Wednesday, October 31, 2007
3WW LIX
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Hopefully, this week's words will be a treat.
Welcome to Three Word Wednesday. Each week, I will post three (or more) words. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write something using all of those words. It can be a few lines, a story, a poem, anything. I'll also attempt to write something using the same words.
Leave a comment if you participate. Many fun and interesting people might visit your blog.
This week's words are:
Phone
Stumbled
Windy
You never realize how ear-splitting the ringing of a phone can be until it rings in the middle of the night, piercing the formerly silent darkness and causing the mind to race and the heart to pound.
Kari fumbled around on the nightstand until she felt the phone. She didn't recognize the number. She looked at the clock. It was 2:18. She sat the phone back down.
Out wasted again, she thought to herself. Needing a ride. Or needing money for bail.
He called again. And then a third time. She fought the urge to answer, then waited for a fourth call. But it never came.
She lied awake wondering if he would get a ride, if he would have a place to sleep. A tree brushed against the house, reminding her the night was chilly and windy. The urge to give in one more time was continuous. But he had gone too far. He had pulled a knife on her. He was out of control.
Still there was no satisfaction in knowing she had made the right decision. She wasn't even sure she had. The only thing she felt at that moment was pain. Immense, unbearable, sleep-depriving pain.
Miles away, he stumbled out of a phone booth and sat down on the pavement. Out of change, tired, weary, but completely sober for nine days and twenty-two hours.
"I haven't had a drink in nineteen days. My eyes are clear and bright without that haze..."
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"I struggle sometimes to find the words. Always sure until I doubt. Walk a line until it blurs. Build walls too high to climb out..."
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I have much going on in my personal life, so....
Happy Halloween!!!
But it not like last time, I promise!
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pencil stub
or cut/paste http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2007/10/pencil-stub-3ww.html
http://greengrassramblings.blogspot.com/2007/10/3ww-phone-stumbled-windy.html
This is my last 3WW until December - I'm doing the NaNoWriMo thing. Keep on writing!
Be good while I'm gone, Bone. *grin*
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Happy Halloween!
My story today is called "Turn Back! and is scary but not horror.
Rose
xo
Phone Stumbled Windy
-charles
3WW
--Gay
http://www.herburban.com/?p=2451
"dried roses"
3WW
*A Goblin's Invitation*
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Joys Of Winter
I will try to get something done, or at least I will have a peek at all the others sites!
Have a great night! Not too much chocolate!
here is mine
SeeingISaw
Can't wait to read yours. Can I get an advanced copy?
Sylvia's Neverland
http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2007/10/transplant.html
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The Transplant
"Prank Call"
Hope it worked.
Michelle
http://a-mus-ing.blogspot.com/2007/10/strangers-in-night.html
Happy Halloween!!!!
Christy
story
I won't be around until sometime tomorrow night to read everyone's :)
http://scrunchydumpling.blogspot.com/2007/11/three-word-wednesday.html
Walking home
Bone, I can't tell you how much I look forward to these prompts. Thanks for keeping this thing going. And thanks to all the contributors for being a part of this virtual community.
Here's mine for LIX:
JESUS AT THE SHAMROCK TAVERN
I'll try to be around to read everyone's soon.
Sounds very noir. Great edge
Tells a great story--and someplace many of us have been
I love how she's so intent on thinking what she knew to be the truth,
and he's living what she wanted, but in dire circumstances
*****
I will probably get to the blogs I missed on Monday--hope to be able to
Still there was no satisfaction in knowing she had made the right decision. She wasn't even sure she had. The only thing she felt at that moment was pain. Immense, unbearable, sleep-depriving pain.
This was amazing, Bone. Very heartwrenchingly (I swear it’s a word!) beautiful. The ending about broke my heart, as I sat there, wishing there had been some way for the two of them to reach a happy ending that wasn’t meant to be. I could quote some cheesy 80’s song about love not being enough, but I wouldn’t do anything like that O:)
I really enjoyed your story this week. Thanks for participating in 3WW: it has to get a little old having done it for... uh... LIX weeks. :)
I like the preacher from the Church of Christ. Sorry that I cried when I talked to you last night…
Herb Urban: Thanks. I was definitely hoping to create empathy for both characters.
TC: Thank you. I was trying to show two different sides of the same story.
Cheesy 80's song lyrics are always welcome on this blog, by the way :)
Truefaith: Thanks. It may be too late for "them" but hopefully not him.
Lesley: Thank you. Yeah, I was trying to leave some of it open to the reader's interpretation.
UL: Thank you. I agree. As long as he's still breathing, it's not too late to change.
Sage: Thanks for participating.
Lightheaded: Maybe I could write fables :) Hey wait, didn't that boy get eaten by the wolf?
Made me sad for him (cause I accidentally read the last paragraph first) until I got to the part where he pulleda knife on her.
3WW's that make you FEEL a certain emotion are always great.
♥
Hope you have a great weekend and I'm sure you won't be rooting for the Tigers today. :P
Rose
xo
Are they husband/wife, girlfriend/boyfriend or father/daughter? Will he find a way to get to her and prove that he's sober? Will love prevail or addiction?
It's difficult, week after week, word grouping after word grouping to keep the fiction fresh and interesting. Thank you for doing such a good job of it.
You definitely drew me in, though.
Michelle
Even when the end reveals his change of heart, and it's too late, you still want to go "good girl for standing your ground".
Thank you for this week's challenge, I wasn't ready for what would come from my fingertips.
especially the end... he is finally sober and gets the smack in the face! You can so totally feel both of their pain!
Hope you had a great weekend!
I've finally posted.
Great story, but I see her side.