Charli’s Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge, this week:
February 25 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story using the word frozen. It can be descriptive, character focused, action driven. Go out onto the ice and find a frozen story. Go where the prompt leads!
Frozen
All I could hear were titters, whispering, and the odd lewd comment, and there was nothing I could do about it.
Well, of course I was telling them to ignore the unignorable, and continue to listen to me, as I explained the importance of probability.
My words fell on deaf ears. I could imagine the screen shots, and subsequent memes flooding WhatsApp.
My face, frozen on screen, with my mouth wide open, eyes closed, as if I was in the midst of something much more pleasurable than teaching maths.
Dang remote learning, unstable internet connections, and bloody live lessons!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Mar 06, 2021 @ 15:21:58
Hope that’s not a BOTS. All the best for the return on Monday.
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Mar 06, 2021 @ 15:24:11
Thankfully not for me, but it has happened to others, Anne!!
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Mar 03, 2021 @ 02:43:15
How well you have captured the misery of the unignorable and intermittent connectivity. And yet, made worse, by the apps modern students wield like social weapons. Well done.
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Mar 03, 2021 @ 07:07:29
Thank you Charli! I can’t wait for normal school to start on Monday!
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Mar 02, 2021 @ 20:11:47
What a nightmare this must be for you, Sis! Bravo for all you do. ❤
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Mar 02, 2021 @ 20:26:45
Can’t wait for normal teaching, Sis!
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Mar 02, 2021 @ 20:48:06
I bet. I know the kids must be struggling too. ❤
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Mar 02, 2021 @ 21:35:36
Some have actually flourished in some waays, but in general, they are excited to be back. They need to be together. That is a more natural environment for them, Sis!
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Mar 02, 2021 @ 22:08:40
I know. Same here in the States. It’s tough on the kids. ❤️
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Mar 03, 2021 @ 07:08:35
Very tough, Sis xxx
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Feb 28, 2021 @ 21:31:24
Havent you made a photo? Therefore a smartphone is also given to users of personal computers. Lol Michael
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Feb 28, 2021 @ 21:59:50
Lol!
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Feb 28, 2021 @ 22:43:24
:-))
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Feb 28, 2021 @ 17:19:36
You nailed it. A teacher’s worst nightmare comes to life in words.
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Feb 28, 2021 @ 17:49:09
Thanks, Ann!
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 20:01:13
Absolutely brilliant Sis love it 💜💜💜
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 20:19:47
Thanks, Sis 😳💜💜
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 21:18:53
💜💜
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 18:31:03
“Ignore the unignorable,”—great line, Ritu!
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 18:31:47
Of course they can’t ignore something like that! 🤣
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 21:18:15
Your line works for me. I have tried to ignore some pretty hideous things.
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 21:30:50
🤣🤣🤣
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 14:07:33
Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 14:32:38
Thank you, Chuck 🥰
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 13:58:38
Well done, Ritu!
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Feb 27, 2021 @ 14:01:23
Thanks, Jennie!
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Feb 28, 2021 @ 02:37:28
You’re welcome, Ritu!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 22:05:30
Isn’t that the unfortunate reality! Great take on the prompt.
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 22:09:52
Thank you so much!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 18:01:26
From frozen screens to no Audio to no picture… it’s an adventure, Sister 💜
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 18:04:14
A true adventure, Brother!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 18:11:30
💜💜💜
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 17:57:53
This is a very intriguing piece, Ritu.
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 17:59:27
Thanks, Robbie!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 15:29:28
The modern perspective of frozen… lol!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 15:59:33
Absolutely the current meaning!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 15:22:29
HA! My wife just had a really funny Guest on here show – the Lawyer who became “internet famous” by accidently making himself a “cat” during a call with a Judge…had no idea how that app opened up on his computer, but he had a good sense of humor about it!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 15:24:01
I wouldn’t hesitate to have a funny filter!!! All props to him! !
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 16:24:33
Except it was an office court meeting with a Judge and opposing Lawyer – and he couldn’t turn his “cat filter” off!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 17:00:24
We know. It made worldwide news!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 14:16:35
Ha! Cute
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 14:22:40
Thanks Sis!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 13:17:06
Ritu, very clever my friend. Keith
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 13:18:30
Thanks Keith@
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 12:49:08
That is just perfect. I have been doing remote school visits and am so worried that something like that will happen to me.
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 12:52:01
It is a teachers worst nightmare!
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 12:23:06
Frozen images! I never would have thought of that 👍😅
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Feb 26, 2021 @ 12:26:30
I think, right now, my brain can only process thoughts of school and remote learning, since that is all I am doing, right now! It was the first thing that came to mine!
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