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Football skills!

Chris Hall53 Comments

Photo Prompt © Sandra Crook

She’d been kicking a football around the yard. She was a pretty good kicker, well, she thought so. She’d been dribbling a bit, then she would kick the football as hard as she could by the tall wall.

But this time, she kicked the ball too high, and it sailed over the wall.
She would have to go next door. And that place was very grand.

She should just walk over there and look confident, and not get her knickers in a twist.

She rapped the door knocker loudly.
But nothing.
However, the football bounced back to her.
Lucky, eh?

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Thanks to Rochelle for hosting Friday Fictioneers
Genre: Historical Fiction
Word Count: 100

2 October 2026

Di of Pensitivity 101 – Thursday’s Three Things Challenge: KICKER, KNICKERS, KNOCKER

53 thoughts on “Football skills!”

  17. This is so funny, but when I was reading this, I immediately envisioned an American football, and thought, you can’t dribble a football 🤔 and then it dawned on me, she’s talking about what we would call a soccer ball! Always learning vocabulary from your blog! Great fun!🏈⚽️

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    • Oh yes, of course. This particular ball is this: ⚽ I still call this ‘football’, although I really should call it ‘soccer’. Like we have often said English words and American words can be rather different! 😉🤣

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