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SPEAKING OF PHOTOS!!! Have you photos in your files that you think might make a good prompt? Please send them to me at runtshell@gmail.com. I’m always on the lookout. And sometimes I just…um…er…borrow them from my Facebook friends. 😉 Thank you.

AND FURTHER MORE It has been pointed out to me that this photo is a rerun. https://rochellewisoff.com/2023/06/07/9-june-2023/ So…if you have a story you’d like to repeat from this photo, feel free to do so. 😉 Pobody’s Nerfect. Thank you for your patience. As you can see, I need some new photos. Please and thank you. Shalom, Rochelle. And thank you, Nancy for your vigilance.

PHOTO PROMPT © Lisa Fox

A whimsical prompt this week showing a baby’s colorful walker on the left next to a child’s battery powered truck on the right. They are “parked” in front of a dual smoker. Have fun with this one!

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Genre: Historical Fiction
Word Count: 100

NINE MILES PER HOUR

“She was a thing of beauty,” recalled Mrs. Anne Bush in a 1952 interview. “Sleek black dignity on pneumatic bicycle tires. I loved being my father’s chauffeur to his house calls.

“You should have seen the looks on the examiner’s faces when they issued my beautiful Steam Engineer’s License, Locomobile Class on March 22, 1900.”

Although she was the first woman with a driver’s license, Anne Rainsford French Bush did little to promote women’s rights. She stopped driving in 1903 when she married Mr. Bush.

“Women shouldn’t get soiled by machinery,” he’d say.

She’d quietly nod and say, “Yes, Walter.”

It should read, “first woman IN AMERICA with a driver’s license.” I ran out of words. 😉

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