Wednesday's Words on a Friday
On Wednesdays , Delores, from Under The Porch Light , has a meme which she calls “Words for Wednesday”. She puts up a selection of six words which we then use in a short story, or a poem. I’m hopeless at poetry so I always do a story. It’s a fun challenge…why not join in? This week's words are: 1. insinuate 2. method 3. reverse 4. pleasantries 5. donkey 6. darker and a phrase: darkening shadows, deadly intentions Here is my story: Sitting astride his weary donkey , under the fiercely blazing sun, Morgan contemplated the city walls. Within lived the Marcel family, rumored to be one of the richest in the land. Morgan wanted some of that money, as much as possible in fact, and to this end he planned to insinuate himself into the heart of the daughter Isabella. An only child and just fifteen years old, she was far too young to have experienced much of the ways of the world and Morgan planned to sweep h...