Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Blind

Prompt for Week #116 December 14, 2024 to December 20, 2024

Title: Sight Unseen

Six Words: Feeling your presence doesn’t require vision.

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Blind” and here are the prompt details:


Welcome to Week #116 of the Saturday Six Word Story PromptClick here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week #116 (Dec 14, 2024 – Dec 20, 2024)

Blind

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

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Another great theme from Shweta, for this week’s six word story prompt! My contribution is about someone I care for and love very much. I can feel them around me; their entire presence is so palpable and evident, I do not need to see them for them to be near. Let that marinate for a bit, you’ll get it.

Care to join in for this week’s six word story prompt, too?!

Séduire Fans Photo Collage #1

The Lovely Ones who purchased their copy of Séduire, Part I. Photo Collage Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt. Individual photos taken by the beautiful ones holding up their copy.

Séduire is a collection of serial fiction tales and flash fiction standalone stories written over a period of three years. Dive into the world of a little girl whose family uproots and moves to “The Deep South” because of a new opportunity presented to her father. Transport yourself to the life of a little girl who becomes a mother and a sister to her child at the hands of her sadistic and evil father. Walk with a grieving sister and her mother as they remember a woman who was brutally murdered by her partner. Her young boys live out her legacy as they mourn her.

Experience parenthood as you enter the world of soon-to-be young parents and their ups and downs in life change them significantly while they journey along their new path. Make a brief cameo into the hearts of a dedicated aunt and a rebellious teenage niece whose father has lost his grip on his child.

There are so many more characters with which to connect. As you thumb through each page, the author wants you to feel something; with these stories, you will.


Thank you so much for trusting my work enough to make it apart of your reading collection. I appreciate you, and words cannot express how grateful I am. Peace and blessings.

Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-Book and Paperback) yet?

Saturday Six Word Story Prompt: Fortune

Prompt for Week #115 December 07, 2024 to December 13, 2024

Title: Lucky Not

Six Words: B l e s s e d is a word that lives.

It’s time for Shweta Suresh’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt! This week’s theme is “Fortune” and here are the prompt details:


Welcome to Week #115 of the Saturday Six Word Story PromptClick here to read the guidelines for the Saturday Six Word Story Prompt series. (Psst! I have changed the guidelines recently.)

Prompt for Week ##115 (Dec 07, 2024 – Dec 13, 2024)

Fortune

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I will do a roundup post each Saturday (or Sunday if I run out of time!). So please be sure to participate before time runs out! I can’t wait to read your stories. 😀 I hope that you’ll be back for next week’s Six Word Story Prompt. Have fun! Thank you for participating. Until next week, folks!

P.S: If you have any doubts/suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. The comments section is all yours!
P.P.S: Use the tag 6WSP and don’t forget to pingback to this post!

My contribution simply speaks a bit about being “blessed” versus good luck or fortune–which goes back to the title for my six words: “Lucky Not.” I thought this was a fun theme for this week’s Saturday Six Word Story Prompt, and I am interested in seeing the responses. So many bloggers have been incredibly creative over the past few weeks, and I believe that will also be the case this time.

Perhaps, you want to give it a whirl, too?!

Holiday Spirit: Yours Will Be Missed, Nikki.

#1. Basement Level: One of my neighbors’ doors– decorated for the holidays.
#2. Fourth (technically Fifth) Floor: my neighbor, Ms. Lisa’s door.
#3. My door. How do you like my doormat?

81 years of your words
channeling ties to writers
before you–Baldwin, your
brother-in-verse can breathe
easier now.

heaven has its two wordplayers
in one space again, what will
it do?
we’ll miss your timeless
poetry, your swaying voice,
and your infectious smile.

holiday havoc meshes with
upcoming winter cheer, and
a world without you can
only hold on to your spirit.

you fade into black . . .
your final number,
an encore.


Rest in Power, Nikki Giovanni. Your words live on–and through them, so do you. Amen.

The Gift of Change Is Humbling Me

Walking down my stairwell one week ago. Photo Credit: Tremaine L. Loadholt

On Thursday, October 31, 2024, I was hired for a Patient Navigator position with HALO Precision Diagnostics (HALO DX). The company’s motto is, “Saving lives with early disease detection.”

To put it rather plainly, I will educate patients on the importance of genetic testing for early detection of various cancers (Breast, Lung, Prostate, Neuro, and Heart/Cardiac) and get them scheduled for our services.

The beautiful thing about this new career is that I will be placed at the previous facility where I worked before transitioning to a work-from-home position. I know the place like the back of my hand, and a lot of my old co-workers are still there, and are extremely happy I will be onsite again.

The process has been rigorous and I am still going through security screening for the site as a Non-exempt employee. The position is a newly created one for the host site, which is Novant Health (MedQuest) Imaging Center Piedmont and HALO DX has partnered with this site to drive home their services to qualifying patients.


Friday, December 06, 2024, was my last day with Radiology Scheduling. It was bittersweet. A lot of tears were shed and so many sweet, detailed, and loving messages were sent my way.

We had our company Christmas dinner on Thursday night, and much to my surprise, I was recognized and honored for maintaining 96% or higher throughout the entire year for QA for my calls. I handled two big markets and various modalities, and I was skilled in over 30 sets for the department.

So, maintaining that percentage range was more than impressive to the higher-ups.

I was allowed to select whatever I wanted as a gift, and being the person that I am, I opted for a Novant Health-themed hot/cold tumbler. I’m already in love with it!

We had a great time at the Christmas party and all of the higher-ups told me if this new endeavor doesn’t work out, all I have to do is call or send an email, and I would be welcomed back with open arms.

I do not foresee this new position becoming a problematic one. Everything about it has been calculated and God-led. I’ve been listening for His voice and heard it loud and clear when He advised me to hit the ground running the old-school way and apply for jobs.

Following that method led me to my old site and the center manager informed me she had a position in mind for me . . . and here, we are.


On Monday and Tuesday of this coming week, I’ll be working from home to complete the first few big training sessions for HALO DX. When we have received the notification of my screening clearance, I will be able to begin training and shadowing onsite.

I am nervous, afraid, excited, happy, and sad, but I am so ready for this change. Having worked from home for the last four years, I can feel myself becoming quite the recluse, and I am shaking myself back to some semblance of normalcy.

Whatever I can do to continue to help people in a multitude of ways as it pertains to their health and the prevention of various cancers and diseases, I am all for it!

The butterfly in me has been waiting to emerge. I am no longer cocooned, and I am excitedly waiting to see what this change has in store for me!


Have you gotten your copy of my new book: a collection of serial tales & flash fiction, Séduire (E-Book and Paperback) yet?