Prompt Word: Lip Minervie and Chip 11 Chip overheard Minervie in the other room, “There’s a chip on the lip,” she’d said to herself. Chip wandered into the den where Minervie was, “Grandma, I’m hungry. Where are the chips?” “Chip, no. This tea cup got a chip at the top of it, up here is called the lip. If you are hungry, I have a carrot.” “Nevermind, I’m not hungry afterall,” Chip backed away from the offer of a vegetable....

Prompt Word: Sanction Penny Collins, Business Manager 2 “I’m here to keep the business moving, and expand it where I can,” Penny Collins, the new Business Manager stated firmly. “You are here because the owner’s nephew blew it, and the company faced both public embarrassment as well as financial sanction,” the grizzled floor supervisor Zhang quipped. “That is probably why my current position opened up, but they hired me for it, not you,” she she said coldly....

Prompt Word: Weather Minervie and Chip 10 Mr. Cangamelia opened his front door, “Oh, Hi Minervie. Come in, come in. Where’s the little one?” He said that last bit with a little bit of stress. Minervie made no move from the front porch, “I don’t have time for weather talk today, I just came here to hand you over a new … medicine.” She pulled a corked bottle from her satchel, and held it out, but not too far....

Prompt Word: Fast Minervie and Chip 9 The unusually tall, gossamer wight of a woman sat at Minervie’s kitchen table with a steaming teacup in front of her. “Before you start, have you been to see Mindy yet?” Minervie asked. Barbera, the Banshee (but never say it like that, she abhores the alliteration) replied, “No, she’s my next stop.” “Oh, wonderful, I’ll invite her over, it should save us all some time, no?...