In this post, we'll announce the winners from last week's contest and provide the prompt for the coming week.
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Important notes:
Thank you to all who participated in last week's prompt Influence
![]() | Mall Day Out I like chocolates a lot and one could easily influence me with it. Unluckily for me, my friend was also a chocolate addict . Like clockwork I found myself picking chocolate bars and wafers off the counters. Without thinking twice. |
![]() | No more living for Janice But I walked back to the mirror and looked. Indeed behind the charade, the real Treasure was crying desperately for expression. It was then I knew I had always been under the influence of Janice. I came to terms with the fact that Treasure had been tucked away nicely by Janice. She had replicated herself in me subconsciously. |
![]() | How do I get over this influence? Just as I lean my ears closer to listen to Deebo, one of the boys, as he starts explaining why he just can't let go of Clara, despite being mocked by fellow young men for being a simp, Koko walks towards me with a satisfying and somewhat mischievous grin. He whispers to my ears, "You guys can go back to the kitchen; I've spoken with mom." |
| Seventy-nine Sometimes I think about it. I ask myself, who influenced who? But you see that's the thing about Influence in friendship. Sometimes you can't pinpoint who started it. You can't identify who thought of doing it first. So we all take the blame. We influenced each other. |
Our third place winner is , with the story:

At night, I couldn't sleep as her face kept popping up and that moment she packed her wares with a pained expression on her face kept haunting me. I told myself I must find a way to buy from her to make up for what I did.
Our second place winner is , with the story:

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I remember resuming at Rose with hope and energy. I needed to be at the top of my game and show them that they wouldn’t want to lose me as a potential staff member. I was overwhelmed on the first day. Most things that were taught just a little bit in school were things I began to see on scan. Ultrasound was new and exciting, and it was indeed intriguing to actually see all the organs, blood vessels, and muscles we struggled so hard to learn in school.
Our first place winner is , with the story:

"The short vowel is weak, and needs protection from the 'ing' monster, so it doubles the consonant. The long vowel is strong and can defend itself against the monster 'ing'."
To this day I remember the 'monster' lesson. Mrs. Birdsall used logic to reach her students. She taught me phonics. It was the first time anyone explained to me that words could be logical. Logic works really well with me. It's my language. It's the reason I would fall in love with geometry one day. It's the reason I excelled at sentence diagramming in middle school.
The word heart can take many forms:
Heartfelt, heartwarming, heartsore, heavy-hearted, heartthrob, heartache, heartless, heartening, heartily, heartstrings, heartburn, and so forth.
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