“I am loving everything about this homeschooling, Liz—mostly the fact that it is at your home and your husband is the teacher and that after school pick up includes a patio drink with you.”
“I need a drink after the shock of coming home to my front lawn all torn up; apparently our pupils are planning a butterfly garden as a part of their studies of migration. Oh, and look, here comes a scruffy refugee now on his migratory route through the shrubbery.”
“Um, so the border’s still open; I thought Tommy’s father was going to close it.”
“Not yet, so there’s still hope for our little emigrant.”
“Yes, let’s hope, for though it’s hard to believe, even an ungainly caterpillar has wings to fly.”
The word I heard from Denise at GirlieOntheEdge was “migration”. Then she said, just write Six Sentences. Just six! The prompt led me to write way more than that but here are just six, a sort of a snapshot from a Marlie story in the works. Recall that Marlie and her friend Sofie are getting homeschooled by her work-at-home dad. See the related stories below for more Marlie.
A lovely story, Miss D.
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Thank you Miss Robbie.
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What a delightful take on the given prompt.
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Thank you, I’m glad if it works. The story I was writing veered to get to six coherent sentences. These are now familiar characters to me so I also have to be careful that they do indeed stand on their own when I use them to get a flash.
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I love homeschooling. I love caterpillars. I love butterflies. I love your story. Say no more. That’s my six sentences.
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I love these characters, and am glad they helped me with another Six. Thank you for coming by. I sure appreciate these six sentences of yours.
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🙂
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Awww… I loved the ending 🙂
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Thanks. They’ve not given up on the little neighbor boy.
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What a sweet six. I hope that they all have a lovely time.
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They will! Thank you.
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Good six. This was a difficult prompt for me. Also, I wish we had home schooled!
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Thanks. I’ve been beginning to wonder how the dad is managing to keep up with his business with all that his two pupils have going on. But he is having fun.
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Nice story about a happy, though inconvenient, moment in childhood
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Thanks.
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I find the concept of home schooling as difficult to appreciate as the idea of having two dogs (at the same time).
Surely, for the teacher, the task must be so much more difficult than traditional schooling. Of course, this is from one with no experience in either.
Someone I know, not a writer, offered a measure of a good book as being one that has characters with whom you enjoy spending time.
Fun Six
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I’ve been a huge fan of the main character and her buddies and am happy to see her parents emerge and a new friend as well. They all seem to be good sports so I’m sure everything will work out. I look forward to spending more time with this lot.
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Perfect story for this SSS cue.
I imagine Marlie and Sofie are loving these science units.
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Yes, they are excited to plant the butterfly garden. They have other projects going on too, all because Denise said “migration”.
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Well, did I not hit the “post comment” button the other night?!
I’ve enjoyed these characters and smiled at the opening for surely that is a bonus that “after school pick up includes a patio drink…” I’m sure there is many a parent irl that would like that perk, lol
Sorry I’m late!
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I appreciate the lost comment, and that you brought it back. Thank you. Yes, Marlie and her family saved my bacon. Wasn’t sure I had a story, then used them. Thanks for the prompt and all the rest!
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