Wednesday's Words on a Friday

On Wednesdays, assorted people have been taking monthly turns at putting up a selection of 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, with words supplied Olga Gadim.

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 images.   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. broad

2. bewildered 

3. draconian  (harsh, rigid, strict)

4. tie

5. impress

6. helpless

and or:

1. clip

2. tie

3. previous

4. greet

5. attack

6. serve

Here is my story:

Raised by a DRACONIAN grandfather after their parents died, Maggie and her siblings new precious little of modern life.
Strict routines adhered to, everything just so, no excuses for things not done when they should be. That had been their life for the last few years.

"We'll manage things the way we always did, it SERVED us well enough, me and your Grandma, bless her soul, no need to go about trying to IMPRESS others, that's just showing off" he'd thunder.
At first BEWILDERED, the children soon knew that was just his way of speaking, he wasn't angry, just declaring loudly how things should and would be. 

 The girls, Maggie and Jenny, had learned to CLIP hair with the big kitchen shears, TIE shoelaces so they wouldn't be perpetually coming undone to be tripped over, and the boys,  Dennis and baby Richard, had learned to properly TIE their ties when dressing for Sunday Church. Although Richard, now five, still made a mess of it, so Maggie always fixed his tie before Grandpa inspected for clean hands and shiny shoes.

 But then Grandpa had suffered a heart ATTACK and while he was in Hospital a social worker had come to check on the children daily. Her BROAD smile as she GREETED each one of them did little to dispel Maggie's HELPLESS feeling. 

Things were going to change, modern appliances would take the place of PREVIOUSLY loved things. It was necessary, the social worker said, to make things easier for Grandpa when he came home. An electric stove for cooking, so Grandpa didn't have to chop wood for the big old wood stove. A washing machine to get the clothes clean instead of the washboard and the big old tub.

Maggie was surprised that Grandpa had agreed to these things, but there they stood, right in front of her eyes.
The social worker must have sweet talked him good and proper!

Mrs Goodwin from town would be coming along daily to help teach them how to use the appliances.