Results - Week 17/Sudden Death Write Off

[clauderainsrm]

The results were set. Until they weren't. The person who was behind caught up in the last hour, and then went ahead by one vote with about a minute left. Shocking ending!!!

By the time I hit "close poll", one more vote had appeared, to tie it back up again.

Which just goes to show, our audience loves the drama. :D

Or likes torturing you (maybe me too) and wants you to write more!

Because for two of you, that is what is about to happen!

We have another Open Topic for the Sudden Death Write Off, this time between

flipflop_diva 
and
littlebitofearth 

You have until Thursday, December 12th at 9pm ET to link your entries back to this thread. (in the indicated space below)

Have fun!!

Prompt - Week 18

[clauderainsrm]

 I'm not sure where this one came from.  I just googled it, and it came up as a "French proverb", but only when I put the quotes around it. 

It's a cliche, but aren't most things?  ;) 

It's definitely true for this competition though. There is only one path forward - and this is it:

Only those who do nothing never fail


The deadline to link your entries back to this thread is Sunday, December 15th at 7pm ET. 

Have fun!

Green Room - Week 18 - Day 1

[clauderainsrm]

 The results are in from last week, and shocker, it's another Write Off!! therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1177850.html

The new topic is also up   therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1177901.html


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My Aunt died on Saturday. I found out this morning. We WERE NOT close.  There is no "loss" here, except the potential for what could have been. 
She was a spiteful person who alienated her entire extended family (all but her son and one of the granddaughters, and even she didn't like her very much most of the time) 

My Mom is her youngest sister (the baby of the family) and didn't find out until last night when she was reading Facebook. (the granddaughter posted about it) 

But it got me thinking - at one point she and my Mom WERE close. Which is the true tragedy. Because that was the sister that my Mom traveled with on her first Florida trip. That was the trip they first went to Disney, which would lead ME to go to Disney a few years later, and fall in love with it. 
It would eventually lead my Mom to move to Florida.  Without my Aunt, who no one particularly liked for the second half of her life, I wouldn't be where I am. I probably would not be WHO I am.  (so if you want to blame someone for it, blame her! :D) It's interesting how those forces work behind the scenes, those little moments that lead up to creating a whole new person...