An antique typewriter Each week, Denise at Girlie on the Edge blog posts a prompt word and invites bloggers to come up with a Six Sentence Story. It's a fun challenge for writers, and a delight for readers. Go over to her blog to read what others have written, and feel free to post your own story, too! This week's prompt: twist. ********************************* The kids who moved in next door were big kids--much older than her 3-year-old self--but they might be fun to play with, and as they were coming towards her, the idea of them being new friends seemed at least possible. She was rather shy, but she understood the basics of making friends, so when those neighbors crowded all around her and asked her what her name was, she didn't hesitate to answer. She thought she had spoken loudly enough, but apparently her shyness got the best of her, because they didn't seem to have heard her. "Twisty?" they asked, and recognizing she needed to be even louder, she ...
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FRIST! (with the accompanying tones of the above xylophone! fa..a…rist!)
ReplyDeleteDuly noted. (Get it?) :-)
DeleteI think every child has had one of those and loved it! Such fun.
ReplyDeletexxxx.... Really, have no idea of any words with X, eXept maybe Xanax. Putting it in a sentence that makes sense though....
ReplyDeleteThose Xyolophone made me stir-crazy!!! Both my little brother and baby sister had one, and being a Highly Sensitive Person myself, I couldn't stand the sound of them!
Is that your xylaphone from childhood? How cool that you still have it!
ReplyDeleteCorrection: xylophone.
DeleteNot the same one, but definitely of the same era.
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