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 ME and can be found right here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. random 2. haphazardly 3. fixation 4. vendetta 5. Christmas 6. hugs 

and/or: 

1. coastguard 2. middle 3. basil 4. carnation 5. junk 6. ladder

also including Charlotte's colour of the month: antique pink

Here is my story:

Lucifer kicked a pile of junk out of his way and dragged out the ladder. He’d had so much fun with the Halloween Party last month, he decided he’d surprise Mr Goody-Two-Shoes (aka God) with a Christmas tree. A band of lesser demons who could be trusted to behave themselves had been set to work with boxes of decorations. But when Lucifer checked on them, they were randomly selecting ornaments and haphazardly throwing them onto the tree with no thought for placement or how it might look. The middle section of the tree was filled with sparkly and glittery things, mostly in firey red, but the top half was completely bare. Hence the ladder. 

“You’ve done a great job,” he told the demons, who gave each other hugs and smiles. “It’s going to look really great beside the hellfire in the receiving room,” said a young demon named Bradley. “Ummm,” said Lucifer and several demonic glares turned his way. “What?” he said. “I thought it would be a nice surprise for you-know-who.” “You’re taking it up there?” said Gordon. “What happened to the vendetta you’ve been carrying on for millenia? You had a real good fixation going on there and suddenly you’re all chummy with the man in white?” He turned on his heel and stomped out of the room. 

The others glared at him and waited for an explanation. “We had fun at the Halloween Party didn’t we?” he asked them. “You had fun,” said Sylvia. “We only got to watch through the celestial window!” “It was a great party though,” said Macey, “it was fun when that coastguard got lost in the haunted house and screamed so loud.” “I have an idea,” said Linda. “Why don’t we have the tree and party down here? Invite God and a couple of friends, we’ll make chocolate lava cakes with real lava and pesto pasta with that basil and hot mulled wine, and we can decorate the room with the antique pink carnations that Mary loves so much.”

 “Sounds good,” said Lucifer. “But first, we need to decorate the top half of the tree. Bradley, you and Robert hold the ladder steady while Macey climbs up and puts the Devil on the very top. I’ll zip up and extend the invitations.” "I'll go and find Gordon," said Linda, "and let him know the change of plans before he stirs up trouble with the middle level demons."

**I won't be home to read your comments today, I'll be visiting my sister instead, but I'll catch up on Saturday.**