Grandma's Goulash at Succinctly Yours hosts this microfiction meme. Each week she posts a photographic prompt for inspiration and the challenge is to write a story using no more than 140 characters or words. Below is this week's image followed by my offerings.
‘I would give thee all my riches if thou wouldst honour me with thine hand,’ he said.
‘I smelleth him – ‘tis bad,’ she thought, turning away.
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His damp hand pressed her arm. As he drew closer she was glad her bustle saved her from greater knowledge of him. What would marriage mean?
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She knows better than that...Right?
ReplyDeleteOh dear, I just about busted my bustle when I read this, Janice. Too funny.
ReplyDelete— K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
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He sounds like a turn off, poor guy! Stinky AND sweaty, too! I don't blame her for being glad her bustle stepped in. :)
ReplyDeleteHe doesn't sound very appealing (in either version.)
ReplyDeleteSo funny! I expected romantic stuff. Love it.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on two this week. I'm not sure which I like best-both made me smile :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the double laugh! These are both hilarious.
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I always wondered why bustles were invented!
ReplyDeleteThese are great! And how many of us have had to one-too-many-times wish for a bustle to save ourself from greater knowledge of him that is a romantic legend in his own mind? LOL!
ReplyDeleteThe picture conjured up the same image for me as your first offering. LOL
ReplyDeleteBustles can be handy things!
ha, ha. It both versions, her attraction to her suitor seems non-existent.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know bustles had a purpose....
Too funny, both versions. Of course at that time in history both thoughts were possibly very common.
ReplyDeleteHe may be asking for her hand, but it's clear he'd like to offer something else. I enjoyed both the mf's and they went so well together.
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