Lunaniña has a great and simple meme, Unconsious Mutterings. She gives us ten words to free associate with, even provides the code to make it easy to have it show in list form. Click on that link and you can play each week! My ten responses are below. I had a harder time with the words she chose this week!
- Voyage :: journey
- Patricia :: Potts
- Transformation :: change
- Vocabulary :: words
- San Francisco:: California
- Edward :: Mayer
- Sawyer :: Jane
- Literary :: agent
- Tiger :: Woods
- Seal :: Lion
Of course, those that are regular readers, know I can’t let it go at that! Each week I use the twenty words, in the order written above. (I don’t change her order either.) How do I use them? Either in a poem of a short fiction piece. I wanted to write a poem this week, but those words refused to cooperate — or my muse did, one. So, I present my attempt at a short story using them.
Return to Husband
A voyage meant adventure to Jacob,a boring journey to Patricia, with no excitement waiting at theforeign shore, only Mr. Potts. She expected no transformation, no change in his manner. Living with her husband was like having a vocabulary of no words. There would be no visits to San Francisco again, no California beaches, only Edward dismissing her presence with a nod, as he reached for the brandy, handing one Mr. Mayer, one to Mr. Sawyer, and one to Mr. Grayson.
Patricia bundled Jacob into his coat, touching his still warm cheek with her lips as she did so, then stood back up and hugged Jane, both her literary agent and her best friend. “We will be fine, Jane.”
“I know,” Jane replied with no conviction. She knew what an inconsiderate bore Mr. Potts, Edward, was. She would have risked the rath of all and left him, but Patricia had Jacob to worry about. She lowered her voice and added, “I will sell your book, soon, and you and Jacob can return here to live, in America.”
Not expecting a response, Jane reached down quickly to wrap her arms around Jacob and whispered in his ear, “You, Master Jacob, are the man for the voyage home. You will protect mommy from tigers in the woods. Right?”
Jacob shook his head, “But there aren’t woods in the ocean.”
Jane replied, “But you may land on an island and islands have woods and great seals that dive and swim in the water around them.”
“And lions, too!” Jacob shouted, caught up in the adventure.
“And lions, too,” Patricia added. “We must get in the taxi, Jacob, the lions are waiting to roar for us.”
A big “Rooooaaaarrrr” came from tiny Jacob.
The two women smiled, forgetting for a moment the boring months ahead, on both continents.
MeeAugraphie
08/11/07
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