*Less Than Cuddly**

When your head feels stuffed
With a skyfall of cotton wool
And you've no one
To comfort & #coddle you
Well then, one in a mug
Would have to do
It won't be quite the same
That much I know is true
But what else can be done
When you're feeling blue
And the cat's ignoring you
#vss365

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Nell closed her eyes, trying to will herself to be patient. They were checking up on her because they were worried about her, and the truth was, sometimes she dearly needed them.
At other times, her friends' need to #coddle her really grated.

#vss365 #coddle #CatchUp

"You #coddle that child, Morgana."
She sliced the onions meticulously—lengthways and then widthways. I blinked my streaming eyes hard. "Coddle?" Morgana said, pausing to lick the blade, "I was thinking of a shallow fry this time, actually."
#vss365 #microfiction

My older sibling grew up coddling monsters. My younger sibling learned how to kill them. I, the middle child, am a monster myself.
They’re arguing with each other, and I don’t know which one should win the fight. I only know there’s blood under my nails, and I can’t remember how it got there.

#vss365 #coddle #vss #MicroFiction #writing

Cracking sounds echo through the woods. Birds nestle in windswept trees & from a tiny cottage, we have the scent of coddle as it is hurled by Mrs O'keefe at her husband, who insists on playing the bagpipes like the Scots.

#vss365 #coddle

"I don't wish to #coddle you through, but the way out of the Escape Room is not to #smear yourself with juice from the bottom of the #trash can, and yell obscenities at The #Man..."

"Oh. So what should I do?"

"Here, drink this. Vodka."

"O...kay!"

#vss365 #2WordPrompt #vssmagic

#Coddle when cooking,
but not when parenting,
lest the fruits of your labor
turn out spoiled.

#vss365 #vssprompt

#Vss365 (#Gardener's version)

Have you heard of "Kill them with #Kindness?" Georgia asked from the #Potting #Bench.

Unsure what was coming next, Ava nodded.

"Well, this big ol' #Jade #Plant almost #Drowned because Missy watered it every day when Jane was sick. Now I get to do CPR to try & save it.
It's like I always say: If you're going to #CODDLE something, make sure you know what you're doing first. No sense missing the mark."

Georgia had a plant #Analogy for every situation.
It got old.

Ann scored some cheap steak cuts that were about to expire. But when she pulled out her benefits card to pay, the cashier went on a rant about how outrageous it was to #coddle the poor with such luxury. The other shoppers glared as if Ann was the one holding up the line.
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#Vss365

In my youth it was not a practical thing to do, to #coddle children, and in some ways it worked, but in so many others it didn't.

Hence, I became so passively-aggressively resistant to all that my father represented.

Not the desired goal, but the method produced a different kind of strength.

Racism?
Sexism?
Bias?
Prejudice?

All received a resounding "NO!".

Oh, and I hate bullies, too!

#OGResquire

A badly behaved
and over-coddled toddler
has ruined my eggs.

#vss365 #Coddle

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#vss365(coddle) The #coddle stew was cooking on the stove. She sniffed appreciatively, stirred, and pushed a floating half-cooked finger deeper into the stew. Manflesh needed extra cooking to prevent disease, but it was worth it. Gretel loved heritage recipes.

#prompt #amwriting #microfiction

"You #coddle that child," he says. Has he forgotten he was the one who built this place? Buried us under 1km of concrete, safe from the horrors outside; refused at the last minute to let other families join? Glaring at him, I hand an extra cookie to our lonely daughter. #vss365

#coddle #vss365 befit beef heat tea rid deep hid keep as seduce reduce deficit yearly pearly compacted extracted distract egg wedhe leg peg line beg mine hedge over fist twist lust summer kist piss purse dysentery sentry distant terminal airport hanger big bang dig dang rig rang many gerbil consummate relate identify a bull frog hamster dog chickenfeed dick on reed begone weed head on bleed internal combust dust rust bust gust histamine been there bak gat bake bum hot oven boil over toil through

"Don't #coddle me. I'm an adult, I can handle the truth."
"The truth-"
"Yeah!"
"Okay, the truth is the world is run by shape-shifting aliens and the Illuminati. Their goal is to subjugate humanity and use us as breeding stock and food."
"Can we go back to coddling?"
#vss365

"I wish I'd been born rich and attractive, then the world would #coddle me instead of making me fight for every damned thing."
#vss365

"Setting aside Igrid's...plan," Tan said, "How is Coral involved? She doesn't seem like the type to #coddle her captain through such a situation."
"No, indeed," Leo agreed. "I'll show you."
He led them deeper into the mushroom forest, until they reached a house.
#vss365

A warm coddle,
Enveloped completely.
Heart so full,
of love and life.
Her scent hypnotic,
Comfort in her presence.
Time stands still,
lost in the moments.
I long for her touch,
tender and kind.
My body aching,
Wanting and longing.

#vss365 #coddle

#vss365

"#Coddle a child, and one result is the insufferable ultracrapadarian we have before us."

"That would be 'ultracrepidarian', thank you."

"Maybe, but you still talk crap."

(A little word I picked up yesterday, which I thought I might share!)

"Molly #Coddle? That was her actual name? Molly Coddle?"
"Yup." Ed took a sip of his coffee. "At least that's what she told me."
"And did she?"
"Food, snacks, drinks, more drinks. She even offered me two extra cushions—Of course one of them was to push down on my face..."
#vss365