A little repost from past year. Happy 45th Anniversary Pops and Mum!
Wishing my parents, Pops and Mum a very happy wedding anniversary!
A love like yours
We wish to achieve
That blanket of life
We want to weave
That unerring faith
You have in each other
The respect that you show
For one another
You’re there for us
Whenever the need
The advice you give
We’ll always heed
If we only had half
Of what you had
We’d be so lucky
And we’d be glad
A marriage built
On respect and love
You truly are a match
Made up above. Ritu 2015
Oh Sacha, you evil task master!!!! What have you got us doing this week??
Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.
Backwards.
BUT, in addition to that, I want you to write your story backwards…!
Seriously??!!
Ok, so I wasn’t sure, word for word backwards? Sentences backwards? Reflected backwards???
Here’s what I came up with, in several forms! And all 52 words!!!!!
Backwards sentences…
The discussion about changing her surname was always going to happen, but there was no way she was going from Portia Peters to bloody Portia Carr!!!!!
The marriage proposal came soon after.
It had been a few years since they started dating.
Tim stared back sullenly.
“Jeez! You’re so backwards!” Portia huffed.
Word for word backwards…
!!!!!Carr Portia bloody to Peters Portia from going was she way no was there but ,happen to going always was surname her changing about discussion The.
.after soon came proposal marriage The
.dating started they since years few a been had It
.sullenly back stared Tim
.huffed Portia “!backwards so You’re !Jeez”
Reflected…
And in case that made no sense whatsoever… The original!
“Jeez! You’re so backwards!” Portia huffed.
Tim stared back sullenly.
It had been a few years since they started dating.
The marriage proposal came soon after.
The discussion about changing her surname was always going to happen, but there was no way she was going from Portia Peters to bloody Portia Carr!!!!!
For those of you who haven’t seen this challenge before, Matt chooses a song, fro which we are to gain inspiration, be it from the title, lyrics or music, and write a flash fiction piece of no more than 100 words.
(Though he is being a little lenient, if you go over he won’t bite!)
This week Matt has chosen Lana Del Ray ad Once Upon A Dream, from the recent Maleficent soundtrack.
I remember the original version, all sweetness and light… this has a haunting, almost disjointed quality about it….
And so to our Flash Fiction piece…
He watched from behind his paper… she ran about, larking with her friends. She looked exactly as he had imagined. Somehow he had to get nearer to her, let her know who he was. Getting up, he tried to saunter over towards her casually.
She was running towards him, looking behind her, and careered into him.
“Oh, sorry!” she said.
“No problem,” he replied, and smiled.
She disappeared back to her friends, but not before looking back at him.
There was something familiar about his face… she had seen him somewhere before… Or had she been dreaming again?
I hope you enjoyed it! (Matt I hope it was worth it!)
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