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 River and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1.shipwreck  2.hook  3.unexpected  4.buttermilk  5.white-knuckled  6.buggy

Here is my story:

Safely anchored on steady ground, the crane extended its arm towards the gaping hole and let down a large basket, a few minutes later it began winching back up and in the basket was Jim, wide frightened eyes in a face the colour of buttermilk, with a white-knuckled grip on the hook holding the basket.

He'd been exploring along the cliff edge with his mates, looking for windblown treasures after the storm, when a section of the earth unexpectedly gave way under his feet and down he went. Dan and Greg yelled down to see if he was okay and after hearing his voice they ran back to Greg’s uncles cabin as fast as they could to get help.

Greg’s uncle called his contractor friend and asked if a crane could be brought over to haul Jim out of the hole. No one else had any ropes strong enough or long enough, since Dan and Greg both said Jim was quite a long way down.

After helping Jim out of the basket and wrapping him in a blanket to keep warm after the shock, they questioned him as to what was down there. “I couldn’t see much at first,” said Jim, “it was very buggy, with all sorts of tiny flying things and the air was dusty around where I landed, but once that cleared I saw I was in some sort of cave with the remains of an old shipwreck and…and…” he shuddered and drank more water before continuing, “bones. Everywhere. Bones and skulls!”

Colin, the contractor friend, immediately called the police to get the area roped off for safety and maybe archaeologists could get in there. This was history in the making! Divers would be called in too, to see if they could approach the cave from underwater and find out how the ship got in there.