Writing is like being able to put life into a snow globe. It takes the things that are too big and scary and reduces them into a form that I can put away when I want and look at from a distance. It also takes all that’s good in life and captures it into something I can take out when I want and look at close up and keep forever. It makes the bad things into something I can hold…and the good things into something I can hold onto. Both help so much that I need that little souvenir of life.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Succinctly Yours Week 160: Drawn In


Thank you to Grandma’s Goulash for hosting Succinctly Yours! The idea of this meme is to use the picture to tell a story in 140 words or 140 characters. The bonus word was “subsist.” Mine this week has 135 characters.


In order to get their corsets laced, Amelia and Fanny resolved to subsist on Dr. Snakoyl’s Magic Reducing Pills. Eventually the potion would be known as Tic Tacs. 

I usually use quotes I've collected, but this time I went out searching for an appropriate quote since nothing came to mind. And how glad I am that I found this gem. Hope you have a great week!


A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. ~Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

16 comments:

  1. Dr. Snakoyl? Very clever, Tammy. (And your quote is perfect. Yes, we're all quietly mad, desperate for some mashed potatoes and a side of buttered rolls.)

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  2. Yes! Not to mention a fresh loaf of Panera's asiago cheese bread....

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  3. I missed the Dr.'s name until Sioux mentioned it. Ha. Good one, but the meme was a good one regardless if the name went over my head. And LOVE the quote.

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  4. Excuse me, but I think the position of her hands means she's describing the length of something, which I doubt is a fish. And that would explain why they are both holding smelling salts.

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    1. Good heavens. If that's not a fish she's describing, she needs more than smelling salts. That's a way better take than mine - you should definitely follow the link and post it on your blog!

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  5. I think she's pointing some where, perhaps to the store she procured these diet delights? Diets should be about health not beauty, so I love your quote.

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  6. Funny how differently we all see the picture! Thanks for stopping in and commenting, Judy!

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  7. If I thought Tic Tacs would really work . . . ! Even when I went gluten-free (over a year ago) I didn't lose weight. I guess maybe bread wasn't my problem. Probably the wine and chocolate is the problem. But geez, I can't give up everything! ;)

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    1. I figure Tic Tacs would have to work if they were all a person ate, but who would want to live like that - not to mention live without wine and chocolate? The horror.

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  8. LOL, Tammy, you always have a unique take on these micro-fiction pieces.

    Pat
    Critter Alley

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  9. I loved your story, especially the Tic Tac zinger at the end. Great quote too.

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    1. Thank you so much, "Grandma!" I really appreciate your hosting this and stopping by!

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  10. Like always, I love it. You are always so clever, Tammy, and I LOVE the quote at the end!

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