Wednesday's Words on a Friday

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it.

This month the words are supplied by messymimi and can be found here.

This week's words are:

1. sustenance
2. booth
3. street
4. hint
5. syrup
6. drab

and/or:

1. older
2. cardboard
3. wounded
4. front
5. empty
6. astonished

Here is my short story:

"Peter! Peter! Bring Mary, you two should see this," said God looking down from his observation deck.

Down below:

Staggering along the street, clutching her stomach, Caroline groaned theatrically. “Sustenance, I need sustenance. I’m staaarving!”

“Caro, you can’t be starving, we ate an hour ago,” said Jesse. “Yes,” said Caro, “but you rushed us out of the café without even a hint of dessert. Let alone something gooey and syrupy. We could have got something to go in a takeaway container.”

Jesse stood still and gave her one of “those” looks. “Dessert? After the amount of food you put away?”

Caroline gasped dramatically, “Jesse! I am deeply, deeply wounded by your words. I barely ate a thing at lunch, you must have me mixed up with someone else. And you know how empty a stomach can feel when it has been expecting something sweet and doesn’t get it.”

Brenda burst out laughing at the pair of them. “You can’t possibly feel empty after three ham and cheese toasties Caro, but if you really must stuff yourself like a strassburg goose, there’s a new little pop-up booth just around the corner that sells hot churros with chocolate sauce and even whipped cream if you want that too.”

“Lead the way,” said Caroline and headed towards the corner with Brenda and Jesse close behind. They spied the new booth, brightly lit amongst the drab store fronts in an older section of town and soon each of them held a white cardboard container of delicious hot churros drizzled with chocolate sauce, although only Caroline had the whipped cream as well.

“Now that I have this, I’m astonished at how hungry I seem to be as well,” said Brenda. “Me too,” said Jesse, licking chocolate off his fingers. 

Up on God's Observation Deck, Mary said to God, "we need to make sure she gets that part in the school show, she's quite funny as well as having a good dramatic voice."