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 Margaret Adamson and friend Sue Fulcher and can be found here.

This week's words are:

1. solicitude
2. rampant
3. toes
4. form
5. knocking
6. pin cushion

and/or:

1. reel
2. grappled
3. perfume
4. courtroom
5. squad
6. general

Here is my story:

Nathan's heart was knocking in his chest and his breath became ragged as he grappled with the rod. The reel had spun out some time ago and he was struggling to bring in whatever his hook had snagged. He dug his toes deeper into the river bank and called for help. He couldn't afford to just let go and lose another rod.
General Matthews looked up from the book he was reading beside the campfire and whistled for the rest of the squad who rapidly appeared from all points of the compass. Advice was rampant from all with little solicitude for Nathan's exhausted state. General Matthews called a halt soon enough, saying the pincushioning of a mate was in poor form, given the state said mate was now in. 
Damian was ordered to take over the rod, Marcus and Jeff were told to get the dinghy and nets out onto the water while Jake, the squad's best diver, was sent under to see just what the hook had snagged on that couldn't be brought in by rod alone.