The first try to pick her up a couple of months ago was a bust. A quick shower at the hotel and a change of clothes, I walked down the street to meet her.

She purred like a little girl as I pushed the button. A virgin with two miles, what more do I need?

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Smart and amazingly cute eyes. My friends gave me hi-5’s.

The dinner was a lot of fun,
Then I knew; she was the one.

A year later I was ready.
A house and a job that paid steady.

So the question I finally popped.
“I am not sure my husband would like that” she dropped.

And yes, it’s one of those old-time jokes that I decided to reinvent.

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I have not called any city my home, Dad was in the bank and I lived all over the country and yada yada yada.

The greatest city…, that is a difficult one. Since its fiction, I picked D.C.

This song is stuck in my head and hence the title and my interpretation of todays 55 and my life; growing up. The 23 is now 26.

We were all set.
A job,
the small home,
the ring I picked up,
her graduating,
it seemed perfect.

As I answered the phone she said, “ Honey, I got an offer in D.C. and I’m moving, Can I stay at your place for a while?”

I said, “Sorry sweety, can’t cheat, not anymore”

PS: This is just fiction.

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Today’s 55 word twist - Not to use the word THE. What I realized was that last weeks 55 worder almost fit this criterion, but when you try hard to not use a word, the task at hand gets even more complicated.

But Anyway, here goes.

Perplexed, she turned, people were looking.
She closed her eyes, recalled everything:
Five cars stolen,
7 people run over and
one cop killed in the chase.

“It was his fault, he did not want to give up. I did my best” she thought as a flash on screen said. “High Score Please Enter Your Name”

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This as many of my posts are, is a true story that happened a little while ago.

I was sharing the house with a couple who owned the house. I have known these people and have lived with them on and off for a while now. At this pont in the story, they had been engaged for sometime and were getting ready to get married.

A cold evening in Fall, I come back home after a tiring day at work. Both my roomies were busy researching some job related stuff, so I slid into my customary seat, the Lazboy with a beer and was channel surfing. Since spacing out was always my way of relaxing, I was having a shiatsu massage, when a squabble between my roomies brought me back to life.
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I checked SM a million times yesterday for the theme, I am happy and really proud that Anna did not let me and the rest of her readers down.

After Shawty got away with something like this, she gave us the building block and here goes todays 55.

She moved in after I had moved out for an education.

The three years made her a part of my family.

Her illegitimate triplets: a non-issue for my conservative parents.

As I walked in, She did not bother me as she would bother the strangers, maybe she knew that I had her gift. Dog Chow.

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Adding a twist, Shawty decided to come up with a theme for today’s nanofiction, here is my second attempt. The theme is Blue and I wanted to put this down, but then, I did give it a stab. Todays first attempt is here.

The beach looked perfect.

White sand, clear blue sky and not many people.

I held my breath, astounded, no words in any language I knew could describe the sight.

“Out of your jean and into your trunks. NOW.” shouted my mind and the salesman went,
“this my friend is the best television in the world”

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Its friday and here is my second shot at Nano fiction.

She looked amazing in red.
There she was, like a roman goddess, topless. No fear, shame or guilt.
The setting sun toyed with her looks. Her man was right there but I did not stop looking.
The light turned green and she took off and my friend says “A convertible Ferrari, now that’s a car.”

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Inspired by Anna, here is my shot at Nano fiction.

The call was to catch up on my best friends life, after a long time. We talk about school, cars and that girl he could not stop raving about, five years ago. “You wanna go meet her?” I ask him and he says “Why don’t you fly here, you could catch up with us.”

Let me know what you think.

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