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Writing prompts tumblr11/11/2022 ![]() ![]() There’s the large house across town that paid the “Magic Elf” to clean out the gutters. WRITING PROMPTS TUMBLR WINDOWSYou do the windows too, just to see if they notice. There’s the apartments down your street where several neighbors have hired you to tidy up, do the dishes, and mop the floors. You print off your updated list of clients, step outside, and start making your way through the neighborhood with your to-do list. The money that comes in from the business is nice, but you’re mostly grateful that it gives you a clear list of things to do. It was a little slow to get started, but word has spread and these days you have a steady stream of clients. You’ve set up a website for the small business you started called “Magic Elf Services.” People in your area can pay a modest fee on your site to have different tasks and odd jobs done by “The Magic Elf” at 8:17pm every day. (Oh how you already miss afternoons.) Then you go back inside, boot up your computer (which magically speeds up to keep pace with you as long as you’re in contact with it) and check for any new orders. You clean your home, do your budget, then go outside and fix a noise that your car was making earlier that afternoon. ![]() You knew it was too soon to be able to see any movement on the watch, but you can never quite help yourself from looking early on every 20:17. You check your pocket watch and see that not even one hundredth of a second has passed. The work is mentally stimulating and enjoyable, but it’s finished far too quickly. You stretch your arms and walk to the table with the homework for the three doctorates you’re working on. The ticking of the clock on the wall has stopped. The face of your beloved is perfectly still, their expression exactly the same. Every ounce of fatigue or hunger leaves your body. “Well, it was a nice day.” You kiss your sweetheart gently on the forehead and sigh as the last remaining seconds of 20:16 tick away. “See you at 8:18,” you say. ![]()
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