The prompts for September are provided by River @ Drifting through Life.
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.
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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.
This week's prompts are:
Charm bracelet
Fried chicken
Teacup
Cage
Plastic
Adorable
A small piece from Susan's mundane life this time around.
These words were very hard to use, as Susan never ever owned a charm bracelet. She was never one for rings, bracelets, necklaces or any other adornment of the body.
On the other hand she loved fried chicken, and often on Saturdays mom and her went to the market and bought a chicken, which she helped mom clean and de-feather. Then dad put into the oven on the wind up rotating spit, making the most delicious fried chicken imaginable. He basted the chicken with his secret spices and oil, mixed with the drippings in an old, chipped teacup, and religiously applied at regular intervals. Meanwhile the mynah bird called Beo, sat in his cage and squawked. Despite the whole family's incessant whistling of a certain earworm of a tune, the Mynah never learned. And they had to cover table as well as floor and walls with plastic, as Beo was a very messy bird.
He was in fact the opposite of adorable, and in the end he was given back to the pet shop to start on a new life away from Susan and her family.
I love it = and am always happy to learn more of Susan's life - mundane or magical.
SvarSletThank you. I hope to write more in the coming weeks, life has been a bit crazy these last weeks.
SletWhat a lovely feast fried chicken would make. Suppose it's a good that they gave Beo back, I wouldn't want to clean his mess.
SvarSletHave a lovely day.
No, exactly, no-one wanted to clean that mess, and as he was unhappy, and would not sing, talk or whistl, that was the end of him.
SletI am so glad the mynah bird was given back, I would hate to live with everything covered in plastic. The chicken cooking make my mouth water, it sounds delicious. a very nice chapter in Susan's life.
SvarSletThanks, that Mynah was one in a long row of disatrous pets in Susan's life. Her father was a great cook, but the rest of the family had to stay away from the kitchen while he created his masterpieces ;)
SletIf he kept everyone out of the kitchen, how did he expect his children to learn after him? Anyway, sometimes certain pets just do not work out well, I hope the bird got a different home and was happier.
SvarSletHe did not expect us to learn.
SletI hope the same for the mynah. Mom handled it - we did not have much luck with our pets.