hosted by Impossible Salt

Details

Nautilus Music-Theater

308 Prince St, Ste 190, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101 

Tickets app.arts-people.com

Oct 20,26,27 8pm-9pm

What could cause a creature as fearsome as a giant to remove his own heart from his body?
What becomes of him without his heart? And what becomes of his heart without him?

These questions inspire Impossible Salt’s beautiful and haunting exploration of this ancient tale, known as “The Troll With No Heart in His Body” in Norway, “Koschei the Immortal” in Russia, “Punchkin the Magician” in India, and by still other names in Scotland, Hungary, and elsewhere. Even (or perhaps especially) in the United States in 2018, the specter of a monster made invulnerable by his own unthinkable actions continues to captivate us, and demands our attention.

Revived for the Halloween season, HEARTLESS is Impossible Salt’s 

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Sunday Post #amwriting #amjoy

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted  @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things  received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme

LOOKING FORWARD TO October

This week I've been on this audio book binge, searching and listening like crazy.  It was my birthday last Sunday so I guess I deserve to binge a bit.  It started all started with Haruki Murakami's, Sputnik Sweetheart and then Janet Evanovich.  Then I perused my library for humorous audio books and came across Lorrie Moore and Timothy Hallinan's work.  I listened to this one book, Act of God, by Jill Ciment and it that had to do with this character who was an actress and she lost her apartment to mushrooms and mold and people wearing Hazmat suits had to come and clear it out.  She also had a homeless woman sleeping in her tiny closet and the concept for the novel was quite intriguing.  
Finally, yesterday I started listening to The Ocean at the End of the Land by Neil Gaiman. Now, I've tried to read a lot of Gaiman's work but this is the first one I really liked. His work is poetic and it's got this rhythm and tone that no one could ever mimic.

Readers, if you want to comment-do so at the bottom of this post.

CURRENTLY

Reading: Every Story is a Ghost story: The Life of David Foster Wallace, Bark by Lorrie Moore, King Maybe by Timothy Hallinan, Consumed by David Cronenberg, Fishbowl by Bradley Somer, This is going to Hurt by

Adam Kay

Watching:  Chinese Movie:Them and Us

ON THE BLOG

Up Coming: Lots of interviews with screenwriters and musicians in October.  Stay tuned.

Hoping to also start a podcast.