Microfiction 2
This was another microfiction prompt from 2010. The challenge was to write a response in 140 characters or less – and spaces are characters!
I had two reactions to this prompt.
#1: She squinted but couldn’t decipher the instructions. She always forgot to read them before getting into the shower. Laser eye surgery was definitely on her to do list. (140 characters)
#2: So this was the elixir of life but must she drink it or apply it? And did she really want to live forever in the present economic climate? (138 characters)
I’d love
to know what your offerings would be.
Lol I like them both. Too tired to offer one of my own lol. Baby has been unsettled.
ReplyDeletePoor Baby A - poor parents - poor grandma. This, too, shall pass.
DeleteI like them both, but I don't think I'd be drinking something that I couldn't read the instructions on. I don't want to live forever anyway, just long enough to see my great-grandson grow up. He is almost one year old now.
ReplyDeleteYou've got grand and great-grandchildren of similar ages, like I have. Two of my my greats are older than my two youngest grands.
DeleteI'd have to have a good think about that. I enjoy both of yours though. xx
ReplyDeleteWaiting patiently . . . ;-) x x x
DeleteThe elixir of the gods is so tempting, but I know if I have one, I will have another, and then another. I am responsible for my children's well being and I must hold it all together. I'll just have the one. Just the one.
ReplyDelete(PS I don't know how to character count in blogger).
LOL!
Delete20 characters, only 80 over - veering towards flash fiction. Now, there's a thought . . .
The bottles of laxatives are so big.
ReplyDeleteThe print is small and difficult to read.
l'll sit on the loo, to take it, something
might happen at either end...?
(139 characters, give or take a few...counted
by hand and eye)..
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Nice one :-)
ReplyDelete4711, My Favourite she sighed.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if that's the sort of thing that's required? 😄 x
Alison in Wales x
Oh yes - very nice. Succinct. Micro-micro-fiction - just 31 characters. (I remember 4711. ) x x x
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DeleteAlison x
Drink it or apply it. The bog questions in life!
ReplyDelete48 characters - very good. Another micro-micro or would that be macro-micro or maxi-micro?
ReplyDeleteI particularly love # 1, and I think Alison in Wales is correct in thinking it might be a bottle of 4711. There's still one in my bathroom cabinet to this day! xxx
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DeleteAlison x
Very amusing. I loved them both.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteI enjoyed them both.
ReplyDeleteGoodness! 4711 ... that takes me back :)
All the best Jan
4711, the height of sophistication . . .
DeleteShe poured the elixir in the bath and sank into warmth, fragrance and memories of vows of eternal love pledged by a forgetful man. Surely this time...
ReplyDeleteAww, bittersweet - hopefully, this one will be the keeper;-)
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ReplyDeleteTwenty years younger? Oh no, do I want that, it would make me only 5!
ReplyDeleteI believe you - thousands wouldn't ;-)
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