This week’s #99wordstories prompt is
March 13, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a place where children once played. It can be a field, a playground, or any place that attracted children to play. But now it is empty. Abandoned. Go where the prompt leads!
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From time immemorial, or twenty years last Thursday, which is about the same in Little Tittweaking, the local sprogs and spawn have gambolled and gambled in the scrubby shrubs of the local Rec. Here children gain life skills, that no school teaches, such as an instinct for tyranny and risk-free cheating in its muddy swards. Recently the real derivation of the Rec’s name became clear when a hole, exposing a long buried Viking long boat, complete with a compliment of pillaging ghosts. While adults sought experts in exorcism, the children embraced their guests, adding shoplifting to their skill set.
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My name is Geoff Le Pard. Once I was a lawyer; now I am a writer. I've published several books: a four book series following Harry Spittle as he grows from hapless student to hapless partner in a London law firm; four others in different genres; a book of poetry; four anthologies of short fiction; and a memoir of my mother. I have several more in the pipeline.
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A perfect place to play for those little Little Tittweakers.
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Yep; hopefully they don’t accidentally get buried
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😂
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I hope they didn’t add any of the nastier skills the ghosts were renowned for😱
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Noooo… Little Tittweaking’s ghosts are universally pleasant
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Oh! That’s such a relief to know 😉
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Just a thought should it be a case of unliving history?
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Ah well spotted and a very fair point.
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✅
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Love it Geoff.
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Thanks Di
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A perfect complement to the town of Little Tittweaking!
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It’s not often Little Tittweaking receives compliments
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😉 🙂
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Love it. Reminds me of the birthday party we threw for our granddaughter when everyone took up a shovel and dug in the backyard. Their idea for sure. Beat having to use a party planner.
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Lucky no bodies were found. That’s would curdle the jellies
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I guess they hadn’t dug further enough!
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What happened to pillaging and plundering
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We need more PnP, frankly
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The new social interaction.
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I shall look at a rec with a new eye now.
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Wear galoshes!
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I hate to be the one to ask whether the missing word from the Rec’s name derivation would affect the word count
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Oh… well spotted!!
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I love the way the children use the ghosts.
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Haha, smart children. It is true that children learn a lot from outside play.
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Yes always good to have the little treasures boost their immune systems by eating earth…
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😂
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