Friday, May 17, 2019

Words for Wednesday on a Friday 5/15/19

This weeks WFW are hosted by Elephant's Child and they have a different twist in that participants are provided with two photographs and encouraged to weave an imaginary spell on them and see what comes through the pen. Go visit her blog to see what else is magicked and or participate.



An air of foreboding and neglect and disregard surrounded it like a cloud. There was no car to lend it any humanity. The grounds were overgrown and the nearby hills were encroaching stealthily with fingers of heather and gorse and marsh grasses. But the house was solid, made of beautiful stone with rich tiles and solid chimneys on the roof.

Erla watched it from her father's car, craning her neck around until it fell out of sight, drawn to it, fascinated, when he picked her up for his visitation rights on weekends and took her to his condo in town.

She recited an incantation on the first day of summer school holidays and then quickly packed a balanced lunch in her witch's knapsack. Mother let her feed herself - having the delivery man stock up the fridge when Erla left a long list on it, covering all the basic food groups which she had learned from the internet. Mother lived on cigarettes and bourbon, Erla did not like ingesting either although in commiseration she had tried.

Finally Erla, 9 year old warrior, was ready and dutifully left a note for Mother, who probably wouldn't get up until twilight, and hiked the five miles rapidly, approaching the building from across the heather, fearless as always.

As she neared the house, she observed the two tenants of the place on guard. One inside the house, the other vigilant to any approaches on the outside, with that odd dish of magic green stones at his feet.

"Merlin!" she called, "Trilby!"

They looked at her, then at each other. Trilby disappeared inside and then emerged from the cellar steps outside while Merlin approached her.

"Erla!" miaowed Trilby, who was far more talkative than the haughty Merlin, "We were waiting for you! We are running low on the kibble and the canned food is but a distant dream - that lack of opposing thumbs business! Not to mention those unopenable packets of fishy treats!"

"My dear!" purred Merlin, sliding his luscious fur around her bare legs,"We are fading away to skeletons, absolute skeletons!"

And Erla had to laugh, as around her she could see carcasses of field mice and some unfortunate birds. While the two tenants could stand to lose a pound or two each.

"Okay, my friends," she said, chuckling, picking up Trilby who put his paws around her neck,"Let's take stock of the situation in your pantry and I'll manage it from there. But no more bird murders, OK?"









13 comments:

  1. Love this. I know that people often say that animals don't lie but on the food question (and that of attention) I have never lived with a cat who wasn't a skilled fibber.

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    1. Me neither EC. One I put on a diet had his best friend German Shepherd open his window and let him in and eat dog food while vet and I pondered his weight gain until German Shepherd's owners alerted me to what was happening, hysterical with laughter!

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  2. I love this story, while feeling sad for Erla's mother and the two cats who can't open their canned and packaged food, although that's a good thing or it would all be eaten too quickly.

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    1. And cats are notorious survivors, aren't they? :D

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  3. A great story woven around the two photographs.
    A 9yr old warrior/witch?? Now that's a character and a half! Maybe a good one to read about in the future. Magic green stones....WWW we need more of this fantasy 'stuff' lol

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    1. I like her so much I will definitely write more about her. Let's see what next week's prompts are!

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  4. Yes this world needs more magic. I like your characters. Do continue.

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    1. Thank you Uglmore, this series is so great introducing us to each others' characters. I will write more about Erla.

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    1. Thank you Gigi, I may see what becomes of Erla as she fascinates me :)

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  6. Witchily magical this time, WWW! Suits you! Erla promises to be a fascinating gal.

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  7. Yes, I think she's going to reappear :)

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