What to Eat with Cookies

1. Milk.
2. Ice cream.
3. Yogurt.
4. Fruit.
5. Hot chocolate.
6. A sandwich.
7. More cookies!
8. Whipped cream.
9. Pie.
10. Fried chicken.

Battle of the Bugs

The marching ants refuse to yield, no matter what foe they meet on the field.
The skittering centipedes' frightful stampede, is met by charge most fearsome indeed.
The droning bees who buzz from overhead? They're shot down like the flies who dared to laugh at the ants wearing red.
The flitting butterflies who dance in the wind, should have known better than to stay it doesn't matter who wins.
And the ladybug knows what the others failed to see; that ants are a force best left alone beneath the tree.

Important Things to Remember

1. Your name. Otherwise you won't have an easy answer when someone asks who you are.
2. Birthdays. Yours, your mother's, remembering a birthday shows that you care.
3. If you blew out the candle. Fire safety is very important, after all.
4. Where you hid the cookies. Because if you can't find them, you can't eat them.
5. Passwords. Because one day even the toaster might require a password.
6. Your schedule. Are you free next Tuesday, or was that when you were going to lunch with your best friend?
7. To eat and drink enough each day. Meals are important, as is staying hydrated.
8. To have fun. Because each day should bring at least one reason to smile.
9. To get enough sleep. Sleep is good. Exhaustion, not so good.
10. To say "I love you". Let those you care about know how you feel often, in both word and deed. Love is best when shared.

Memory-Keeper

In this village, everyone forgets what happened in their life at the end of each day.
Everyone, that is, except for me.
I am the memory-keeper: tasked with remembering all that has happened to every member of the village, and sharing that knowledge as deemed necessary by the council of elders.
A council whose memories are also kept by me.
The people have learned to track what they should do each day by leaving themselves a note the night before. For the most part this system works, if it weren't for one little detail.
The notes the find each morning have been forged.
What they do each day is controlled by an outside force.
And they don't even know it.
The villagers just go about their days, happily blind as to how they've been manipulated.
The poor fools.
As for me? Well, I'm not a part of the group that is pulling the strings.
I'm just the unfortunate soul who is immune to their mind wipe.
For years, I tried to get the other villagers to remember, to do something to reclaim their lives.
For they know that they've forgotten things, but don't recall enough to care about what has been forgotten.
But after a while, I gave up.
What was the point?
They always forgot about the rebellion by the end of the day, whenever I did manage to get someone to act.
So now I remind the villagers that I remember everything that has happened, and the council decides that no one needs to know their past.
Over and over, every day.
The same conversations, the same decisions.
I wish I could forget.

How Mermaids Spend Their Days

1. Collecting seashells. If you're a mermaid, seashells have many uses; as clothing, cookware, and storage, to name a few.
2. Harvesting seaweed. Because the best underwater meals are made with fresh seaweed, not those slimy strands you find in the market.
3. Talking to fish. And if they want a really fintastic conversation, they talk to the dolphins.
4. Watching ships. A great game mermaids play is called name that ship, where they have to identify a ship from underneath it.
5. Teasing the sirens. Mermaids and sirens do not get along, and often spend hours each day trying to best (or simply annoy) the other.
6. Drying their hair. Lounging on the beach, mermaids can be quite vain about whose hair looks best when dry.
7. Flirting with sailors. Mermaids enjoy flirting, and will often seek out sailors to practice on. But sometimes a mermaid will actually fall for one of these sailors, and be left pining beneath the ship whenever he goes ashore.
8. Caring for her skin. Because saltwater can wreck havoc on a mermaid's skin if she doesn't properly care for it. It's one of the cons of being partly human.
9. Practicing their singing. Because one day, the mermaids will beat the sirens ate the annual singing competition.
10. Exercising. Because it takes a lot of endurance to swim everywhere at a pace that makes getting out of the seabed each morning worth it.

The Thing about Time Travel

You know that tingling in your leg when it falls asleep? Imagine that, but everywhere.
That is what time travel feels like.
And the farther back you go, the longer that feeling lasts.
So a jump back to five minutes ago will leave you feeling like you've just experienced back acupuncture for those ten minutes.
Oh, and past you? Still here. Try not to interact, or time might explode.
We think.
Let's not find out.
So, what about if you go really far back, like say, to a year ago?
Enjoy a year of aches, as your future self.
If you are really, really dumb, you'll do what I did.
What did I do?
I messed up when imputing the time to jump back to, and ended up sometime back in the prehistoric.
So not only do I have dinosaurs trying to eat me, no way back to the present, and a constant feeling of pins and needles everywhere, but I also brought my favorite book.
I hope archaeologists enjoy finding a fossilized book that shouldn't have existed in this era, because I know the time traveler's board will be furious.

Potential Sewing Projects

1. A dress.
2. A pair of pants.
3. A stuffed animal.
4. A purse.
5. A backpack.
6. A dice pouch.
7. A pencil case.
8. A hat.
9. A jacket.
10. A pillow.