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PHOTO PROMPT © Lori Wilson
The photo is of a storefront with mannequins in the window. The building architecture is old stone with filigree trim on the awnings. At the top of the building it has 1888 which I imagine is the year it was built. Bubbles float in colorful array across the scene.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Word Count: 100
DUBBLE BUBBLE
At twenty-three, Walter Diemer, an accountant, had a flair for experimentation. For months he’d been working on a chewy formula, adding a pinch of this and a dash of that.
“Now for the moment of truth,” he told his Fleer coworker, popping a flavorful wad into his mouth.
Walter rolled it around until it felt right. He stretched it on his tongue and blew a breath of air into it. A rosy balloon emerged from his lips. It popped and covered his cheeks.
Triumphantly, he stuffed the pink substance back into his mouth and exclaimed. “I dub thee bubble gum.”
Walter in 1928
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