"Grandma's Cigarettes" -WWW Prompts

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I never knew her without a cigarette between her fingers or the smell of her smoky habit permeating her clothes, her hair, her furniture, her everything. I picture her still with a cup of sugary cream coffee in one hand and a curl of smoke rising from the cigarette in her other, having been lit with the last cigarette inhaled.

A chain smoker - I hadn't understood that term as a child, but that was my Grandma Dorothy. One cigarette right after another, never without.

Didn't all grandma's do this?

As a kid, that was all I knew. Unfortunately, her smoking habit was ultimately what took her away - carotid artery.

Damn her smoking - but I knew her no other way, and honestly, I don't think she knew herself any other way either.


(I chose prompt #1 and #2)

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​Here are this week’s prompts:

1. Write a post inspired by the word cigarette.
2. Write a post in exactly 8 lines.
3. Tell us about something you saw in a gift shop while you were on vacation.
4. Do you have any personal rituals or routines? Write about one of them.
5. Write about a time you taught someone else about a particular skill you have.
6. Tell us about a time you felty like giving up, and what it was that kept you going.

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