This month, the prompts are being provided by Elephant’s Child.
This week's prompts are:
Machine
Telephone
Fiction
Delightfully
Trap
Skulduggery
and/or
Groaned
Umbrella
Fertile
Corner
Deft
Selection
LEST WE FORGET by Granny Annie
"This gall-darn machine is simply a work of fiction" Granddad muttered. "I can't figure out the skulduggery it was created to perform."
"It's a telephone!" the grandchildren all responded delightfully. "We promise it is not a trap. Listen carefully and you can hear Grandma."
Granddad groaned in fear as he moved the handset to his ear. Soon as he heard a soft whispering "Jeremiah, is that you dear?" Grandma Myrtle was trying to coax her husband to speak into this long forgotten invention.
Jeremiah threw the phone into the corner. He was not deft in his selection of ways to rid himself of the device. That could not have been Myrtle talking to him. She was out in the fertile field under her umbrella completing the Fall picking. He could see her as plain as day.
The family prayed that Granddad would be better once Grandma could come back from the hospital. She was the only one who could calm him.
Poor Jeremiah. And a lovely (but sad) story.
ReplyDeleteCan almost relate. I am not sure I could answer a smart phone. It is amazing for those of us with all our faculties--well mostly all:) Hope he gets the hang of it.
ReplyDeleteThat was a very nice story.
ReplyDeleteClever use of the prompts!
ReplyDeletePoor Granddad, his imagination must be seeing Myrtle. I hope she gets home soon and helps him understand the telephone. Nice use of the words.
ReplyDeleteMy hope is she comes home soon. It can be so difficult to help those whose memories are slipping, especially when they are suspicious of the help.
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