Magpie Monday

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dialecticdreamer is hosting Magpie Monday with a theme of "bottom rungs." Leave prompts, get ficlets! And at least one link on the beginner step(s) you requested.

When every prompt is filled, I’ll post a summary of the stories to help make it easy to select among them for stories to sponsor. If I reach a total of $150 in sponsored stories, I’ll post a story of 7500 to eight thousand words of the new retelling of Beauty and the Beast. (A bonus of at least 500 words to anyone who can help me think of a better title!)

If you are new here, I encourage you to check out this project, as the author is both prolific and fascinating.  She is currently running a perk to attract new readers, so if you say you're new, you get extra fic; and if you mention that I sent you, I get some too.  Everybody wins!  \o/