It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: alternate reality, shadows, frantic, tomatoes, field, lilies, DVD, snow mobile, aggravation, music
And for the mini: grounds for divorce, pink panther, salutations, wavering, lasagne

A Mega Challenge

Death in Alternate Reality

He created alternate reality TV shows
Including “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”
His DVD of talking field lilies
Still gives one the wavering willies.
His snow mobiles could fly
With music playing cross the sky
Pink Panthers hid in shadows deep
And disappeared without a peep
Lasagna sang frantic romance songs
Cigars replied by banging gongs
His reality was just not kind
How could he have been so blind
Grounds for divorce he surely had
His wife had been really bad
Aggravation filled his working mind
Salutations of the very wicked kind
He saw her dead upon the floor
Reality or something more?

The Maxi Challenge
Bad Dragon DVD

This week I am all upset. I saw a DVD made by one of those alternate reality companies, GFD ( Grounds for Divorce). It was supposed to be a look at how dragons lived in this age. It gave me nothing but aggravation. Those people wouldn’t know a dragon if a dragon bit them and I’m frantic enough to do just that. The show began with dragons eating lilies in a field. It would never happen. We will eat lilies if they are baked and served on lasagne in place of tomatoes but raw, NEVER!
Then there was the background music. It was okay for people in an elevator but it would have driven real dragons mad.
The stupidest scene on the DVD was the winter scene where the dragons simply stopped moving because of the cold. Dragons, I need to tell you, are snow mobile. Snow and cold may slow us down a bit but never stop us.
I have to wonder if the vampires are as upset by GFD’s DVD “ Return to Dark Shadows”. Some day the producers may wake up with vampire and dragon bites.
A dragon can dream can’t he.

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 at 20 words)
alternate reality, shadows, frantic, tomatoes, field, lilies, DVD, snow mobile, aggravation, music, grounds for divorce, pink panther, salutations, wavering, lasagne

Strange DVD

In the alternate reality DVD she married the frantic pink panther who grew tomatoes in the snow field next to the wavering lasagne lillies.
Life was wonderful except for his dreadful snow mobile music salutations which she considered grounds for much aggravation but not sufficient grounds for divorce. So she wept in the dark shadows.

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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.( Because Quilly had no new words this week we dug these out of the achieves)

Life Changing Wife

His acrasia ruined his life
Filled it with constant strife
He adimpleated with his pain
Then he would loudly complain
Like a aeipathy it grew
Not allowing a life new
Lost his big amanuensis job
Resulting in many a sob
A Confabulation changed his life
Took him out of strife
And got him a wife

Raven's Challenge 94

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
Words for this week's 10-word challenge are: space cadet, silver lining, wood, turtle soup, minaret, ice, grease, sales, mandala, mug
And for the mini: broken bones, slide rule, garbage, Chinese, sanguine

A Mega Challenge

Free at Last

The Silver Lining Space Cadet sold drugs
His sales were interrupted by nasty thugs
A Chinese gang gave him broken bones
Under garbage in grease left to his moans
He made the long crawl to the ice minaret
The mosques mandala with blood he wet
Priest gave him a mug of wood turtle soup
Sent him to the hospital to recoup
There he learned to use a slide rule
His sanguine self saw that as cool
So back to college then he went
His old life of drugs he did repent

A Mega Challenge
Dragon Facts

This week we give you useless dragon facts:
1. The very first mandalas are found on the floor of dragon caves.
2. Wood turtle soup is a dragon delicacy much preferred over water turtle soup and often served in minaret shaped mugs.
3. One of your astronauts was a shape shifting dragon . The Dragon Council has now named him Space Cadet.
4. Before humans existed our richest dragons lived in ice caves with silver linings.
5. Dragons dislike foods that are cooked in grease and Greasy Spoon restaurants get no sales from them..
6. Chinese dragons are often born without wings but with the ability to think themselves where they want to go.
7. Our great dragon Imastein invented the slide rule.
8. Broken bones in a dragon heal faster than in humans.
9. Dragons help rid the world of garbage by eating it. It fuels their flame.
10. There is no more sanguine creature in existence than a dragon.
Now you can astound your friends by dropping these into your everyday conversation.

Flash Fiction

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 at 20 words)
space cadet, silver lining, wood, turtle soup, minaret, ice, grease, sales, mandala, mug, broken bones, slide rule, garbage, Chinese, sanguine

Discovery in Space

The space cadet using a slide rule and old Chinese ice charts found the turtle soup planet of wood with the silver lining but covered with garbage and broken bones. His company Mandala Minaret Inc. saw feauture sales of sanguine grease mugs with pictures of the planet on them once the planet was cleaned up.

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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.

Gossips

Incompossible as ice and heat
Are gossips and the discreet
Harl all gossips far away
Before they have their say
Thropple them one and all
Before your troubles they recall
Your pigritude shared with many
Of garbage you have plenty
Your opprobrious conduct made known
Will cause many a groan
At them throw a stone.

Quilly 41

It is a Quilly day. Time to take Quilly’s three words for the day and write a story.


The 3WT #41 words will be: incompossible; harl; thropple (Click on a word for a definition)

Placing his finger on Henry’s thropple he decided to harl him in to meet Brian which made no sense since the two men were incompossible.

If you want to harl somebody who thinks they know everything just ask about the existence of two incompossible objects. They will act as if you hit them in their thropple.

Since the dragon and the bear were incompossible the dragon crushed it’s thropple and decided to harl the body to his cave.

Peanut butter and jam are not incompossible but are meant to be together. By telling you this we do not mean to harl you but we do hope to keep peanut butter out of your thropple.

A thropple and a karate chop are incompossible. If you try to bring them together they will harl you into court for murder.

Quilly's words give you an advantage in a difficult world. For example if you tell someone that you just want to thropple them and give them a hug they will never know you'd like to strangle them. Thus you can use these words to harl together two seemingly incompossible people.
These words are advantage words and everybody ought to learn them.

WE dragons have received another award.


It is from the greatest award giver of all:

Thom

And we thank him.
We want to thank our parents who watched over our eggs for making us such grand and wonderful dragons that we deserve these awards.
We will cherish it.

How Dragons Got

A Picture Story from Portrait of Words

Once upon a time there was a very small dragon that really wanted to be large , but at that time dragons had no power to change shape.
He was told by the old ones that to get this power he would have to go to a far away land
and talk to the lonely old oracle who had existed since time began, or perhaps before.
Once there he needed to ask the oracle where the Castle of Power was located.
So the little dragon went off to find the oracle. It took him two years , seven months and three days but he found the far away land , and the lonely old oracle.
The oracle not only told him where the Castle of Power could be located but where the brick had to be removed so that the gate would open up.
Then he was given the password to get by the bone crushing upside down man.
So our little dragon went to the Castle of Power, pulled, the brick, said the password and reached the tattoed horses.
As the Oracle had instructed he went to the blue horse and asked for one wish. The blue horse gave him this riddle:
What can you give away and still keep for yourself?
The little dragon though for a moment and then said:
" My word"
The blue horse then granted him one wish.
He wished that he and ll dragons would have the power to shift shapes.
This is why to this day dragons are shape shifters.