Succinctly Yours Week 12

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 photo followed by my offerings.

 

Image courtesy Grandma's Goulash

‘Come along, ducky*, time for a swim,’ he said.

‘I’m not a duck, I’m a goose, just like you,’ she hissed.

(103 characters)

(*’ducky’ is a term of endearment in UK)

Said the gander to his wife,

‘I will love you all my life.

We’ll build a nest together

And line it with soft feathers;

Sweet lavender I’ll bring you,

To soothe and comfort you who

With me will raise our goslings

And guard them against all things

Until they’re fully-fledged.’

Said the goose to the gander,

‘I love the way you pander

To my every wish and whim;

Our wedlock will never dim.

I, your faithful wife will be

And good mother, you will see;

We will keep the pike at bay

And tell our young to keep away

From the reeds and the sedge.'

(105 words)