Elena Solodow Means Business |
This is my entry, inspired by the third story here, via the ever tasty Mysterious Universe. It's 100 words long, if you consider hyphenated words to be one word. Otherwise, it's 101 words long.
Gossip
by Elizabeth Twist
At first, Sadie didn’t connect the quavering voice on the other end of the phone line with the spectral, black-robed figure who appeared under the apple tree in her backyard each night at dusk, but the more she listened to the stranger speak her antique words of warning, that Sadie’s lover Paul “knows yer money’s under the floor in the spare room, dearie, and he’s got a wife and child down old county road in Upsala, a girlie girl besides up by the lake,” Sadie remembered the spectre’s raised finger, shaking a warning, each time Paul was about to visit.
3 comments:
Fabulous. You've shown with 100 (or 101) words that writing is conjuring. You conjured up very strong images for me with this, even though my images are almost certainly different from other peoples' - the beauty of writing.
I've awarded you the Stylish Blogger Award, which you can see at:
http://firesidepark.blogspot.com/2011/01/stylish-blogger-award.html
Thanks for entering!
Thanks, Tony! Much obliged. Elena, I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the contest entries.
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