{"id":4139,"date":"2017-02-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:36:38","slug":"prompt-039","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/prompt-039\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt: 039. lemon tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prompt: 039. lemon tree<\/h1>\n

1. Opening the door to a tall, slender woman holding a potted lemon tree was a new experience.<\/h2>\n

A. Opening the door to a tall, slender woman holding a potted lemon tree was a new experience. She took it to be a result of moving to such a hoity-toity neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The last place she’d lived, she was greeted by someone helping themself to several boxes off the moving truck. She’d never gotten any of that stuff back.<\/p>\n

“Hello?” she said.<\/p>\n

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2. There were lemon trees in the backyard and a hammock waiting for someone to settle in for a nap.<\/h2>\n

A. There were lemon trees in the backyard and a hammock waiting for someone to settle in for a nap. It was everything that they’d dreamed of when they’d imagined the house they wanted.<\/p>\n

“What’s wrong with this place?”<\/p>\n

“What?”<\/p>\n

“Well, it’s absolutely perfect and lovely and everything that a person would want in a house. It even has a yard! Why is the price so low?”<\/p>\n

“Uh… I didn’t want to mention anything, but there may have been a murder or two. Or five over the course of two years.”<\/p>\n

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3. He woke tangled in the branches of a lemon tree.<\/h2>\n

A. He woke tangled in the branches of a lemon tree. His mouth tasted heavily of alcohol and his stomach cramped with the need to vomit.<\/p>\n

Where am I?<\/em> he thought, then grimaced at the loudness of his own internal voice. He felt like he was dying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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