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onsdag den 27. december 2023

Words for Wednesday ~ December 27

This challenge started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words provided by a number of people.

The general idea of this challenge is to make us write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

 It is also a challenge, where the old saying
"The more the merrier" holds true.

So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

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The prompts for every Wednesday in December are provided by WiseWebWoman, and made public at EC's blog.

For December 27 - today - we had the following words:

Rusk
Spindrift
Ballistic
Troubadour
Killick
     and/or
Mantra
Tuckamore
Whirlpool
Calliope
Catamaran

These words are of a fitting maritime nature. And they set my writing juices boiling. Continuing the story, using all Words in the order they were given, only not Catamaran - this might find its use in the next episode.


Some weeks later they again met at the Unicorn Farm. After Morning gathering they had an unexpected break, and Susan convened the other 9 conspirators in the little room in the attic.

"I found it," she said. "Or least I think I did. My dad loves to go for car rides to little known places in Zealand, and last Wednesday we went to a small coastal town some 20 kilometres from home. We had an ice cream next to a humongous parking lot, quite deserted, as the holidays had not yet begun. We walked the woods and returned to the parking lot. There was a small museum next to the parking lot, and I succeed in getting my family to go there by saying that it was probably boring. This had my sister, begging for us to go there of course ...

"Yes, we know, sibling rivalry," Marit said. " please get to the point"

Inside the museum was models of fisherboats, and the main pieces were old signs, names from ships and that kind of things. One of the plaques came from an inn - featuring a yellow bird that with some good will could pass for a cormorant.

The label told that the sign came from the old inn very close by.
They also exhibited an old rusk - over 100 years old, and paintings of sea disasters and shipwrecks, where you could almost smell the spindrift."
"Susan," Tage said, "your poetic ore is rampant today, If I have to listen to much more of this, I'll go ballistic."

"OK;" Susan said, "then I wont tell anything about the seaside troubadour or all the large and small anchors and killicks in the entrance hall, and come to the point."

"Please do, please do." Tage repeated as if it was some kind of mantra.

"I asked about the signs, and the lady handed me a folder. There I could see that the inn with the yellow bird sign had lain on the edge of the plantation of tucamore trees planted to keep the sand from covering arable lands in the late 1500.

The legend tells of a whirlpool there only opening at certain dates and swallowing ships with men and mice - I think it's only a legend - but one ship - the Calliope - should have survived the trip through the whirlpool and still sail the waters thereabout when the moon is hidden. I think this might be where the treasure is!" Susan ended her tale. "Did anyone else find anything?" Olav asked. "I did not."
The other apprentices also shook their heads, only Fiona and Veronika looked up. Veronika spoke: "One of the very old sailors in our harbour told of an old inn, he remembered, either from his youth, or something he only heard about ... that was not clear. He was very old, hard of hearing, and his thoughts drifted through time and space. It might very well be the same inn, as the distance per boat is not far."

... to be continued


5 kommentarer:

  1. It sounds like they are making progress. I do enjoy your stories!

    SvarSlet
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    1. Thanks a lot, I hope that progress will continue.

      Slet
  2. An excellent chapter and I do hope the old man gets to tell some of his stories and they will help with clues to the treasure.

    SvarSlet
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    1. Thank you. What a good idea to make them visit the old sailor, let's see what happens.

      Slet
  3. I have no idea where this is going but it's interesting about the coding and finding the inn. Maybe there will be some sort of mermaid or unicorn or some mysticial creature at the end of the mystery?

    Good use of the WFW prompts. I honestly have no clue how to use the words though I did look them up.

    Have a lovely day.

    SvarSlet

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