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’25 A To Z Challenge – H

I have never let the cat out of the bag.  I have never bought (or sold) a pig in a poke – because I have never owned a

HAVERSACK

A haversack is a one-strap backpack.  The single strap can be draped over one shoulder, or looped over the head for greater security.  It is also known as a ditty bag, where I keep sheets of paper with all the lyrics to the songs I like, so that I don’t start belting out mondegreens, – Excuse me while I kiss this guy – and also a musette bag, where I keep all my little Muses, until they traipse away, leaving me with no inspiration, and a dry, dreary blogpost like this.

It came from the Old German word, havre + sack.  That meant just what it looked like it meant, if you remove the letter R – have, only with the subtle definition distinction of not being a sack that you have, but a sack that existed to have something in.

The French took the “contained and safe” meaning, and turned the word into a haven, like the seaport Le Havre.  I’m going to have to buckle down, and start to compose something for the letter I – besides Idiot, and Imbecile.

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Flash Fiction # 129

Steampunk

PHOTO PROMPT © Jellico’s Stationhouse

EASY RIDER

Hurry up, already. We’ll be late for lecture.  Why don’t you buy an electric moped?

There was no use saying it out loud. It was always the same.  It took Lenny as long as it took, almost ten minutes.

In that amount of time, we could have walked across campus and got a coffee with the blonde twins.

I really don’t understand some people’s enthralment with Steampunk. What genius builds his own steam-powered bicycle, and carries coal around in his backpack?  Where do you even buy coal??

Finally, like the Little Engine – I think I can, I think I can….

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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.