K's "Best of the Rest" FIAF Moments

This picture was taken from the Internet.  And yes, it was a poll of one person...me!)

As I indicated in my note earlier, I'm going the extra mile, because I want to, and it was difficult for me to choose the ones I liked best.  I ended up choosing two in each self-made category -- female protagonist, male protagonist, dialogue -- and had to forcibly restrain myself from choosing more.  Don't get me wrong, I don't think I'm "all that and a bag o' chips" when it comes to doing these, but I like some of them a whole lot more than I like others, and with my teacher's instinct, I also recognize some really good ones among them, as well.

I hope you enjoy the choices I have made!  

Female Protagonist "Bests"

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Male Protagonist "Bests"

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Dialogue Only "Bests"

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K's FIAF #100

THE LAST TIME

This lushest tributary of the river was especially vivid today as they hiked by the cabin where they normally stayed overnight. Today was Ben's last here, before the move he couldn't avoid.  

All he loved was here.

They came upon the wide river too soon, and waited, the silence between them deep as the river.

No one else has to do this, but because this might be the last FIAF -- I know, you all object, and I AM rethinking it -- I've decided to do three "best of the Bests". One will be the best with a female protagonist, another the best of the male protagonists, the last the best with dialogue only. It'll be fun for you, I hope, as much as it will be fun for me to choose them.

Fiction in a Flash #100 & "The Best of the Rest"

This week, in celebration of our 100th challenge, two pictures.  As usual, feel free to do either one, or combine both into one, if you can.  Then, in addition to the new challenge, please post a link to the "best of the rest" that you have done, so we can not only read this new vignette, but revisit the one you think is the best of all you've done.  Have fun with this week's game!

These photographs were taken from the Internet.

The "rules" are few and very simple:
* Your entry will come due each Saturday, when a new picture will be posted.
* You may only write 55 words.
* Your entry must be fiction.
* You may not alter the picture in any way.
* Post your entry as a blog on your page, and drop off the link in the comments section on this page.
* Have fun!  (Yes, it's a rule!  )

Pregnancy Test????? WTH!!!!!

Today I had to have two procedures done, one of which had previously been done at Vassar Brothers Medical Center.  Today's procedures were an echo sonohysterogram, and a catheter sonohysterogram. The second procedure involved inserting a catheter into my uterus, pumping some fluid into it, and then looking around.  

(If you're REALLY interested in ole lady medical stuff, go Google them!)

What I found really funny was that, to begin, I was given a regular sonogram, the kind pregnant women are given at every visit, and after that, I was asked to provide a urine sample for a pregnancy test.

Yep...you heard me right!  A pregnancy test!  You could have knocked me over with a feather!!!  When I laughed and asked why, I was told it's part of the procedure.  I guess they have to be careful, even with supposedly post- (VERY POST-) menopausal women like me, on the off-chance that there might be a lil bambina snuggling up in my womb. They wouldn't want to pass ANY objects through my cervix, or insert any foreign bodies into my womb, unless they were taking an amniotic sample (which I wouldn't have let them do, anyway. I didn't with my last child, when I was 42.)

Still, a pregnancy test!  I laughed for a while.  And then chuckled some more.  And then breathed a silent sigh of relief when the little monitor showed one line, like the one above!  

Because I hate to say it, but if, by some weird and totally odd "miracle", I became pregnant after all my eggs have been used up (three years now) -- that's what menopause is, we run out of eggs! -- I would NOT have been a happy camper.  At ALL!

Thank God for small mercies! 

YEAH!

Makes me wanna dance, coz it's a catchy tune with some awesome moves...and the big girl gets the hot guy!! YAY!!!    "I love it when a plan comes together!"

If only life were like this musical, eh?  

Spunky Attitude!

I was gonna title this one "Spunks", remembering what Christophine tried to teach her charge, Antoinette, in WIDE SARGASSO SEA ("Woman mus' have spunks to live in this wicked world!"), but I know how some of you are, and this has NOTHING to do with THAT!  

What a great song...and at the end of the short span of time -- "It isn't too long a stay" -- that is your life, can you hear Sinatra sing "Yes, it was my way!"?