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 David M. Gascoigne and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. solar 2. polls 3. true 4. people 5. indication 

and/or: 

1. celestial 2. temperature 3. concern 4. obvious 5. surreal

Also including Charlotte's colour of the month bright red-orange

with apologies to Charlotte as my computer will not accept my linking to her blog, because apparently blogger loves to play games with people's minds.

Here is my story:

Terrence Berkstrom blathered on as people passed by without listening. Occasionally one would stop and Terrence would think, “at last” but the person would light a cigarette and move on, leaving him disappointed again. Most people simply heard “polls of the people blah-blah” as they went about their business, or “solar flares blah-blah, true indication according to common knowledge, blah-blah, but the real concern is the rising temperature of the seas,”

 One time a young woman appeared to be taking notes as he spoke about the “obvious celestial magnificence soon to be lost to us,” but she moved on too soon to have heard much of what he had to say. One seemingly stoned, or possibly drunk, young person did once mutter “surreal man” which gave Terrence hope that he was listening, but then that man stumbled to a trash can and threw up in it.

The red-orange of the setting sun daily put an end to Terrence’s speeches and as time wore on he despaired of ever getting his message across. Climate change was real, the world was in danger, dying even, yet no-one but himself seemed to care. They remained lost in the worlds of Facebook, Twitter (now called X) and silly games on their tiny little portable screens.