Munificent

The prompt was:

Munificent (adjective)
mu·nif·i·cent [myoo-nif-uh-suhnt]

adjective
1. extremely liberal in giving; very generous.
2. characterized by great generosity: a munificent bequest.

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Blake was many things, she knew – arrogant, childish, often drunken – but there was one thing he was not and that was selfish.  Not with his money, not with his time, and definitely not with his heart.  He had an awful lot of faults but at the center of it all, he was a damn good man.  Ali had more than enough proof of that.

 “What are you doing, Blake?”  Ali had wandered out of the kitchen, cereal bowl still in hand, to find her husband making a disaster of her finally clean living room.

Blake looked up from a pile of parts and plastic pieces, a set of assembly instructions in one hand.  “Building something,” he said.

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Bedside Manner

Writing Prompt:  Write for ten minutes on the subject: congestion
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Wes hated being sick.  Hated it.  As Kendall was fond of saying, “It sucked big fat man hooters.”  (As if that was a visual he needed when he was already queasy.)  A coughing fit wracked his slim frame, causing him to reach for the box of Kleenex by his bedside.  Whatever he had managed to come down with this time could go the hell away anytime.

Every time he coughed, he felt like he was hacking up half a lung.  More gook came up every time he did and it was beginning to gross him out.   

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