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.
Charlotte (MotherOwl) has selected New Start Yellow as the colour of the month.
This week's prompts are:
- Kiss
- Hope
- Grinned
- Dark
- Shock
- High
- Places
- Fiends
- Friday
- Why
As always, have fun.
Oh I'm first. Thanks for the words and colour EC and Charlotte. All used. Somehow.
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Why, I ask myself and then offer myself some comfort by remembering a distant hope.
The yellowy orangey felon can soar high now but fiends always fall.
We’ve all hit the dark places of despair for he seeks to unravel the good and celebrate and honour the evil.
He grinned as he signed the Afghan children’s death warrants.
The shock did not penetrate the once honest press corps who bowed and prayed to this neon god THEY made.
Give freedom the kiss of death, Black Sabbath Friday has been trumpeted in.
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Looking forward to the rest. Good luck!
XO
WWW
Wisewebwoman: I mourn for America and worry for the world.
DeleteIf it only affected the USA they could stew in their own juices, but the ripple affect will be felt around the world. These are the last gasps of a dying empire, which was never great.
DeleteHe signed death warrants for children? That's just despicable. Good story, though sad.
DeleteGreat job, Wisewebwoman. Though, chilling.
DeleteDavid, Unfortunately, everyone in the US will be stewing whether this was their choice or not.
Sandra
DeleteThe state of the world saddens me.
DeleteOnly the other day I heard someone asking: Where is Lee Harvey Oswald when he is needed?
Deletevery well said, sadly.
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ReplyDeleteAppropriately, on the first Friday of the New Year the New Start Yellow fiends arrived in their millions. They greeted the first human with a kiss, and started to gorge themselves. They delved into the hidden places in our hearts and minds and extracted the dark emotions like despair, anger, loneliness and negativity. Some people had enough nastiness to feed two or more fiends.
They softened the edges of grief but didn’t remove it completely. Memories of the loved ones stayed.
The fiends seemed to get high on the emotions they removed. They giggled as they continued to feed. Why? No-one knows, but despite the shock of the first extraterrestrial intrusion people benefited. Hope sent shy tendrils into corners previously occupied by despair. Empathy thrived in the absence of envy as did kindness.
Win/win. The fiends were happy, and those they had fed on grinned, sometimes for the first time in many a long year.
If only we could find or create more win/win situations these days! Great use of the prompts, and thanks for the hope, EC. :-)
DeleteWonderful, Sue. Extra terrestrial are always portrayed as malevolent beings bent on our destruction or enslavement, but maybe somewhere in a thoroughly enlightened universe kindness prevails. It is in short supply here on Earth.
DeleteFiends that feed on the bad and leave hope behind are to be welcomed for sure. Great story.
DeleteElephant's Child: Not quite sure how to interpret this. I think the fiend here is depression and the way out is to accept and move on or accept and try to find something to enjoy because life is not all bleak or so I think. I don't know.
DeleteHave a lovely day.
lissa: Interpret it any way you want. Perhaps the fiends are depression (though I have never known depression to be kind) but perhaps they are really extra terrestrial invaders.
DeleteWell done, Sue! And a lovely twist at the end.
DeleteA fascinating piece, if only the bleakness could be removed so easily.
DeleteIf extraterrestrials were able to visit this planet: Why should they bother themselves with us idiots?
DeleteHe grinned at the hope of a kiss in the dark, but when it came, it was a shock. Yours is wonderful, EC.
DeleteGood use of the prompt, Sue, tho I'd have to agree with Sean. And a nice contribution, Janie!
DeleteAnd I so like the hope at the end. Fiendish take from you too, but more hope. May the fiends not prevail.
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WWW
This is why I have friends in high places - short workday Fridays!
ReplyDeleteAlex J. Cavanaugh: And if your friends in high places were fiends you would work a long day on Friday - and have to come in on Saturday too. Something I remember well.
DeleteYou two are both so amusing!
DeleteI grinned with hope that the kiss in the dark place wouldn't shock her.
ReplyDeleteMike: I hope you are right. Yay for Captain Succinct.
DeleteYou always come up with something for us to enjoy, thank you.
DeleteI'm enjoying everyone's short and sweets!
DeleteTo quote Carl, "Working on it."
ReplyDeletemessymimi: I look forward to reading your work later today.
DeleteIt will be over here.
DeleteIt was not found...
DeleteI'll have to think on these words until something clicks.
ReplyDeleteRiver: I am sure something will click in the next day or so.
DeleteI might have started this piece a few weeks ago and sort of combined the last few week's prompts. Here's my take:
ReplyDeleteFiction: Stoned thieves, traffic jams & other catastrophes
Have a lovely day.
lissa: I have read and enjoyed your multi-week piece.
DeleteWonderful story!
DeleteA wonderful use of words, a few that weave interesting tales. Thank you my friend, I hope your week is starting out well :)
ReplyDeleteDark fiends may have grinned in many places, these days. They may even go on and get permanently high every Friday.
ReplyDeleteWhy there is still hope despite the shock? They can't kiss.
Mine has been posted here
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