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.
Huge thanks to River for providing the prompts last month. The prompts will be here again this month and are provided by Sean Jeating.
This week's prompts are:
- consider,
- rather,
- superstitious,
- paraskevidekatriaphobia,
- table
- bigots,
- different,
- gender,
- hyperbolise,
- teeth,
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has given us Pebble Grey as the colour of the month. If you can also incorporate it into your stories she (and I) will be grateful.
Have fun.
Oh this was fun. Well done on the unusual words, EC and thanks Charlotte for the colour. All words and colour used.
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I would like you to consider, he said, leaning heavily on the table, his plate pushed aside, his finger wagging importantly. We groaned inwardly, Another lecture from elderly Uncle Arthur. His big teeth glistened, a pebble grey from smoking his endless supply of cigars.
There are those, he intoned to the twelve of us sitting around the dining room table, who would rather not call it superstition but I speak to you now of paraskevidekatriaphobia, a condition that is fearful of Friday the 13th. The genders are not different in this regards. It affects all.
I do not hyperbolise. I do not believe in such nonsense. For today is Friday the 13th and here we all are. Lucky. Not unlucky, as some would have us believe.
And with that he took in an enormous breath, groaned a little and died right in front of our shocked eyes.
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I see I'm first. Will come back to read all of yours.
XO
WWW
Wiswebwoman: And of course he was right. Friday the 13th was lucky for the other people at the table...
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Sorry. This is long and dark and sparked by a comment Sean made last week.
ReplyDeleteDr. Donald Dossey said that if you could pronounce paraskevidekatriaphobia you were cured. Trent wouldn’t even make the attempt but didn’t see the need. Friday the 13th had no fears for him. He didn’t consider himself superstitious. Superstitions were for women and other weak minded people.
He had rather different concerns and was happy to lay them on the table. He was sick, sorry and tired of women thinking that they were better than him. ‘Didn’t they realise that their gender made them the weaker and yes, inferior, sex?
A few of them had hyperbolised when someone called them into line forcibly and now there were armies of the ball busters about. And they had the hide to call him a bigot.
I'm working on it. Reading through his prompts from last year, he used similar words and I wonder if there's a way to continue what I wrote then.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, i just checked and these are the exact prompts provided by him on October 11, 2023. Interesting, and I'll go with it.
DeleteWhen it posts, it will be over here.
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