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 offering. As an extra challenge, a word is offered for inclusion and this week’s word is toil.
Earning pocket money was important. Was there no other way to crack crab shells? It seemed too much toil for so little reward – and it hurt!
(140 characters)
Bravo for the little boy willing to earn his pocket money! Nice take on the photo!
ReplyDelete@Helen - I'd go penniless;-)
ReplyDeleteOh, ouch! Maybe he should wear heavy duty boots. But, then, who wants to be at the beach in the summertime with boots on? Maybe he can be like Tom Sawyer and charm his little sister into stomping on crabs.
ReplyDeleteOuch. I have enough trouble with crab shells when I'm using the proper nutcracker things!
ReplyDeleteKay, Alberta, Canada
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ReplyDeleteI think that doing the crab shells sure beats picking up cans for pocket money.
My grandmother in Oregon took us kids to the beach many times to find crabs for a crab boil. I don't ever remember finding any.
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Love the pic and your attempt. i have to try my hand at micro-fiction.
ReplyDeleteBravo. Any comment beyond that I would make would take more than the number of your required characters.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful reminder of the benefits of hard work.... I'd probably go penniless if this was my task too. Smiles.
ReplyDeleteGreat photo - and toil is such an obliging word, I should put it into practice more often ...
ReplyDeleteIsabel x
When life settles down some around here I'd love to join that meme! You did a fantastic job!
ReplyDeleteThanks and hugs~
Ouch!!! xx
ReplyDelete@Pat - I think he should reconsider his footwear, too;-)
ReplyDelete@Kay L - I'd love to try the crab crackers but shellfish doesn't agree with me:-/
@Jim - hi Jim! It's a long time since I played SY.
@Damyanti - microfiction certainly cures verbal diarrhoea;-)
@Mary - just for fun I counted your characters - 104:-)
@Reflections - there's hard work and there's impossible!
@Isabel - I like the word - not the action;-)
@Sush - thank you, Sush. I look forward to your participation:-)
@Kay - ouch indeed!
Love this! I can imagine the pain...
ReplyDelete@Talli - so can I!!
ReplyDeleteOuch! That's a good one! Thanks for all your commments on the last few posts-just catching up on them tonight!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, I can feel the pain!
ReplyDelete@Sarah - thank you! I've been catching up, too:-)
ReplyDelete@EGWow - I know! What was I thinking;-)
I can say it right back: Clever!
ReplyDeletewow I could imagine that would hurt. Very creative will read you next week.
ReplyDeleteJack and Jill
That would be a painful way to earn money. I think I would try to borrow a hammer from somewhere.
ReplyDeleteOuch is right!
@Friko, Larry, SquirrelQueen - thank you :-)
ReplyDeleteHad to google the translation of toil :-)
ReplyDeletePoor boy. If only he'd have used his head.
And picked up a rock from the beach I mean ;-)
@Carolina - yes, if only!!
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ReplyDeleteI remember Hickory Nutting (harvest days) out to my Auntie's farm. Gunny sacks were filled with our pickings, that were then left to "dry." When the hickory nuts were ready, us childlings would march on the sewn-shut bagsful to easily break away the shells from the hard hickory nuts. Such good and loud fun! I'm thinking this is the way to go for your little crab-sheller as well!
ReplyDeleteFun story-->Thanks!
@Sparkle - thank you! Hickory nutting sounds great fun. Collecting chestnuts or cobnuts pales into insignificance by contrast:-)
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