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: 

1. cruel 2. return 3. sneak 4. solitary 5. middle

Also including Charlotte's colour of the month: glass blue elephant

Here is my story:

Grandma, I don’t want to hear anymore about the middle child always acting up because she’s “forgotten”, it’s old-fashioned thinking. Maybe things really were different in your day, with the eldest having privileges and the youngest being babied, but what about all the others? Surely the five “middle” children didn’t all act up?

And Lucy is an “only” middle, not one lost in a large family. She gets plenty of attention and opportunities and knows right from wrong. I’ve spoken with her and she admits she knew she was doing wrong to sneak out and meet her friends and very wrong to steal the tiny blue glass elephant.

I’ve arranged a meeting with the store owner for later this afternoon, just before the shop closes. Lucy will apologise and return the trinket, then spend the next weekend in self-imposed “solitary”, which is her idea not mine, so don’t be trying to tell me that’s cruel. She says it will give her time to catch up on some History homework.