Prompt Word: Stash Minervie and Chip 2 “What are you doing in there?” Minervie looked angry. “I’m looking for a spoon,” said her young grandson. “The spoons are in this drawer, that one is not somewhere you should be. Don’t mess with my stash.” Young Chip stared hard at Minervie with a confused look, “uh, Grandma, your ‘stache is not in a drawer, it’s under your nose like always.” Minervie turned pale, then red, and Chip knew he was in deep trouble but didn’t understand why....

Prompt Word: Weed Minervie and Chip 1 “Hey! Get your dirty hands off of me.” “I’m sorry, but grandma told me I had to pull you out of the garden.” “I’m not some common weed, I’m a sentient being!” “Please stop screaming, you might kill the neighbors. Anyway, I’m much more scared of grandma than I am of you,” said the boy as he put the Mandrake into a silent bag....

Prompt Word: Joint Penny Collins, Business Manager 1 Trying too hard to sound authoritative, the new business manager concluded her presentation, “This is why I am proposing that this be done as an amalgamation between our companies.” There was some murmuring around the board room. “Ms. Collins, I appreciate the proposal, and I see that you’ve thought this through, but for all of our sakes, please put away the thesaurus. You are talking about a joint venture....

Prompt Word: Heroine “I’m just a person, like any other,” she said uncomfortably. “You are a heroine, like in the stories,” said the young man. “You are mistaken, I’m afraid. What I did is I showed up, I took a long time to assess how I might actually be of help, and then I did the bare minimum to make sure this didn’t become a disaster. Anybody would do that,” she said....