This week's prompts are:
1 - premonition
2 - onion
3 - temperature
4 - seventh
5 - weirdo
Charlotte (Mother Owl)'s color of February is Glass Elephant Blue. See the color at Charlotte's blog over here.
You may write your piece in the comments or post it on your blog. If posting on your blog, please leave a direct link to the post so we can all visit you. Have fun writing!
This is my last week hosting Words for Wednesday. For March prompts, River will be providing the prompts and they will be hosted at her blog, Drifting through life.
Have fun with these -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
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A wonderful story, Mimi! I love fried onions and mushrooms!
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DeleteThank you for providing the prompts this month. My story will be on my blog on Friday 28th
ReplyDeleteHi Lissa .. thanks for hosting this past month …
ReplyDeleteThe temperatures were too high so the onions were seeding themselves – ah well … she could sit by the glassy pond … watching the blue-green stalks and fronds wave in the breeze.
Remembering those African days – when the elephants would appear from nowhere … amazing how they can hide.
She needed to rest up … she'd had a hip operation, when the ectodermal skin tissue, like the onion, was peeled back for the op to proceed – mind you the scar looked pretty cool.
Now she can get back to normal … and not feel like a weirdo in loose-fitting clothes, who needs to hobble about.
All the best and cheers - Hilary
Hilary Melton-Butcher: I don't know anything about hip operations but it sounds a bit frightening.
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Oh my! I love the setting and the memory, but the surgery? Terrifying!
DeleteResting after surgery sounds smart, but not so much you stiffen up. Nice use of the prompts.
DeleteThanks to the three of you - actually it was surprisingly easy - and at least that side of me is strong again ... it was 11 years ago now. Spending time in the bush in Africa is just wonderful ... I've been very lucky to have spent time there. Cheers Hilary
DeleteMy paternal grandmother was jolly. That was the best way to describe her. She was at least seventy when we attended the town football game one Friday night. It was of course cold weather and the temperature was freezing. We were bundled in the school colors but we each looked like glass elephant blue huddled in the bleachers. I worried about her being so insistent on attending this cold night but she had a premonition that our team was going to win big. Grandma may have looked like a weirdo when she pulled a giant white onion out of her purse and began snacking on it like an apple. She said it was the best way to stay warm. I saw it was the best way to drive away the crowd seated close to us. Needless to say Grandma was right when the town Blue Tigers won 20 to 0.
ReplyDeleteGranny Annie: Grandma sounds like a fun eccentric, snacking on onions, I like her.
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Hahahaha, I love the use of the prompts. I've seen people snacking on raw onions like apples and have to say that I could never do that!
DeleteHi Granny Annie - that's great fun ... I knew what bleachers referred to, but now I understand a little more ... and loved the connotation about the glass blue elephants: brilliant idea! Cheers Hilary
DeleteI almost forgot what day it was!
ReplyDeleteMy take on the prompts is here: Fiction: Premonitions & Happenstances
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Good use of the prompts Hilary. I've had two hip replacements and it does take a while.
ReplyDeleteThanks Granny Annie - it was 11 years ago now ... seems like just yesterday! Cheers Hilary
DeleteI had a premonition that the temperature of the seventh onion would make it look like a weirdo.
ReplyDeleteExcellent take on the words Mike ... well done - cheers Hilary
DeleteMike: This made me smile. Thanks.
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