Fiction: Frightened by gnocchi & ghosts (A)

This month's Words for Wednesday prompts are provided by Wisewebwoman and are posted at Elephant's Child's blog over here. This week's prompts are: gnocchi, dynamite, chariot, bucket, periwinkle and/or noticeboard, blunt, bockety, fifty, shortbread. I used the first half of the words only.

~ Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ~

Fiction: Frightened by Gnocchi & Ghosts (Part 4 A)

By the door, Black picked up the broom and held it out to Seventeen. "Take this and hit anything that moves."
    "Does that include you?" She grinned. The broom's handle was in good shape but the bristles had mostly fallen out.
    Black lifted the corner of his mouth. "I would appreciate it if you don't hit me, Miss Seventeen. Let's go."
    Through the door, the footprints led Black and Seventeen toward what might had been the living room. Large bins with bonfires lit most of the place aside from the darkest corners. Their steps crunched under the newspapers scattered on the floor.  Rotten gnocchi were scattered in various areas. Most of the walls had been half torn down.
     Seventeen sniffled. The scent of something putrid was in the air. She was certain it wasn't the gnocchi. Black wrinkled his nose. Not the nicest scent in the world but at least the wind from the paneless windows swept in now and then to ease some of the smell. "Miss Seventeen, I'll tell you why you're here. My brother wants you as my partner and I am willing to try it out. If you agree, you'll get a monthly salary and you get to live in a very nice house. Shared with me and of course, a few ghosts and maybe a dragon.You will pretty much be doing what you're doing now which is dealing with ghosts which I believe is the exact thing you're trying to avoid but cannot."
    "You're telling me this now because..."

Books I'm not reading but still sort of want to

I thought I list the books on my kindle that I am sort of not reading even though I started on them already. These are books that I still want to finish but somehow couldn't yet. It's just so easy to purchase/download a free book and think you'll read it later.
    The problem with unfinished books is that, when you try to continue to read them, the excitement, the interest, the joy, for the book is kind of lost. And then you have to try to recapture that which may require a bit of re-reading. I think if you get immersed in a book, any book might become a great read but I guess moody readers like me don't always get immersed in books all that easily. 
    Here are the unread books on my kindle that I started but never finished but kind of still want to read them.

01 - Never Die: A standalone Mortal Techniques novel (The Mortal Techniques) by Rob J. Hayes > link
Read at: 9%
Note: The prologue was what make me wanted to read this. But after I started reading, I just didn't finish. I'm still interested in reading it but I just don't know when I'll continue.
Chance of actually finishing it: 50% out of 100%

Drama, Please! Fun translations from youtube videos

I have watched a lot of mini Chinese tv dramas, sometimes call shorts as they are short shows that are a few minutes long for each episode but they are combined into long movies. Some of these does fall into the trap of 'no logic dramas' but still kind of entertaining. But these shows have atrocious English subtitles which I believe are auto-translated or machine translated according to the sounds of the actors' voices. This means there were a lot of awkward, amusing, inaccurate use of the English language. Here are some amusing translated titles, character names and dialogues.

Some amusing titles:
(Most of these shows have no titles but they have synopsis for a title.)

01 - For the sake of mother, marry a vegetable

02 - The genius Cinderella and the strangely ill CEO kissed and fell in love in the toilet

03 - After my rebirth, I married my ex-third uncle!

04 - Five babies fell from the sky, CEO daddy, we found you!

05 - My husband is too dangerous! The cold-faced general begs for stickers every day after marriage

06 - Madam, the president is pretending to be lame again!

07 - Divorced the president and green tea made things difficult for me...

08 - A billionaire live streaming expert returns to his hometown, but is called a young lady?

09 - Contractual flash marriage, please queue when the president chases his wife

10 - The boy who secretly loves himself is the CEO

11 - The amnesiac tyrant's powerful strategy for innocent female stars