Drifting through life

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, (sometimes twelve) 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. marksman 2. stellar 3. blindsided 4. indelible 5. crazed 6. imbecile or we could use this phrase: spinner of tales, teller of dreams. I've chosen to use both this week. Here is my story:  Reina McDaniels had dreamed far above her station since she was eight years old. That was the year her Mam had taken her along to the big house to begin helping in the kitchen and wash house. She'd warned Reina to behave, and to be polite if the Mister or Mistress Baldwin should say anything to her. Reina did as she was asked and completed her work quickly and satisfactorily, but inwardly, she rebelled fiercely. She w...

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. calamitous 2. fraction 3. spanx  4. glittering 5. ambitious 6. indispensable and/or this phrase : a glitch in time saved mine Here is my story: "Well, how was it?" asked a grinning John as Mandy skipped in through the door. She struck a pose and gushed theatrically, "oh what a calamitous day dahling!" John's  mouth dropped open and he almost dropped his coffee mug. "What??" Mandy giggled, becoming herself again. "I was copying one of the other models. Right twit she was, acting all posh and pretending to be some foreign famous model, called herself 'Miranda von Dusseldorf' or s...

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. clandestine 2. surgical 3. cove 4. creeping 5. mastodon  6. garish there is also a phrase, "under the mat and off the grid" , which I won't be using today, and a photo of an older style small kitchen, which I also won't be using today.  Here is my story: Billy and Joe were excited. They'd set up this clandestine meeting with Sam, whose Uncle Claude was one of the guards at the museum.  Billy's mum was the town's homeopath and had her office in the front of their home. Billy had stolen some surgical gloves from his mum's office and he and Joe each wore a pair as they came creeping into the mus...