I’m extremely late today, I have been in Devon in a tiny tinny caravan, walls of paper thickness and the slightest sound magnified. With the kids and us 2 it was pretty close. I’ve just driven back 7 hours up the motorway, and come to think of it I think i’ve used this excuse before, I must try harder. So thanks to the supreme Rochelle for setting this one up again and thank you to my piano teacher’s name sake Susan Eames, for the tropical photo, I could have gone there and got back home in the same amount of time!
The idea is to write a piece of fiction or otherwise with a beginning, a middle and an end inspired by the photo, which is what I’ve been doing for what seems like ages, in a good way.
Anyway enough of this drivel.
On My Marks…
Get Set…
GO!!!
It had been a long time since Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, in fact the amount of clumps of grass had diminished in the decades following the floods.
The factory cattle used to manufacture Curds and Whey had all since suffered the dark idle fate of a veal cow.
Distantly related Muffets in the Caribbean now had to take to the trees to avoid the giant aquatic spiders which roamed the shallow waters which covered the once grassy cricket pitches of the tropics. The C&W cravings, satisfied with synthetics ordered via mobile, delivered by anti arachnid armoured Piraguas.
100 words written in a post traffic jam fugue, enjoy my Friday Fictioneers Friends. Bet I’m about number 90 today, which means no one will read my stuff. Balls!
The Count Of North Clifton 
I would love to live in the Carribean, I’ve been there a few times and Piraguas taste great, once bar-b-qued.
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A bit creepy – well done!!!
DB McNicol
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Loved C&W cravings
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Well I read it and enjoyed it! Great imagination – loved it. (p.s. it took two twelve hour flights to get from London to Fiji when I lived there.)
Susan A Eames at
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I came, I read, and I’m off at a run… Enjoyed the story.
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h my. From sweet, innocent Miss Muffet to “anti arachnid armoured Piraguas.” All in 100 words. Amazing.
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That was fun. I had to google piragua, I thought it was a fish, sounds so similar to piranha, LOL.
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Those spider infested waters are worrisome, with ever so many opportunities for a fright. Great reimagined nursery rhyme.
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Dear Shrawley,
Giant aquatic spiders sound beyond dreadful to me. I would want to get as far from them as possible. Good one. Sorry about the traffic jam. Hope you’ve recovered from the ordeal.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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There’s just so much traffic these days! Thanks for reading Rochelle!
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Even Miss Muffet has to survive after the apocalypse. I love that there seems to be a whole tribe of C& W addicted Muffets. What a fun idea.
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Thanks, one has to laugh in the face of adversity!!
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A bleak look at the future Muffet world.
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Good story and well written, Shrawley. I don’t hate spiders but wouldn’t want to fight big ones off either. I don’t think I’d like that future. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Way to go, Shrawls. C & W cravings and giant spiders and all!
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Things went from bad to worse, except for the C & W cravings. 🙂
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They did didn’t they, not unlike everything that is happening in the world today!
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