Prompt Word: Fray Minervie and Chip 13 “What are you doing grandma?” Chip stuck his nose above the edge of the table to try to see better. “I’m patching this skirt of mine,” Minervie answered, pulling thread through the material. “Why?” Chip asked. A slight sigh from Minervie started her saying, “It wore out.” She pulled her work off the table to show him the hole and the patch, “so I’m fixing it....

Prompt Word: Crease Minervie and Chip 12 After drying the sheets in the kitchen near the stove, Minervie carefully folded them into a large basket, moving on to the den where she needed to get some compounding done. A while later, Minervie came back into the kitchen to find Chip sleeping on the basket. She rolled her eyes. While a cute sight to see, it was going to take some effort to get the creases out of the sheets now....

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....