Wednesday's Words on a Friday

On Wednesdays, assorted people have been taking monthly turns at putting up a selection of six (or twelve) words which is called “Words for Wednesday”.

We have taken over this meme from Delores, who had been having computer problems

This month the meme continues here, at Drifting Through Life.

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.   

Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  We would really like it if as many people as possible joined in with this fun meme.  

 If you are posting on your own blog - let us know so that we can come along and read your masterpiece.

I’m hopeless at poetry so I always do a story.

It’s a fun challenge…why not join in?

This week's words are:

1. provider

2. vernacular

3. subsequent

4. cranky

5. original

6. incredibly

and/or:

'Only she could say "Oh, it's you" so coldly, you could feel the frost on the words.'

Here is my story:

Jake had been such a good provider (in his own vernacular, "I'll look after ya good and proper babe"), that any subsequent relationship was destined to be incredibly hum-drum.
Jillian had got used to what her cranky old dad would have called 'living-high-on-the-hog."

Jake had loved her and spoiled her completely. 

Then he met Penelope, with the giant baby blue eyes and pink pouty mouth. 

He was completely smitten and asked Jillian for a divorce.
Jillian's original dreams of happy-ever-after were shattered. 

She wondered how she was going to tell her step-mother, Clarisse.

Clarisse's heart was so unfeeling, only she could say, "Oh, it's you," so coldly, you could feel the frost on the words. 

Jillian knew that Clarisse would revel in saying "I told you so." 

She'd always said that "Jake, that hill-billy!" was beneath her.