flash 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 not so bad .-19 words out of the 55)Words for this week: officer, candid, drowning, turtles, sugar-coated, prospecting, shame on you, reclinder, luggage, brains, paragon of virtue, cats-in-the-cradle, swamp, sprinkles, garbage

Officer Sprinkles, a paragon of virtue, pointed out that no matter how you sugar coated it the Cats-In-The-Cradle garbage company was drowning swamp turtles in garbage including old reclinders, old luggage, old prospecting equipment, and other old junk.
Shame on you Mr. And Mrs. America, to be candid, if you had brains this wouldn't happen.

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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.
confabulation-To talk casually; chat. or the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.
pudify- to cause to be ashamed
rimestock-old almanac with runic writings

Nancy Wins

She sought to pudify him
His wings sought to trim
a rimestock of ideas old
Left standing in the cold
As confabulation not her style
He’s in her out file
Government Option had to be
To this she would see
An operiment on debate keep
Conservatives made then to weep
Freedom gone like BoPeep’s sheep