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Here is a story that has nothing to do with paddle boating, kayaking, or Charleston, but I hope you like it anyway. It can't be over 100 words, including the title. Really, Beth? "You're killing me Smalls."
Wretched Life
by
Joyce Paull Lansky
by
Joyce Paull Lansky
Jeremy followed the tour under a familiar tapestry suspended in the banquet hall. He’d been fascinated by fourteenth century Ireland. Now, he was there!
Staring at a cauldron, he felt certain he'd eaten scraps of honey-covered mutton from the Master’s platter. Worse, he'd slept nude on hay-covered dung while the Lord and Lady enjoyed a cozy pallet; but, being naked was better than wearing insect-infested tunics.
After climbing slyly-constructed, irregular steps that circled a stone column, he ducked under the wall's arrow slit. Jeremy cringed from the memory of the arrow that had ended his wretched past life.
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10 comments:
Woah woah...crazy twist!
who is Jeremy? :P love this!!!!!!!! and the story about the dolphins! you would think paddle boat would be harder to tip..hehe LOVED your pic of the castle too! Ok where is that fence... : )
Voted and tweeted. Great post! =D
--Diana Jillian
I'm with Maggie, nice twist!
Wretched Life is the perfect name for that story.
Voted as always.
Oh, I LOVED this!
(I loved the Sandlot reference, too!)
I enjoyed that, short but excellent. We were in Ireland last fall so I had a bit of a picture too.
Pam
Cool. Felt almost this way when I visited the Isle of Skye.
Awesome bit of writing, completed with a powerful twist. Love it!!
Kathy
http://www.thetruckerswife.com/
Nothing quite like hay covered dung, I imagine. ;-) Good story!
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