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.

Monday, November 10, 2014

Succinctly Yours #190: Fancily Framed

Thank you to Grandma’s Goulash for hosting Succinctly Yours, the game in which we are challenged to gaze upon a picture as inspiration for a diminutive story of 140 words or 140 characters or under. I wasn’t sure if that was a frame in the picture or not, but I’ve coincidentally been sorting through old picture frames this weekend, so I definitely have them on the brain. The bonus word this week was “gallon.”

Mama thought the new portrait frame was worth its fancy price. The opening was so small, it took five gallons off that ten-gallon hat Papa always insisted on wearing. 138

When Papa won an award, he was so proud that he paid for the expensive, ten-gallon frame in spite of the fact that the award itself was almost too pint sized to see.  134


The one common bond that the really successful people I’ve met have is they’re ridiculous dreamers.  I’m a ridiculous dreamer.  Continue to dream.  Don’t let the reality of the world diminish those dreams. ~Mike Tomlin

10 comments:

  1. You are an expert at these. I had to snicker at the first one!

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  2. I vote for the first one.

    One woman's picture frame is another woman's Whitman Sampler. They're all thinking, "I hope I get the chocolate messenger boy!'

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    1. It's a Rorschach test of sorts. Several people thought it was a book and one thought it was a box containing alcoholic beverages. I didn't know what the chocolate messenger boy was, so I looked it up. Now I want him, too.

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  3. Tammy--You do these super-short pieces so well. The word "gallon" didn't seem like a bonus word. Instead, it seemed like they were a natural part of the word choice.

    Well done, as usual.

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    1. Thanks, Sioux! That's good to know because I really struggle with the bonus word sometimes!

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  4. Great, as always! SuperMicroWriterWoman (SuMiWriWo)

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