WELCOME TO the happily-hosted-by-Grandma’s-Goulash Succinctly Yours, a perfectly wonderful meme that picks up where our dearly ♥ departed Microfiction Monday left off by asking the burning question:
How low can you go?
THE GIST: Use the photo provided by GG as inspiration for a story of 140 characters or 140 words. (It doesn’t have to be exactly 140, just not more.) Oh?! *nods an impressed head* You want an even BIGGER challenge?! Then incorporate the word of the week into your flash tale. This Monday's assignment is "nimble," which I chose to skip, since that smitch of the game is optional. <-–Whew! and thank God, because I don't need that kind o' preshah!HERE’S
December 19th’s picture
AND my story:
AND my story:
DOROTHY: Did you say something?
FROSTY: [indiscernible sounds from the frozen solid snowman]
DOROTHY: He said oil can!
SCARECROW: Oil can what?
DOROTHY: Oil can.
SCARECROW: (leveling with Frosty) Forget it, little friend. Tin Man goo’s not gonna do you any good.
DOROTHY: (distressing over ultra-frigiddy Frosty’s stock-still state) If only he had an Auntie Em to take care of him.
SCARECROW: Correction, Dot, Auntie Freeze.
(word count: 68)
FIVE more WORDS:
Get it? Got it? Good!Go ahead, groan if you have to-ly yours,
SparkleFarkle~~~~~*
Rest in peace, my Mollo and Zuzie.
13 comments:
LOL Made me laugh. Good one.
Great play on words. I'm wondering why Frosty wants to melt. Is he depressed in this wintry season?
Good one LOL
Sparkle, do you remember Oil Can Do?
A squirt of oil turned him yellow. Yellower than yellow snow generally is!
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Sonia Lal said, "LOL Made me laugh. Good one."
To which SparkleFarkle replies: Thanks, Sonia Lal! I just got back from making The Rounds (<--reading other Succintly Yours participants' takes). Your this week's narrative is quite the macabre-Merry Christmas fun! What a holiday stress-breaker, I must say! LOL!
Pat said, "Great play on words. I'm wondering why Frosty wants to melt. Is he depressed in this wintry season?
To which SparkleFarkle replies: Sorry, I guess my attempt to preface (Wizard of OZ images depicting a stand-stilled Tin Man, and then him being oiled by Dotty and a strawed Ray Bolger, so that his I-Can't-Move situation can be remedied) Frosty's (and my) reasoning failed. Noever fear, here's the gist: Frosty got a smitch too, too frosty, causing him to freeze in place, just like the Tin Man's "frozen" condition when Dorothy and the Scarecrow found him --only his was due to rust.
So, when Miss Gale and her companion came upon Frosty (Yes, I know this actually never happened in L. Frank Baum's Emerald Greeny story, but you have to remember this is the SparkleFarkled version, so humour me already. LOL!), readers witness a stiffened yet also fool-hearty Frosty trying to say the same words the Tin Man said, because "If it (<--oil in the oil can) worked for the Canned Man, it'll work for me!"
But that activity is not-gonna-happeny. In no uncertain terms, the Scarecrow is quick to point that out to the snowman, but kindly offers up a solution: a "visit" with "Auntie Freeze" (antifreeze)! A mere squirt or two (like oil to a Tin Man) should successfully give him the "melting moment" needed to thaw him <--the "just enough" so he can move again.
95! Whew! That was close. Thank God I'm still under the 140-word limit!
Haha...Auntie Freeze. Classic! I love the Sparkle-isms. Great one. Thanks for the laugh!
Dorothy and Jack Frost.. I can see the beginnings of a new story to make up for my daughter who loves the Wizard of Oz.:)
Hey, Lisa, glad you could make a stop-by! I loved your SY entries this week! Frosty truly had us all thinking, didn't he? Did you know he was also the inspiration behind the Snow Cone? Yeah, it's true.
Lady in Read said, “Dorothy and Jack Frost. I can see the beginnings of a new story to make up for my daughter who loves 'The Wizard of Oz.' :)"
To which SparkleFarkle replies: Hi, Lady in Read (<--love that play-on-wordsy name!), and welcome! It was nice of you to come pay a visit my way. My daughter, Puppet, is passionate about The Wizard of OZ, too. And, yeah, I could see Dot and Frosty making memories in E-city. Can you imagine what that poppy field scene would be like? Frosty'd have a field day!
Auntie Freeze? I did groan, but I'm still laughing. :D Good one, Sparkle.
Hi, Grandma, I was hoping you'd be by! Sorry about the groans. Fortunately, they will soon be replaced with the holiday spirit-y and things that go sugar plum fairy-y in the night! Merry Christmas!
Hey Sparkle....I seem to be late in stopping by, but better late than never as the old saying goes. Very funny stuff...and I, too, loved Auntie Freeze!
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