Friday 55

Friday 55 Flash Fiction is brought to you by G-man (Mr Knowitall). The idea is you write a story in exactly 55 words. If you want to take part pop over and let G-man know when you've posted your 55.

With a nod to Raven and Quilly
( This week's Raven's words were really, horriblel.-26 words out of the 55) They are -- plumber, autograph,Florence Nightengale, a chill wind’s a blowing,watering hole, sleek, triplets, backwards, surface tension, parrot.Free estimates,French fries, carpet,Braille, silver-tongued bandit

Breaking the Tension

" A chill wind's a blowing over the watering hole" said Florence Nightengale waiting for the sleek silver -tongued bandit as the surface tension increased . "Free estimates on carpet" said her french fry eating parrot doing backwards triplets over the cage bottom. still lined with the braille autograph of the plumber, and inadvertently breaking the tension.

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And Now for something completely different. And we mean completely different.
First there is poetry- written well by a few experts. You know it when you see it.

Then there is poetic drivel- written by many. Lots of fun and often punny.

Then below them all is quivel.
The following is quivel.
It in no way even pretends to be poetry or drivel.
Instead it is something that looks like a poem, uses at least three of Quilly’s words.
In this case it is also a flash 55 quivel since it has eleven lines with exactly five words to a line. Please, again, note this is a quivel it does not pretend to be a poem or even poetic drivel.
Quilly's Words for the week: suffarcinate; spiscious; & tristifical.
Suffarcinate-to load up, to stuff
spiscious-adj. of a thick consistancy
tristifical-adj. causing to be gloomy or grievous

Bad Packing

Spiscious soup in a can
Big bottle of jellied pecan
They suffarcinated his back pack
Going away to the Outback
Tristifical food they carefully took
Tears ran like a brook.
He wanted ham and jam
Not this hitonious old Spam
Maleolent cheese was also there
He’d rather eat his underwear
Pigritude then fed the bear