My Words For Wednesday story
LIKE A PENDULUM DO by Granny Annie
The pendulum on the wall clock stopped swinging. It was time to wind the antique. Yes, it was seven o'clock pm which was when it always stopped. We had found this timekeeper while scavenging the abandoned house on the hill. Everyone told us the house was haunted and not to take anything from it.
Why couldn't we have found a nice clock with a cuckoo bird popping out to strike the hour? No, we had to have one with a wax raven that would fly out on a spring and scream the hour.
This activity, of course, delighted our grandchildren. I loved to make up tales for them about this crazy chronometer. They would beg me, “Grandma, tell us a tingler.” I would then usher them to the fireplace where we would sit in a circle and I would open my diary containing stories of the many invisible spooks, ghosts and goblins that were forever locked inside the vintage timepiece.
Go HERE to see the words for today and for the picture Cindi provided plus links to other stories or the ones completed in the comment section.
This is great...so simple and yet so captivating.
ReplyDeleteWonderfully done! I love the clock!
ReplyDeleteYou are truly amazing...
ReplyDeleteGreat Halloween short! ;-)
ReplyDelete...like your use of the word "tingler" and also your alliteration on "crazy chronometer." :)
ReplyDeleteExcellent story Annie, I love how you tied all of the words into a great story.
ReplyDeleteLove this. Great use of the prompts, and I would have love to have been sitting on the floor to hear the stories.
ReplyDeleteLove the story and the graphic, most appropriate for the time.
ReplyDeleteTerrific. You have honed this skill!!
ReplyDeletePerfect Halloween story. Tingler describes most of your stories.
ReplyDeleteI love this:) You carried the Halloween theme without being at all scary. I can just picture all the littlies sitting around your feet, eyes wide with excitement, little tingly shivers down their backs.
ReplyDeleteI'd love a big old grandfather clock, but would need a suitable house. Something large and not haunted.
Really fun and interesting story dear Annie!
ReplyDeleteI still love the clock with bird lol
your photo gave me fright,oooh!