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 Alex J. Cavanaugh and can be found here

Charlotte's colour of the month is Dusty Mauve

This week's words/prompts are:

1.visions  2.red  3.tiger  4.desperate  5.Tibet  6.moon

Here is my story:

Plans for the Halloween party were not going as well as expected. It was the first one my son had ever attended, being held in the school hall for safety since the kiddies were mostly five with a few four and six year olds among them. I had been excited for weeks, planning time to create whatever costume he decided on; Batman? Spiderman? Superman? Perhaps Harry Potter or Professor Dumbledore?

He finally decided on Red Riding Hood. “But she’s a girl!” I exclaimed. “Only because the story books say so,” he said. “There’s no reason there can’t be a boy Red Riding Hood. I could wear long pants and boots with the red hooded cape.” Knowing my boy well, I resigned myself to shopping for a red cape with hood and wrote it on the shopping list.

At the costume store a week before the party I met with other mothers similarly confused by their children’s choices. Diane was practically in tears over Cynthia’s decision to be a tiger. “I was so hoping she’d want to be Cinderella or Snow White or some other princess, but she said if she couldn’t be a tiger she would run away to Tibet, how does she even know about Tibet? She’s four!”

“I had visions of my Cathy in princess dresses too,” said Carla, “but heaven help me, she wants to be the moon. Do they even make moon costumes? This is the fifth store I’ve come to and I’m getting desperate.” Sandra suggested enlarged images of the moon could be pasted onto large cardboard circles and worn one in front and one in back, tied at the waist. Carla looked relieved and immediately left the shop.