Wednesday's Words on a Friday
On Wednesdays, Delores,
from A Feathered Nest has a meme which she calls
"Words for Wednesday".
She puts up a selection
of six words which we then use in a short story, if we are able.
Sometimes I look at her
words and nothing at all comes to mind.
This week's words are:
1. contrived
2. basic
3. needles
4. downtown
5. spinning
6. seething
Here is my short story:
Rae was close to seething. She'd sent Barry out on some
contrived excuse so he'd be away from the farm when all his mates arrived for
his surprise birthday lunch. A basic
errand, go downtown and pick up a pair of size eight knitting needles at
Marty's haberdashery.
Barry should have been home a half hour ago.
Everyone was waiting on the back porch ready to yell
"Surprise!"
As they waited, the beer and lemonade were chilling in the
icy creek, the cake was ready with 30 candles and the hired rotisserie was
slowly spinning, with the hot coals beneath hissing and sparking from the
basting sauce dripping off the suckling
pig as it turned and browned.
Where on earth was Barry?
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Excellent. A real cliff hanger.
ReplyDeleteApplause .... a good one.
ReplyDeleteBarry was most likely down at the pub starting his party a little early. Haha
Where on earth is Barry??!!
ReplyDeleteYou are going to leave us hanging aren't you? Great suspense!! Good chance Barry could be hanging too when he eventually arrives home...by his neck.
ReplyDeleteDelores; I never thought of it as a cliffhanger, but you're right.
ReplyDeleteManzanita; no, he's not....
mm; Barry is....
Mimsie; okay, I'll tell you all. Barry is still in Marty's haberdashery staring at the large supply of knitting needles wondering what kind Rae wants. Steel? Plastic? Tortoiseshell? What colour? What length? and finally deciding to buy one pair of every size eight needles Marty has in stock.
lol, he should just called home to check. This is what my hubby usually does - get the shopkeeper to ring me.
ReplyDeletemm; that would make sense, someone should tell Barry.
ReplyDeleteGood one! I especially like your description of that pig roasting. I could almost smell it.
ReplyDeleteSusan; I haven't had a spit-roasted anything for probably twenty years. All my families seem to prefer seafood on the barbecues. Maybe a steak or a sausage too, but there's a lot of prawns and swordfish steaks getting barbecued.
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