Drifting through life

On Wednesdays, Delores, from A Feathered Nes t 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, if we are able. Sometimes I look at her words and nothing at all comes to   mind. This week's words are: 1. officiate 2. pompous 3. windy 4. grandstand 5. marching. 6. soup Here is my short story > The kids stood in the cold and windy quadrangle listening to the Principal make yet another of his pompous speeches about the marching band raising money for a new grandstand to complete the sports oval.  Jeff hadn't heard a word of it. The wind was chilling his bones and all he could think about was the hot soup waiting for them in the lunchroom.  If only the Principal would stop his officiating and let them get lunch!

On Wednesdays, Delores, from A Feathered Nest 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, if we are able. Sometimes I look at her words and nothing at all comes to  mind. This week's words are: moonglow stardust dewdrops garden iridescent tinkle Here is my short story. They were sad to be leaving the home they had lived in and loved for sixty years, but the time had come, to move on to a smaller home. Joe could no longer manage to care for such a large garden and Hannah could no longer climb the stairs to the second floor. On this final early morning, for the very last time, they held hands and strolled through their garden as the sun rose, hearing the gentle tinkle of the fountain, watching the iridescent dragonflies darting among the dewdrops, as they each remembered the many other walks they had taken in the past, when the moonglow shone gently on the rose beds, and stardust sparkl...