This
meme was started by Delores a long time ago. Computer issues led her
to bow out for a while. The meme was too much fun to let go, and now
Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a
movable feast.
Essentially
the aim is to encourage us to write. Each week we are given a choice
of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image. What we
do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a
poem, or treating them with ignore... We can use some or all of the
prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.
Some
of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on
their own blog. I would really like it if as many people as possible
joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants. If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.
This week's prompts are:
- Saturn
- Orange
- Festival
- Wind
- Spicy
- Flustered
And/or
- Horror
- Neon
- Giant
- Fight
- Perfect
- Flying
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has given us Mint Green as the colour of the month. If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and I) will be grateful.
Have fun.
In related news. This year is rapidly drawing to a close and I am seeking people who are happy to provide the prompts (either here or on your own blog) next year. If you are able to do so, please let me know in the comments, stating which month suits and whether you will post here or on your own blog. I hope to be able to post next year's schedule some time next month.
Remembering learning at school that Saturn was a gas giant Rosie privately christened their new boss Derek Barnes with the name of the planet. She had to fight with herself not to tell her co-workers. She lost. It was just the perfect name for him and they agreed.
ReplyDeleteWhen he broke wind there were certainly Saturn like rings around him. Exclusionary zones. She wouldn’t be surprised at all if the air changed colour. Orange perhaps or a nasty brownish yellow.
Everyone had experienced the horror of being shut in his office desperately trying to find an excuse to leave. Quickly. Saturn’s gases were apparently noble, like helium or neon. Derek’s were definitely ignoble. He wasn’t flustered though and said ‘better out than in’ and blithely continued on his windy way.
Days where he ate a spicy lunch were the worst. People were flying when they left his office and their faces were a sickly grey green.
Fridays, when he worked in the city office were a positive festival of clean air, fresh mint green air. Just one more reason to LOVE the end of the week.
Oh, my! Hahaha...thank you, E.C. for this, um, explosive post!
DeleteLOL! Well done with the words, and thanks for the belly laughs!
DeleteAs the mother of sons only, I cannot tell you how much they will enjoy this when I copy and paste it to them! Excellent!
DeleteHeeheehee! Thank you.
DeleteI have the feeling I might quit that job rather than put up with "Saturn", very well done, I laughed.
DeleteGreat fun EC - brilliantly crafted ... Saturn will never be the same again - much laughing from here ... xox
DeleteI laughed so hard at this EC, brilliant!
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Brilliant as always, Sue and really funny. You are a genius!
DeleteThere's that brilliant mind again:) I agree with your lovely commenters, brilliant:)
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Well done! Now that is creative. I might have to nickname someone Saturn.
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ReplyDeleteFirst - the second lot!: The horror of that perfect night returned … where did that flying neon giant appear from … perhaps a mint green julep would help steady her nerves.
Second - the first lot:
Saturn is not the red planet, nor is it orange … yet the festival lights, including those mint green ones, blew in the wind … the aroma of spicy candy floss … tempted the flustered clown – but those Circus lights would be up and finished soon.
Hilary Melton-Butcher: I really enjoyed both of your very different takes on the prompts. Clowns however bother me. I see them as sad or sinister.
DeleteNice stories
DeleteNicely done Hilary!
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Well done, Hilary. Your quirkiness delights us all.
DeleteWorking on these words, and would love to have whatever month(s) you give me next year. Here's to another year of fun!
ReplyDeletemessymimi: Thank you. I look forward to seeing where Alex's difficult prompts take you and am grateful that you are happy to provide the prompts next year too.
DeleteAunt Marigold popped up unexpectedly and claimed the words.
Deletemessymimi: I look forward to reading it.
DeleteThe neon lights lit up the perfect horror show below as the flying giant dove in for the big fight.
ReplyDeleteMike: And now you have me wondering who the giant is fighting - and who will win.
DeleteSuccinct and scary.
DeleteCrumbs I wonder what mess the flying giant made on landing ... splodge of orange ... well done - Hilary
DeleteTerrifying.
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The spicy food and wind at the festival flustered her as she ate an orange to kill the spice while she sat on an urn.
ReplyDeleteMike: Captain Succinct rides again. I hope the orange helps.
DeleteI like spice, but even I can be overwhelmed. Nicely done.
DeleteHi Mike - the urn ... what next? Cheers Hilary
DeleteThe new moon sky gave Saturn an opportunity to shine its best. My spicy pumpkin latte looked almost orange as the lights of the festival grounds came into view. Suddenly a gust of wind tore the cup from my hand. Flustered by the wet result, I turned around for home.
ReplyDeleteMarie Smith: Your poor protagonist. Given the winds we have had this week I would have headed home too - but I hope she can still see Saturn through the window.
DeleteNot the results one wants, but a nicely told story resulted.
DeleteNot surprised she turned around for home - hope that was safe, as too her journey back ... well done - Hilary
DeleteDisapointing for her. I hope she didn't get too wet.
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Now that's a good drabble.
DeleteHaha...fun post!
ReplyDeleteAuthors with Advice: It is a great meme. Perhaps you will join us some week.
DeleteFit me in wherever you like next year. I'll get to work on the words and have something up on my blog by Friday.
ReplyDeleteRiver: Thank you. I was pretty sure I could rely on you.
DeleteThe HORROR in that NEON sign, it’s like a GIANT coming to FIGHT me in my PERFECT sleep that I was having. Wake up, wake up!
ReplyDeleteI’d better hop on my broom and go FLYING far from here before that dreadful thing devours me!
Haven't worked out what horror was in that neon sign..sigh!
Margaret D: Love it. And love your final sentence too. I wonder what scares a witch?
DeleteShe should catch a spell on that neon.
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Dreams can be like that. Nicely told!
DeleteThank you all. Would love to know what frightens a witch...maybe Dracula!
DeleteHi Margaret - Nightmares aren't funny ... I'd be flying off too - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteNot good Hilary, must say I've never had one as yet.
DeleteContinuing the story of Edward and Dahlia. And yes, EC, I will fill in with prompts on here during 2024. All prompts used as usual.
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Dear Edward,
Thank you for the latest email. I do hope your meeting goes well.
I am exhibiting at the Saturn festival in San Francisco. My couple of rather giant paintings depict neon orange and mint green moons flying through a perfect sky. I am enclosing a photo, I am sure you will detect the images behind the calm sky - the horror of war and fighting.
On a lighter note, I am eating a spicy moroccan dish as I write, my flustered server has told me the wind is picking up outside. A storm no doubt. But I am determined to finish this excellent meal.
Please stay in touch.
Yours,
Dahlia.
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Wisewebwoman: I love this - and am so glad that the prompts this week have allowed the story to continue. I would love to see those paintings.
DeleteHi WWW - well done ... love the colour scheme in the paintings ... but the Moroccan dish sounds delicious ... and as the storm is coming here = I rather wish that's what I had waiting for me!! Take care - Hilary
DeleteAn excellent episode in the continuing story.
DeleteThis was great. Loved it!
DeleteAm I getting to that age where waves of nostalgia wash over me? Perhaps. Just the other day I was thinking about my old SATURN, my second car with the shiny hubcaps and faux woodgrain upholstery that looked more like ORANGE peel. Every girl I ever took out in it viewed the interior with HORROR, but when we were FLYING along in the WIND, they quickly forgot their initial reticence and thought the car was quite PERFECT. After all, I was one of the few guys with a set of wheels, and that kind of asset can substitute for good looks in a hurry, that you will surely GRANT me. Whenever I had a FIGHT with one of the girls it mattered little that she left the car huffy and FLUSTERED; there was always another to take her place. Call me shallow if you will, but label them shallower. I was at the local pumpkin FESTIVAL just the other day having a cup of SPICY pumpkin cider when I noticed one of my old flames bathed in the NEON sign of the “bob for apples” booth, two kids and a husband in tow. If only he knew what took place on the orange upholstery of that old car! I’ll never tell and I’m quite sure she won’t either.
ReplyDeleteDavid M. Gascoigne: Thank you for joining us despite your very busy month. I really like this story - what happens in Saturn stays in Saturn...
DeleteHi David - excellent memories of days gone by - so well told ... cheers Hilary
DeleteThis is a very nice reminiscing tale.
DeleteWell done David, reminiscing can be full of detail for our faded youth and times gone by!
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Very funny! Loved this one. C. Lee McKenzie
ReplyDeleteC.Lee McKenzie: I really liked David's tale too. I am sure it was/is true in lots of cases as well.
DeleteDavid had a tale to tell! All the memes are fun this week.
ReplyDeleteRemember back in the 80s when you drove the old orange saturn to the music festival? And when we got there, the wind was so strong it blew your paper plate out of your hands and plastered it against your mint green shirt, leaving a trail of spicy red sauce down the front of it. You were so flustered. I really tried not to laugh.
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Sandra Cox, this is one of those not funny in the moment but funny later events. You told it well!
DeleteReally well done Sandra, a unique take on the colours!
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Sandra Cox: I love it - and fear I would have laughed.
DeleteIf you don't get enough prompters, holler:)
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Sandra Cox: Thank you.
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