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. petulant 2. raging 3. pigpen 4. unidentified 5. bucket 6. ephemeral we also have... "indignant night when first the light of dawn doth break" , which sounds rather Shakespearean to me. I'll put that on the back burner for now. Here is my story: Christy's face wore a petulant expression as she carried the bucket of sloppy scraps to the pigpen . Just last week there'd been a raging fight with Mum about always being the one to do this job. Why couldn't Sandy or Bob take a turn? They were big enough to carry a bucket now, they were eight and nine years old for gosh sakes! Christy slowed as she passed Mum...