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. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

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 to read it and add a few encouraging words.

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

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. privilege 2. cater 3. landscape 4. morning 5. novel 6. level 

and/or: 

1. failure 2. rumour 3. mention 4. matter 5. descent 6. outline

also including Charlotte's colour of the month, luminous bright red.

Here is my story:

“Allowing me the privilege to cater your Halloween Party won’t make me forget you were the principle cause of my descent into hell,” said Lucifer. God turned from the golden railing where he had been enjoying the early morning view of the landscape far below and said, “I thought it would be a novel idea, what with you having ready access to skeletons and skulls for the haunted house section and of course there is the little matter of me owing you a small favour.”

“Yes,” said Lucifer, “I saved that young boy when he climbed that ladder that wasn’t on level ground and you were supposed to be watching him. But where were you? You never said.” God said, “I was held up with a new arrival who couldn’t grasp the fact that a failure to plan was like planning to fail and that was the reason he was now here.”

“Now here is an outline of party guests and which clouds they are on, some of the older angels don’t like this sort of thing, so maybe we won’t mention the party to them.” “Not a good idea,” said Lucifer. “Rumour will get around that something is happening and you’d do better to let them know so they realise it is something they won’t want to participate in, rather than feeling you have left them out of something.”

“You’re right of course,” said God, “I’ll send Mary and Peter around later this afternoon. Now about the strings of lights leading to the haunted house, I thought a neon red would be good.” “I have just the thing,” said Lucifer. “Luminous bright red in skull shapes.” “Excellent,” said God. “Now let’s discuss food. Mary can cook up anything you want, but feel free to bring up one of your own cooks if you like, just tell Mary first so she can prepare herself. You know how she hates sharing her kitchen!"

**Next month is my turn to provide the prompts so you will find them right here on this blog on Wednesdays."