Today's Writing Prompt: Six Word Saturday

Describe your life in six words.

Six Word Saturdays is a weekly series over at Call Me Cate's funny blog, Show My Face. We do Six Word Saturdays monthly(ish) at The One-Minute Writer, but feel free to participate on your own every week--click the button below for more info! Have fun!

If you respond on your own blog or website, click on the graphic above, and enter your link at ShowMyFace.com!

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: David

It goes by, quicker than planned.

Congratulations on the win, David! There's a lot of truth in those six words. Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

One-Minute Writing of the Week: Ron.

I choose one of the daily winning response from each week and feature it as the One-Minute Writing of the Week. This is for the week of 3/27-4/2.

One-Minute Writing of the Week:
Writer: Ron. (Friday's winner)

Prompt: Skip. Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt "Skip."

Skip was a good old dog, but lately his "old" had gotten the better part of his "good", so we had to take him to the vet and have him put down. Afterward, I went home and did some writing, but I decided not to write a story about how a good old dog had to be put down by the vet. There are way too many of that kind of story out there, and most most of them are schamltzy and badly written. Instead, I wrote a poem about a guy who, instead of taking his dog out for a walk, goes out for ice cream instead. Then I went out and had some ice cream.

Congratulations on another weekly win, Ron.!

Today's Writing Prompt: Rating

Movies are rated "PG" for "Parental Guidance"; video games are rated "M" for "Mature." What is your life rated?

If you respond on your own blog or website (or if you blog about this site), you can put your link here!

If your response on your blog isn't family-friendly in topic or language, please include "M" (for "Mature") after your name (e.g., "Beth's One-Minute Response M.")

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Melinda

My life is rated B for Boring.

Congratulations on the win, Melinda. Hopefully it adds a little bit of excitement to your life.

Today's Writing Prompt: Too

Someone has probably told you, "You're too ___________." How did they complete the sentence?

If you respond on your own blog or website (or if you blog about this site), you can put your link here!

If your response on your blog isn't family-friendly in topic or language, please include "M" (for "Mature") after your name (e.g., "Beth's One-Minute Response M.")

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One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Roderick

I've been told repeatedly over the years that I was too nice. It usually get tossed my way when someone things I should get angry about something. Here is a simple truth though, anger, though satisfying, is mostly pointless. Better to simply act with quiet resolve and be unfailingly polite.

Congratulations on another win, Roderick. It just goes to show...you can fit a lot of wisdom into 60 seconds.

One-Minute Writing of the Week: June Calender

I choose one of the daily winning response from each week and feature it as the One-Minute Writing of the Week. This is for the week of 3/20-3/26.

One-Minute Writing of the Week:
Writer: June Calender (Monday's winner)

Prompt: Spring. Yesterday was the official first day of spring (in the northern hemisphere!) Write a brief letter to Spring.

Hey, come-on, Spring, stop the flirting and teasing. Be a big girl, a few spitting snow flakes aren't putting a damper on my ardor for you. I've seen your promise of crocuses and a few fat buds on the rhodies. This is not time for coyness. I'm ready to strip off my coat an sweather and maybe more for you, my shoes and socks, certainly, let me tickle my toes in your green grasses. Come-on, Love, let me embrace you in all your natural glory.

Congratulations, June Calender! You're welcome to put a One-Minute Writing of the Week Winner button on your blog. Click here if you'd like to snag it.

Today's Writing Prompt: 1,000

It's the 1,000th post on The One-Minute Writer! What would you like 1,000 of?

If you respond on your own blog or website (or if you blog about this site), you can put your link here!

If your response on your blog isn't family-friendly in topic or language, please include "M" (for "Mature") after your name (e.g., "Beth's One-Minute Response M.")

No need to leave a comment after linking.

Has your link been deleted? This tool is not for sharing links to your blog unless your blog post is related to today's prompt, or you've blogged about The One-Minute Writer. I want the links to stay on-topic. Thanks for understanding!


One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Kelsey

1000 IQ points please!!Or hugs. Or dollars. Or kisses. Or 100 dollar bills. Or chocolates. This is the hardest prompt ever!!Hmm....I've got it: 1000 more 1 minute writer prompts. :)

Congratulations on another win, Kelsey! I hope I make it to 2,000 prompts...and that I don't run out of ideas by then!

A Note From C. Beth: New tool to share links

Starting 4/26, I have a new tool you can use to share links when you respond to the prompt on your blog or website! It's an easy-to-use widget called Mister Linky. Looking forward to seeing your links there!

Thank you to MangyCat for giving me the idea!

Has your link been deleted? This tool is not for sharing links to your blog unless your blog post is related to the daily prompt, or you've blogged about The One-Minute Writer. I want the links to stay on-topic. Thanks for understanding!

Today's Writing Prompt: Poison

Write about something that acts as a poison (in a way other than a traditional physical poison.)

If you respond on your own blog or website (or if you blog about this site), you can put your link here!

If your response on your blog isn't family-friendly in topic or language, please include "M" (for "Mature") after your name (e.g., "Beth's One-Minute Response M.")

No need to leave a comment after linking.

Has your link been deleted? This tool is not for sharing links to your blog unless your blog post is related to today's prompt, or you've blogged about The One-Minute Writer. I want the links to stay on-topic. Thanks for understanding!



One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Cyndie Todd

Anger is poison. Sure, we all get angry, but when you hang on to it like a life raft, it festers and then poisons your heart and kills all the love. Get angry, but then get over it. Otherwise, you're poisoning yourself and the rest of us suffer.

Congratulations on the win, Cyndie! I like the imagery of "hang[ing] on to it life a life raft". It's an ironic way to look at anger. Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Sell

Imagine that you'll spend the rest of your life as a salesperson for one type of item. What type of item would you sell?

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: June Calender

I would have a gallery selling art quilts -- it would be a pleasure to be a venue for the barely recognized creative artists who work in the art quilt field. It would be a job that involves educating the public to an area of affordable art they don't yet know much about. If someone gave me a pile of money tomorrow I would begin right away.

Congratulations on another win, June! I do hope you can open such a gallery. I'd like to visit it.

Today's Writing Prompt: Go

What's on your mind? Write about it for 60 seconds. Ready...set...go!

One-Minute Writing of the Week:
Writer: abomo

Writing.

Righting.

Writing what is right.

Righting what I've written.

Writing when the time is right.

Righting when there is no time to write...

peace...

Congratulations on the win, abomo! I love this bit of stream-of-consciousness poetry. Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Warranty

I'm about to send my computer in for some warranty work. What in life do you wish had a warranty?

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Graciegreen

A warranty on my heart would be good...very good. I don't mean on the mechanics of the old ticker, I want unlimited breakage repair.

Congratulations on another win, Graciegreen! If you could sell those warranties, you'd be set for life.

Friday Fiction: Steel

Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt "Steel."

Friday Fiction is your opportunity to write a short (short, short, short) story. Many participants use more than one minute for Friday Fiction prompts, and I open up the One-Minute Writing of the Day contest to entries of various lengths.

Click on the "Friday Fiction" tag beneath the post to see more examples of Friday Fiction writings.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: beverleym
Walls of steel have been built around her heart. A person can be hurt, betrayed, dishonored only so many times before the walls are built and set firmly in place.

She keeps the smile on her pretty face. To glance at her you'd never know the secrets she hides, but look closely. Those green eyes go deeper than you think. Look deep enough and you can see the pain behind the pleasant demeanor. She's gotten good over the years. She's friendly, professional, successful. She wears the mask well.

Follow her home one night and what will you find? Will you see her cozied up next to a good-looking man? Or maybe huddled over a popcorn bowl, watching a "chick-flick" with a girlfriend? You'd imagine her rushing home, shedding her work clothes to get ready for a night on the town. But instead what you find is a beautiful woman with a bottle of wine as her only company, drowning out the pain of solitude so she can face another day.

Congratulations on another win, beverleym! I appreciate this touching little bit of fiction.

A Note From C. Beth: Book review

A note from C. Beth:

Recently BlogHer (who hosts the ads on my blogs) sent me an email. They were offering a free book and a bit of compensation for bloggers who wanted to read and review the book. Wait a minute...I like to read and write anyway, and I was being offered money to do both of those things? With fingers trembling from anticipation (okay, maybe that's overstating it a bit), I clicked on the link and got my name on the list before it filled up.

When the book, Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, came in the mail, I saw this text on the bottom of the cover:

"ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS --NOT FOR SALE"

And inside there were more fun things like "Dedication to come" and "UNREVISED AND UNPUBLISHED PROOFS. CONFIDENTIAL." I will readily admit, I geeked out seeing all this. I've certainly never gotten an advance proof of a book before, and somehow it seemed so much cooler than a regular book. Then BlogHer asked us to be hush-hush about the reviews, so I felt even more like a superhero-private eye-book reviewer!

Caleb's Crossing is being released May 3. You can pre-order it on Amazon here, or for the Kindle here.

And I'd love it if you'd read my review on BlogHer. (I'd love it even more if you'd give me some comment love while you're there!) I'm currently reading another book for the program--I'm so excited to be part of it!

Today's Writing Prompt: Trash/Treasure

It's been said, "One person's trash is another person's treasure." Write about an item you'd treasure though others might consider it trash.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Lethologica

It was Fall Cleanup, and it sat toppled over waiting for me to find it on the corner. I hit the brakes and drove in reverse a half of block and much to my delight it was in fair shape! I quickly called my sister-in-law who has a truck and stood gaurd until she got there. With nearly as much excitement as me, we loaded this shabby chic garden bench in the truck and took it to my home. After placing it in the yard we sat down on it for a rest and she informed me, "If you ever get rid of this, I want it!"

Congratulations on the win, Lethologica! This is a charming story, and I hope you're still enjoying that bench! Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Judge

In what situation do you find yourself becoming the most judgmental? Is it justified?

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Divenita

I would be judgemental if i had to go out with people with moustache.

It really shrieks me out. :P. they are usually strict and most of the times, it was right. I am happy with people who do not have a moustache.
It is more fun that way!

Congratulations on another win, Divenita! Your answer was memorable and fun.

Today's Writing Prompt: Fail

Write about a failure you experienced that ended up being a positive thing.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: ryconic

Clarify fail? When one job didn't work out, another did and I was able to meet and create a friendship with a legendary actor who brought water to elephants, listen to an iconic musician create huckleberry music and get to know a "graceful" prince. Let us open our mind to a new idea. I did. I will.

Congratulations on the win, ryconic! That definitely feels like a worthwhile "failure." Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Change

Write about one way you haven't changed since you were 13 years old.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Roderick

When I was thirteen, if I had half a chance I would sneak off to someplace quiet and read. I am fifty now and, if I have half a chance, I sneak off someplace quiet and read!

Congratulations on another win, Roderick! I think this is something many One-Minute Writers can relate to!

Today's Writing Prompt: Adventure

What is the most adventurous thing you've ever done?

One-Minute Writing of the Week:
Writer: Lorraina

On a helicopter ride in Hawaii; the pilot was high as a kite. I heard the radio warning of high winds and i saw all the other copters turn back. The pilot asked me if i wanted to go into the keyhole...i said yes, not even knowing what a keyhole was. It was a crevass between two cliffs, the copter blades almost touching the cliff sides. Down we went twirled around in the wind and came back up to enjoy several more adventures in beautiful blue Hawaii.

Congratulations on another win, Lorraina! I'm glad you lived to tell about that thrilling experience!

Today's Writing Prompt: Ring

Write about something that could used instead of a wedding ring as a symbol of love and devotion.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Mary from the Prairie

Two colors of sand, each color representing one partner, both poured into a common vessel. The symbolism is that the two partners' lives are intermingled to become one. If the two were to become separated, it is painstakingly difficult to fully make the two-become-one into two totally and completely individual entities again. There is always at least a tiny grain of the other that will remain with you.

Congratulations on another win, Mary! I love this idea!

Friday Fiction: Last breath

Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt "Last breath."

Friday Fiction is your opportunity to write a short (short, short, short) story. Many participants use more than one minute for Friday Fiction prompts, and I open up the One-Minute Writing of the Day contest to entries of various lengths.

Click on the "Friday Fiction" tag beneath the post to see more examples of Friday Fiction writings.

Thank you to Jill Jensen for suggesting this prompt (via The One-Minute Writer's Facebook page!)

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: patagoniantruthfish

It starts with a sound and a stabbing pain:
ba...
A white flash, a catching of the breath. A half formed thought.
What is the difference between 21 and 42?
A heartbeat. A blink.
What is the anatomy of a heartbeat?
Systole, diastole. Ba...dump. In lock step. Heel on toe. Butter on bread.
What is the anatomy of a heart atack?
Blockage, death. Paralysis... necrosis.
I always thought there would be more. How many have I had?
Heartbeats in 21 years. Blinks in 42.
Time to self medicate. People save themselves all the time. Think.
There was a guy who saved himself...
He was trapped under a rock, halfway up a mountain. He cut off his own arm with a pen knife.
It took days.
There was another guy who saved himself...
He was choking. He gave himself a tracheotomy.
It took minutes.
How much time do I have?
Time to dial 1-1-...
Time to cut the vacuum cleaner cord and defibrillate myself?
A chamber opens. A void, a vacuum. Drawing in fluid.
Anatomy of blood: platelets, plasma, antibodies.
A chamber closes. Pressure, constriction. Forcing fluid out.
I felt this before. For years. I thought it was cramp, fatigue, poor posture, gastric ulcer.
Warning signs. The time it takes to save myself: I already had it. It's gone.
Six hundred and sixty two million. Two hundred and twenty million.

Congratulations on another win, patagoniantruthfish! What a haunting perspective of a heart attack.

Today's Writing Prompt: Peace

Using a metaphor, describe what peace is.

One-Minute Writing of the Day
Writer: June Calender

A trickle in a meadow becomes a tiny stream, becomes a creek, finds a river and joins it, flows on, widening, welcomes other streams to join it, dashes over boulders, bounds over precipices, broadens and finally joins the ocean. This is conveyed in sound in Smetana's Muldou. This is nature pure and simple. This is peace.

Congratulations on another win, June! The Muldou (or Moldau, or whatever spelling you prefer!) is one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard. I fell in love with it in high school, and I need to listen to it again after reading your description.

Today's Writing Prompt: Relief

An old commercial said that relief was spelled "R-O-L-A-I-D-S." (Rolaids is an antacid brand.)

How do you spell relief?

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Curly-T

At this point - L - A - B - O - R and D - E - L - I - V - E - R - Y

Just 4 days from my due date, I can't wait to meet my new little boy. Despite the lack of sleep that will come with him, I want to be done!

Congratulations on the win, Curly-T, but a much BIGGER congratulations on baby #3!!

One-Minute Writing of the Week: beverleym

I choose one of the daily winning response from each week and feature it as the One-Minute Writing of the Week. This is for the week of 3/13-3/19.

One-Minute Writing of the Week:
Writer: beverleym (Tuesday's winner)

Prompt: Water. Write about a childhood memory you have that involves water.

The ocean crashes onto the shore. Waves tumbling and roaring....but beyond the crashing waves I bob in the swells. The water, up to my chin, gently rocking me. Softly my toes touch the sandy bottom...bounce, bounce as the seaweed swishes around me. Gently bounce.

Congratulations, beverleym! You're welcome to put a One-Minute Writing of the Week Winner button on your blog. Click here if you'd like to snag it.

Today's Writing Prompt: Summit

What summit have you reached? Toward what summit are you still climbing?

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Liz Flynn

I'm always working to become a better teacher, to reach more students, to evaluate and then try to fulfill their needs. The difficulty with a job like this is that it's hard to see the summit, sometimes even hard to know exactly where I'm going!

Congratulations on the win, Liz! I'm thankful for teachers like you that seek the summit even when the path isn't clear! Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Animal

I just finished the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. No major spoilers, but it inspired this prompt:

If a certain animal species is secretly smarter than humans, what species is it? And what do you think they are thinking when they look at us?

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Cathaber

The cat has got it made when she comes to live with us - she winds round our legs and into our hearts, getting food and cuddles when she wants them, and her freedom when she prefers that. Is that or is that not smart?

Congratulations on another win, Cathaber! I think you proved it, housecats rule the world (or at least they each rule their own little world!)

Today's Writing Prompt: Weird

Would you prefer to be ignored, or to be seen as weird? Which happens to you more often?

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: davidseven

I am weird.

But I'm saving up to be eccentric.

Congratulations on another win, David! Thanks for making me laugh.

One-Minute Writing of the Week: Graciegreen

I choose one of the daily winning response from each week and feature it as the One-Minute Writing of the Week. This is for the week of 3/6-3/12.

One-Minute Writing of the Week:
Writer: Graciegreen (Monday's winner)

Prompt: Passion. Write about something you used to have a passion for, but no longer do.

When I was younger, before husband and children laundry and housework I painted. My pictures were of old people with character and of emaciated women, so popular in the 60's. I painted on canvas, wood, doors, metal with dark colors and passion...

Congratulations, Graciegreen! You're welcome to put a One-Minute Writing of the Week Winner button on your blog. Click here if you'd like to snag it.

Friday...Oops, Saturday...Fiction: Battery

Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt "Battery."

Friday Fiction is your opportunity to write a short (short, short, short) story. Many participants use more than one minute for Friday Fiction prompts, and I open up the One-Minute Writing of the Day contest to entries of various lengths.

Click on the "Friday Fiction" tag beneath the post to see more examples of Friday Fiction writings.

And thank you to those of you who reminded me yesterday about Friday Fiction! Hope you don't mind doing it a day late.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Heather

It was 2047 and I was no longer alone. There were others. Not just one or two, but many. I'd lost count of the mismanaged cases that found themselves plastered across the front pages of newspapers. "Man Pirouettes Through Traffic." "Missing Wealthy Woman Found Living Among The Poor." "Five Year Old Siblings Beg For Jail Time." I smiled a sad smile.

My face once graced the front of the newspaper as well. I don't remember the details. None of us ever do. We are just as mystified as everyone else about our behavior. My story was one of repeated acts of battery. I was a teenager. Quiet. Received good grades and aspired to be a great musician. I was taking a late 20th century music class and had chosen a band named Metallica as the theme for my research paper. I listened to the music constantly. Partly I had to. I needed to understand the lyrics and the lead singer wasn't always easy to understand.

One day, I was listening to their album Master of Puppets while walking to the library. Their song battery came on and I heard a loud pop during the slow introduction. I remember looking around to see where the noise came from and being surprised that no one else seemed to be concerned. I didn't feel all that concerned myself. With a shrug of my shoulders, I pushed through the library doors. The introduction ended and the hard hitting, heavier beats surged through the headphones. I felt my heart and thoughts begin to race.

The next thing I clearly remember is sitting in the back of a police car, hands cuffed behind me. A police officer was holding my I-POD 7000Z and telling another uniformed man about the trashed library and injured people left behind. "Oh my God," I said in response to what I was hearing, "Did you catch the person who did it?" I knew by their astonished faces that something was seriously wrong.

In court, my defense was "the music made me do it." I was scoffed at. It was thought to be a ridiculous notion. Over time, it has come to light that I was correct. At least somewhat. Us. The 'we' that slip through the cracks and end up as front page news. We are affected by music, doing as it tells us. At least, until it is figured out and we are put on a steady diet of non-influential music with a court order to keep it with us at all times.

Smiling another sad smile, I replace my headphones before entering the store. Grocery shopping to Bach is how I spend my Saturday afternoons now. Dreams of being a recognized musician died the day I was diagnosed. I'll grab a newspaper on the way out. That's what I do on a Saturday night.

Congratulations on another win, Heather! I was really taken in by your story!

Today's Writing Prompt: Crash

Write about a crash you've experienced.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Heather
I know it sounds like fiction, but this really did happen.
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Silently, I watched as the chaffs of tall grasses brushed over the window. When the car stopped, I undid my seatbelt, keeping my hand on the ceiling to protect myself from falling too hard on my head. Somewhere, I knew my fish lay dying. As I crawled out of the car window I had rolled down earlier, I was greeted by the astonished gasps of witnesses. No one believed I could have survived.

The nurse attended to my small cuts and bruises. The pastor said a prayer. The police officer called in the license plate of the truck that had continued it's dangerous dance down the highway. The comedian said I was lucky a funeral director had not been in the line of cars behind me. I started to cry. He'd stepped on my fish.

Congratulations, Heather! I'm sorry you had to endure such an accident, but I really liked your description of it!

Today's Writing Prompt: Ask

What are you good at asking for?

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Ron.

World Peace. I put it on every shopping list, letters to Santa Claus, prayer flags, prayer wheels, prayer cards, and frankly, sometimes when the server at the restaurant asks, "Will there be anything else," I embarrass my beloved Sandra by ordering up a big ol' bowlfull of World Peace.

Hey, ya don't get whatcha don't ask for, eh?

Congratulations on another win, Ron.! I'd like to se that request granted.

Today's Writing Prompt: Move

Write about a move you've made, or are planning to make.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Marsha

In my mind, I'm always moving... big bold moves, life changing moves but in the end, I find the only move I ever really make is from the recliner in my den to the chair at my computer desk.

Congratulations on the win, Marsha! I really like the contrast between your mind and your reality. Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Harder/easier

Write about something you did (or attempted) that was either a lot harder or a lot easier than you expected.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Allison B

Strawberries. A friend gave me some strawberry plants but I left them unplanted longer than I should have. I figured they were goners. But I planted them anyways. Why not? And you know what? They're growing and blooming! I thought growing something would be harder than that it but it was definitely easier :)

Congratulations on the win, Allison B! I bet you're enjoying some delicious strawberries now! Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Problem

Write about a problem you recently solved.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Jenn M.

Two hundred chattering voices filled the hall.
I fly to the stage, to the back, to the stage, to the back, agonizing over every detail before the event starts.
"You can't find your seat? Follow me!"
"Trouble walking to the buffet? I'll dish your entree!"
"Name not on the list? It's okay, I know you're VIP!"
Taking Monday off? A necessity.

Congratulations on the win, Jenn M.! Hope you have a day off today! Feel free to put a One-Minute Writer WINNER! button on your blog.

Today's Writing Prompt: Space

What is your personal definition of personal space?

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Sophie

personal space was never truly a physical thing
either I'm alone
or I'm not
but your intent is what crowds me.
not the man with his head in the clouds pressed against me on the bench seat of a crowded bus
not the woman who pats my back in apology when she almost bowls me over
but your hovering
reaching
groping
breathing
thick and viscous necessity to stand nearly on the same spot as I
every effort spent to make it impossible to deny you
but you were not invited.
this is my space.

Congratulations on another win, Sophie! You really hit on the emotional side of personal space.

Today's Writing Prompt: Flying pigs

You've probably heard the phrase "when pigs fly," as in, "Yeah, I'll give up chocolate when pigs fly."

Come up with another phrase that has the same meaning.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Mary from the Prairie

Mary's answer was in multiple comments, as follows:

(Looking at my kitchen) When the sink is shiny, the floors are clean enough to eat off of, and I pick up a dinner plate, declaring, "I can see myself!"

When cooking a meal that does not involve the microwave oven ceases to be "science fiction"

When Visa and Mastercard both lose my phone number!

When C.Beth shuts down One Minute Writer

When someone makes me stop flooding the comments section

Congratulations on another win, Mary! I love your creativity and enthusiasm!

Friday Fiction: Skip

Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt "Skip."

Friday Fiction is your opportunity to write a short (short, short, short) story. Many participants use more than one minute for Friday Fiction prompts, and I open up the One-Minute Writing of the Day contest to entries of various lengths.

Click on the "Friday Fiction" tag beneath the post to see more examples of Friday Fiction writings.

One-Minute Writing of the Day:
Writer: Ron.

Skip was a good old dog, but lately his "old" had gotten the better part of his "good", so we had to take him to the vet and have him put down. Afterward, I went home and did some writing, but I decided not to write a story about how a good old dog had to be put down by the vet. There are way too many of that kind of story out there, and most most of them are schamltzy and badly written. Instead, I wrote a poem about a guy who, instead of taking his dog out for a walk, goes out for ice cream instead. Then I went out and had some ice cream.

Congratulations on another win, Ron.! I'm can't explain why, but I love this.