The diversity of such well written content made choosing one offering from last week above another really difficult as they all seemed equally deserving. I don't know how you manage it every week, Sandra. In the end I stuck with my initial choice and plumped for David s character innocently sheltering from the rain, but leaving us with the killer punchline. That said, I really liked the bleak matter of fact internal monologue of Sandras MC too.
I would like to return this child. Really? What's the matter with it? It gets wet when it rains. You said it was waterproof. I said it is shower proof. Rain is a different kettle of fish. A scattered shower or a downpour. It's all made of the same stuff. Well you can't return it. The statutory six week bonding period has expired. But it's defective. What if it starts leaking? I hardly think that's likely. It’s not waterproof. So leakage is possible. I could offer an exchange. For a waterproof one? We don’t stock that version I’m afraid.
A well argued reason for returning the 'defective' item, Good job the seller was up to the challenge. Prompt words melted easily into the the verbal jousting between the customer and the vendor. Most enjoyable.
As a child I watched my father scatter my mother’s ashes on a lake deep in the woods, and I then wondered if the ashes were waterproof and would float. My father didn’t know that I furtively had seen him drop the poison into my mother’s drink. I am now an adult, and I have just scattered my father’s ashes on the lake deep in the woods. Do you wonder how he died?
The diversity of such well written content made choosing one offering from last week above another really difficult as they all seemed equally deserving.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how you manage it every week, Sandra.
In the end I stuck with my initial choice and plumped for David s character innocently sheltering from the rain, but leaving us with the killer punchline. That said, I really liked the bleak matter of fact internal monologue of Sandras MC too.
Child, Scatter, Waterproof... It practically writes itself...
ReplyDeleteI honestly couldn't decide between David and Terrie. Kudos to both.
ReplyDeleteThe itch.
ReplyDeleteClouds shadow-cast the beach as tide-water started to filter back in.
He’d come because that sickening itch inside had resurfaced and he hoped to be alone: He was wrong.
Beyond the swathe of searching seabirds, a child-like figure, draped in oversized waterproofs, wandered along the far curve of shoreline.
The itch became unbearable as he fingered the crusted, blood-dried, blade in his pocket and walked towards the small forager.
Sensing threat it turned and, in a blur of movement that scattered the birds, hurtled toward him. Its teeth, like his dagger, were curved and crusted.
This was no child.
Quite the unwelcomed surprise, Terrie. Well done.
DeleteThe Malfunctioning Child
ReplyDeleteI would like to return this child.
Really? What's the matter with it?
It gets wet when it rains. You said it was waterproof.
I said it is shower proof. Rain is a different kettle of fish.
A scattered shower or a downpour. It's all made of the same stuff.
Well you can't return it. The statutory six week bonding period has expired.
But it's defective. What if it starts leaking?
I hardly think that's likely.
It’s not waterproof. So leakage is possible.
I could offer an exchange.
For a waterproof one?
We don’t stock that version I’m afraid.
Looks like this customer is out of luck. Well done, David!
DeleteA well argued reason for returning the 'defective' item, Good job the seller
Deletewas up to the challenge. Prompt words melted easily into the the verbal jousting between the customer and the vendor. Most enjoyable.
WONDER
ReplyDeleteAs a child I watched my father scatter my mother’s ashes on a lake deep in the woods, and I then wondered if the ashes were waterproof and would float.
My father didn’t know that I furtively had seen him drop the poison into my mother’s drink.
I am now an adult, and I have just scattered my father’s ashes on the lake deep in the woods.
Do you wonder how he died?
As always ,Jim ,expertly crafted words for thought. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI've messed up again. Use memory, Organise and heart for new prompt words. I should be back home tomorrow. picking. a winner
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