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 Lissa and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are:

 leap;   original;   unusual;   29;   time;

Here is my very short story:

“It’s a leap year kids, 29 days this month instead of the usual 28. You remember what that means?”

“Mum gets her birthday on the actual day of her birth!” said Melissa. “That’s unusual isn’t it,” said David. “but she ages with time just like the rest of us, if she only counted each leap year birthday Mum would only be nine instead of thirty-six!”

“That’s younger than us,” said Melissa. “True,” said Dad, “and because it is an actual proper birthday we need to come up with an original idea to celebrate the day.” “What do you mean?” asked David.

“Something more than just an extra nice dinner and a cake,” said Dad. “Okay then,” said Melissa. “Let’s begin with the most important question, how much do we have available in the ‘birthday kitty’?”