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Week 8 : The year is 2563

March 8, 2023 by Penny

Week 8 February 19-25  Prompt: The year is 2563  “Yes, I know I’m just an outcast I shouldn’t speak to you Still I see your face and wonder Were you once an outcast too?  God help the outcasts Hungry from birth Show them the mercy they don’t find on Earth God help my people We look …

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Week 7: Business as Unusual

March 7, 2023 by Penny

Week 7 February 12 -18  Prompt: Business as Unusual  Baretta’s Theme (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)  Don’t go to bed, with no price on your head Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time  And keep your eye on the sparrow. When the going gets narrow.  Don’t do me dirt or you’re …

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Week 6: A Lunch Date Gone Wrong 

February 26, 2023 by Penny

Week 6: February 5 –February 11, 2023  Prompt: A Lunch Date Gone Wrong   “Take me in oh tender woman   Take me in for heaven’s sake   Take me in oh tender woman   Sighed the snake “  From The Snake 1968 Al Wilson  A Lunch Date Gone Wrong    I’m Gracie. Well, that’s what …

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Week 5: An Unexpected Union

February 18, 2023 by Penny

Week 5: January 29 – February 4, 2023  Prompt: An Unexpected Union  “Cellophane Mister Cellophane Shoulda Been My Name, Mister Cellophane ‘Cause You Can Look Right Through Me Walk Right By Me And Never Know I’m There…” (From the Musical, Chicago)  “Excuse me, young man, do you think I could get….” I rushed only to make contact with the …

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Week 4 Chasing the Enemy

February 1, 2023 by Penny

Week 4 January 22-28  Prompt Chasing the Enemy       Chasing the Enemy (Part Two)    After a sleepless night, I washed my face, combed my hair, and pulled on a t and sweats. I was making coffee when the phone rang. I reached for an old-fashioned doughnut, my favorite, and sat at the breakfast bar. …

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Week 3: Drama in and Out of the Lab

February 2, 2023 by Penny

Week 3: January 15-21  Prompt: Drama in and Out of the Lab    Dying For A Cure Part One “I’ve got chills, they’re multiplying, And I’m Losing Control…” Sonja turned off the 8-track cassette tape of her current favorite, the musical Grease. As she pulled her 1972 Ford Pinto into the Bio Lab parking lot. …

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Week 2: The Broken Road

January 17, 2023 by Penny

Week 2: January 8-14, 2023 Prompt: A Family Mystery Uncovered Of course, it would have to be Friday the 13th. This secret had been buried for over two decades, if it was going to surface, it would be on this unluckiest of days. It has been at least that long since I have been back …

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Week 1 PROMPT: A STRANGE REQUEST AT A PIANO BAR

January 17, 2023 by Penny

January 1-7, 2023 PROMPT: A STRANGE REQUEST AT A PIANO BAR  “It’s five o clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in…”  My fingers paused over the keyboard. The eyes always capture me first. Hers were brown and rich as Godiva’s chocolates. Her graceful walk had more than one appreciative gaze moving her way. …

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Finally!

January 10, 2023 by Penny

I first purchased the name The Invisible People Series as a domain name in 2012. I never got further but never let the domain name go and never stopped thinking about these characters.

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About Penny

M. Penny Manson

M. Penny Manson is first and foremost a teacher and entertainer. She supported herself for many years as a storyteller who used ethnic stories to share and teach life lessons. Providing presentations on self-esteem, youth empowerment and substance abuse prevention to Sacramento County District schools for over 20 years, her background in behavioral science, combined with a theatrical experience, allowed her to present to preschoolers through college-age students and adults alike. Her poems have been published in the ZICA Anthology, Speak, Write, Dream and in More of Life’s Spices, the Sistahs Still Keepin‘ It Real vol II from Nubian Images Publishing and an essay in the LTYM Anthology from Putnam Books “LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now”. When she isn’t playing on Facebook she is working on a Mystery Series about “The Invisible People.” 

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