Writing Club Week 4

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[Icy]

Same exercise....10 min., no editing, any genre!

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If you'd like to read back, you'll find Week 3 here:  http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,5022.0.html

[TRConnie]

Slinky.

Connie

[Icy]

Oooo...good one, TRConnie!

Can be used as a noun or adjective.

Slinky it is!

(Remember, photos and illustrations are also welcomed for any of the weekly topics.  Read Week 3's comments about possibly publishing this series of exercises.)

[ira2]

SLINKY

Who goes there in such a slinking way?
Declare yourself, stranger! And quick, I say!
"I am Frank,"
said he who slank,
"and I am off to hit the hay."

 

(And yes, this did take me a full ten minutes to come up with. Winter Writer's Block, yanno?  )

[Forty Watt]

Ira2--you really tickled my sense of humor with this one.  It's going to be like a tune--running round my head all day. 

[Forty Watt]

My slinky's bent and broke and mangled.
I fear 'twill never be untangled.

That's the problem with a slinky,
As situations go, it's stinky.

It may not look like 10 minutes, but it's as good as it gets this week. 

[0whole1]

"That one's name," I said, leaning against the fence and pointing at the half-ton sow sprawled across the hay, "is Slinky."

"Slinky?"

"Yeah."

"Slinky the pig?"

"She looked like a 'Slinky'."

"Slinky looks to weigh more than my whole family put together." Byron paused.  "I'm including my dog in that, too."

I looked over at the pig in question. Some kind of rumblings were going on, but I wasn't sure from what end.

"She was smaller at the time," I said.

[the problem child]

Used to be if it was slinky, I would wear it. Now, it seems more likely to be that if it's frumpy, I'll wear it. Somewhere between 28 and 35, I lost my winter wardrobe. I gradually moved from short, tight and shimmery to velvety and flowing, and then one day I woke up with tweed and wool. 

Nowadays, I sometimes wonder what it's like to feel sexy with clothes on, especially in the winter. I have no trouble feeling sexy in the summer, knowing that I still look good with a tan and kayaker arms.  I have no trouble feeling sexy in the winter, provided I'm not wearing much... But slinky in public seems to have shimmered away. 

[Icy]

No...not my writing entry...

..but a word here about the "Writing Club".

We call it a club, but anyone...anyone at all can experiment with their writing muse here.

Just close your eyes (or not), think about the topic, and let your thoughts flow to your fingers....

Easy!

[VTJen]

"Emme, what do you like about Slinkys?"

They can be any shape, they can go down the stairs really fast, you never know what color they can come in.

"Emme, what don't you like about Slinkys?"

They can be easy to break

"How?"

Like, you can pull it like your friend. It can break if your with your friend and you're tugging. Or with a little brother or sister, it would be like ..."eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-crack" [used hands to show crushing motion]

"who is your favorite slinky?"

You know that dog in Toy Story? I think I have him, I think I do. hee hee hee

[califpat]

Halting steps, oops, walking shaky slinky
Unsteady floor, oops, just a little jinky
So far away, the bathroom door is winky
Got to make it there, have to take a tinky
The vew is blurry, kind of dark and inky
Steady now, oops, a little too much drinky

[ira2]

ROFLMBO @ Califpat!!!!! That is PRICELESS!!!

[califpat]

Ira2, thanks and  your "Slinky" poem "Rocks"! I made a typo. Should have been "view". 

[Lucy]

 I was doing a google search to get inspiration for this week's topic, and came across this (ROTFLMAO )

I don't think the author had SP in mind, but. . .


 It starts off:
 Some people are like Slinky's....

[The Blogger]

When I was little boy, we not have much, but we living with many apple tree.

I dreaming even then of America – where every children has fireplace and Santa visiting all of them with toys.

Best of all toys, thinking little Alain, is Slinky.  Even in European, we singing song “fun for a girl and a boy.”  I beg and plead all year for Slinky.  It walk down stairs, I say.  We no have stairs, Mamma answer.  I no care, I go with Slinky to Church stairs, I say!  Mamma answering we no have lira for such decadent American toy.  But I still want. 

I wash neighborhood dogs and cats raising extra lira, but still not enough.  I hunt in dump for car antenna so to make my own Slinky.  But car not good car and antenna brake.  My Slinky bending wrong.  And never walking down the stairs.

Then, one day, Travelling Magician came to our little town.  He looks very hungry, so I gave him apple from tree.  He about to bite it when he asks me what I wanted for Christmas.  I tolds him Slinky.  He smile and taking out pocket knife.

Knife slowly curling around the apple, to be making ribbon of skin and meat, twirling round and round.  Magician, he talking to me whole time --of strange places he visiting, people he meet, toys children playes with.  I mesmerized by him and hanged on every word!

When apple gone except for seeds, magician do hocus-pocus and making them them disappear.  And he handing me a Slinky – made out of apple!  It bend, it move, it even walk down stairs at church!  It just like real Slinky only smelling like apples. 

My mother so happy she giving magician full Italian meal and send him away full and smiling.  I so happy I played with apple Slinky for days until neighboring dog (who liking apples) eats it…

Sometimes, when things getting tough, I thinking about childhood.  And how magical it can be to be going from town to town, spreading joy and making childrens happy.  How simple to do – all you are needing is fruit and imaginations!

[califpat]

Blogger:
A very fascinating Slinky story. I thoroughly enjoyed it. 

[The Blogger]

Grazie Molto, Bella Calipat!

I also enjoy your poem -- and having spent many nites that way, also! 

[Icy]

Was hoping for a slinky in my Xmas stocking.....sigh, no such luck.  Peeled an apple though!

Week 5 tomorrow!  First one to find it posts the topic!