Three Things Challenge #MM523
💫 Three Things Challenge #MM523
21.08.2026
Today’s three words:
QUIRE • QUAKE • QUACK
After yesterday’s adventure across the peat bog with a plate of cake, I thought today’s words might be a little more sensible.
Apparently not. 😂
I sat down with a quire of paper, determined to write something profound.
Pen ready.
Coffee beside me.
Writer mode activated.
Then the ground began to quake.
Not dramatically enough for tables to overturn or books to fall from shelves…
but certainly enough to make me forget whatever brilliant sentence had been forming in my head.
I froze.
The coffee survived.
Priorities.
And then, from somewhere outside, came:
QUACK!
I looked out the window.
A duck stood there looking completely unimpressed by the situation.
Another tremor.
QUACK!
Apparently the duck had appointed itself earthquake commentator.
By this point, my profound piece of writing had disappeared entirely.
So I picked up my pen and wrote instead:
“The earth moved.
The duck complained.
The coffee survived.”
Sometimes inspiration doesn’t arrive as poetry.
Sometimes it arrives as complete nonsense with feathers.
And I’m perfectly okay with that.
#3TC #MM523 #ThreeThingsChallenge
With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
https://ditto.fm/silenced-but-not-broken
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