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. sparkling 2. pudgy 3. goddess 4. surprising 5. wrinkled 6. talent We also have a sentence, well, part of a sentence: "in darkest night, on silent wings of ice" which I won't be using today. Here is my story: Renae stared at the image of herself in the mirror. She'd been pudgy as a toddler, (her mum called it "baby fat"), then pudgy as a child, her mum called it ("puppy fat"), but now she was fourteen and still pudgy . There was a roll of fat hanging over the waistband of her skirt. She'd come to realise that pudginess would stay forever if she didn't do something about it. Taped to...