Writing Prompt for Wednesday Stories 4/26/17
Our lovely host, Debb, from Inner Sunshine provides our prompts and today we settle back into one of our more common prompts. Use all five words and both pictures. (500 word limit) Have fun!
chips * chimp* bow* dinosaur*
nursery*
Here is my story:
Hi Colleen,
Well at last I have a chance to email you and let you know
how things are. I think you can tell
from my tone it could be better.
Yesterday we thought we would explore the town a bit. I now have sore feet and an aching back from
all the walking we had to do to retrace our steps as we got lost. I mean there were the street signs and we
still couldn’t get it right.
No maps for Jeffrey, oh no.
He acted like a naughty chimp
at a tea party, harrumphing and acting up when his GPS on his phone died. Well that didn’t die but he hadn’t charged
the blooming thing the night before so the battery failed.
Eventually we found some shops …… I know I should have been
happy but just look at what he pointed out to me. I took a picture on my phone (when his back
was turned so he wouldn’t ask me to use my phone for directions).
He knows I detest the colour red. Even if he packaged the tea set up in a box,
wrapped a pretty ribbon and bow round
it, I still wouldn’t be pleased. The
pottery itself is quite nice. I like the
shape of the tea cups but, come on, I mean, red with white polka dots, that
fashion went out with the Ark, no wait a minute, probably went out as the last dinosaur roamed the earth before its
extinction.
Oh well I dare say he meant well.
Now I’m sitting alone in this tiny apartment, drinking
coffee (I can’t find a decent packet of tea leaves anywhere) and eating crisps,
or as my new friends here call them chips.
You and I both know chips come from a chip shop usually with
a piece of battered cod or plaice, but here they are called something
different. So much for speaking the same
language.
Jeffery has had to go to a meeting to finalise his start
date and I’m left here on my own. The
apartment (or flat as we’d probably say) is small, adequate enough for now but
……. I’m going to let you in on a BIG SECRET, ssshh, don’t tell anybody yet,
especially not my parents, in a few
months time we are going to need somewhere bigger with another bedroom to
transform in to a nursery.
There, I’ve said it.
My secret is out, I’ve hugged
this to myself for a few days now and all I have to do is find the right time
to tell Jeffrey. I’m not sure whether
he’ll be over the moon or ……….
It certainly wasn’t in this five year plan he made of moving
to the USA where the opportunities are better and bigger.
Whatever, I’m sure we’ll cope.
It’s quite frightening, Colleen, I’m going to be a mum. Now, do stop laughing. I can be responsible if I want to. I’ll just have to not party so hard. I’ll still work, of course I will. We can get a nanny or an au pair or something. It won’t disrupt our lives much. I’m sure of it.
Oh, I hear Jeffrey’s key in the lock. I’ll sign off now and hope to speak to you
soon. We’ll have to work out the time
difference and Skype each other at the weekend.
I miss you.
Love
Eleanor.
These "use all 5 words" challenges always blow my mind. Here again, you make it seem so easy that now I can't imagine another story working as well. This one is delightful and so upbeat.
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