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Texting in the 80s: Chapter 2

Marissa and James met Cassandra at the party 🎉 at one of their classmates, Laura Thomas, she was throwing. It was an 80s party 🎉--to the chagrin of Marissa, James, and Cassandra. It was Laura's mother's idea 💡. Laura didn't tell her classmates the theme of the party 🎉 for fear 😱 they wouldn't come?! "Laura, so glad you invited us!" Marissa exclaimed to Laura and her mother. "I'm so glad." Laura's mother said. "Because tonight is all about the 80s!" "The 80s?" Cassandra asked. "Yes. Nothing is allowed that wasn't in the 80s. No cellphones. No MP3 players." "Does my Bluetooth count?" James asked as he chatted with his friend, Mark. "Yes, James, even your Bluetooth. So put your modern-day technology away." Laura's mother said. "Tonight is all about the 80s." As Marissa, Cassandra, James, Laura and the other stude...

Texting in the 80s--Chapter 1

"Mom, where's my iPhone 📱?" Marissa asked her mother. "You're on that thing way too much?!" Marissa's mother tells her. "Sorry, mom!" Marissa apologizes. "I just can't live without my iPhone 📱. It's my life!" "One day you'll be sorry for relying on those things. I wish I never got them for you." "Yeah, I know, mom." Marissa says unsympathetically. "I gotta go. Late meeting with James and Cassandra." Marissa hops in her brand-new Jeep Cherokee and drives 🚗off to school 🏫. Her parents got her the car 🚗 when Marissa pulled straight As in junior high school 🏫. Marissa wondered what she would get if she got all As in high school 🏫? She couldn't wait ✋ for graduation 🎓 to find out? Pulling into the school 🏫 parking lot, Marissa's boyfriend 👦, James Royce, met her with...

Texting in the 80s: Plot

Rich and popular, Marissa James, has all the modern-day technology a girl 👧 could want: iPhone 📱, MP3 player, laptop--you name it, she has it. But when she a her best friend, Cassandra Nelson and her boyfriend, James Royce, find themselves trapped in the 80s, they realize that they need to find their way back using only 80s technology. Will they want to go back to their plush lifestyle or will they find life in the 80s easier?

Cards That Nurses Play

Cards that nurses play at work Holding the hand ✋ of the sick 😷 Listening to their pain Or someone who wants to die Because the suffering is too unbearable Torn Rules to follow Or patient's rights?!

Call Lights

Cherish the patient Who's rarely on their light Happy to do whatever they request But the patient who's constantly on theirs Grudgingly answering their light Because the patient thinks You're their personal maid At their beck and call To do whatever they wish Making sure they have whatever they need Before you move on to other patients As you ask 'Is there anything else you need?' And they reply 'No, I'm good.' But once you leave the room The call light is back on You suck it up and go back in To see what they want Playing an endless game of Call-light happiness!!!!!

Alienation

Alienation Is a bitter pill 💊 To swallow When we shun Those who truly care for us For someone Who habitually Hurts us!

Writing Prompt: Pebbles on the Window

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1.        It’s 2 a.m. and you wake to the sound of someone throwing pebbles at your window. I couldn’t sleep…… Not when pebbles were being thrown at my window! I told him not to do it, but he did it anyway.    The next thing i knew, my father was pounding on my bedroom door, “What’s all the commotion up here?!” “Nothing dad.” I yelled through my bedroom door hoping he would go away and forget Charlie wasn’t there.   I didn’t need my father’s anger drawn into this. But unfortunately, my father didn’t go away.   He opened my bedroom door, not even making sure I was decent, and went to my window. I didn’t have to see my father’s face to know he was seething   when he saw Charlie standing outside my bedroom window.   “Damn that boy!”   my father yelled.   “I’m going out there to give him a piece of my mind!” Part of me wanted to go with my father…to calm him down so he wouldn’t do...