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PHOTO PROMPT @ Jan Wayne Fields
Genre: Historical Fiction
Word Count: 100
HEY! HEY! MERCY, WOMAN!
“I got a boy to raise. I can’t afford to lose this job.” Bette ripped the document from the IBM electric. The bank called it progress, she called it futile. “Doggone unerasable ink. Someone should invent…hmm.”
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“Is that paint in the blender?” asked 12-year-old Michael.
Bette took a bottle of the white stuff to work with a small paintbrush. Before she knew it, her coworkers clamored for a bottle. She called her lucrative invention “Mistake-Out.”
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“My mom was a dynamo. She built the Liquid Paper Corporation from nothing.” Monkee Michael Nesmith drawled. “All I did was sing and write songs.”
and just for fun…one of the songs Mike Nesmith wrote
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 