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Prompt Word: John First date, everyone is supposed to be on their best behavior, she thought. When he got up, he said, “Imma run to the john.” She thought about it for about 30 seconds … ‘Do I really want to know a guy who calls it a john? Like, toilet, bathroom, lav, even head I can live with. That would at least sound like a Navy man.’ She got up from the table, dropped a twenty dollar bill for whatever trouble this might cause the wait staff, and walked out the door....

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 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....