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Bookworm

She looked over the top of her glasses, perched on the end of her nose. There he was standing in front of French Literature. Her heart skipped remembering the last time he had stopped by the desk for assistance.

Sighing, she turned her attention back to cataloging the pile of books that were in front of her. Busying herself she hadn’t noticed he’d moved across the library floor and was now standing in front of her.

“You look as if you need a break.” he said in a bright, cheerful manner.

Startled she dropped the book she was holding.

“Excuse me?” she said looking up smiling as she realized it was him

“Would you like to have lunch with me?” he asked.

“Yes!” she answered, maybe too quickly.

“Great!“ he said. “Oh, and bring no book, for this one day we’ll give to idleness.”.

Ingrid is hosting Monday Prosery at D’Verse Poets and has prompted us with the line: “And bring no book, for this one day we’ll give to idleness.” from from Wordsworth’s ‘Lines Written at a small distance from my House…‘ We are to use the line in our piece of Flash Fiction (Prosery). The rule is that Prosery should be no more than 144 words, excluding the title.

Originally the brain child of A Guy Called Bloke , I thank Kristian from Tales from the Mind of Kristian for inviting me to participate in another 3-2-1 Challenge. Please check out his site and read some super short stories and poems.

The Rules of the Challenge are as follows:

Thank the Selector

Post 2 quotes for the dedicated Topic of the Day.

Select 3 bloggers to take part in ‘3.2.1 Quote Me!’

Just a few days ago, July 17, was World Emoji Day so today’s 3-2-1 Challenge Word “Expression” was timely. Love them or hate them, we all seem to use them!

When we used to write real letters, they were heartfelt and our words were used wisely so there was no misunderstanding. We cherished them, reread them, tied them in ribbons and saved them in shoeboxes. I still have some of mine and spent an hour a few weeks ago going through them again. It made for a very special moment bringing back lots of memories.

These days, unfortunately, we rarely write letters on paper. We squash our words into emails, texts and twitter, limiting what we actually want to say. Just to be sure we don’t upset, offend or hurt the recipient of the literary masterpiece, we add emojis here and there to express ourselves so they will hopefully understand our social media shorthand. I am as guilty of it as anyone else but I think it’s really quite 😥.

Being a tactile person I have always enjoyed paper, books, written materials, that I can touch and smell, and loved writing and receiving letters. Fortunately I still can do that. I hope they don’t disappear too soon!

Here are a couple of expressions, not emojis, that amuse me and I share them with you.