Well, I was trying to write something early today, but pesky work and lethargy in front of the fire, which I think still has that evil paint on which makes you sleepy, might have affected my judgement. So thanks to the stateliness of the wonderful Rochelle who keeps these things together, once again the FF can rise above the catastrophe that is the government’s response to the plague. Interesting photo from CEAyr so thinking cap on…
On My Marks…
Get Set…
GO!!!
She remembered when the paving glistened with ice; the frigid rain would fall and form rivulets in the patterns, gradually slowing as the night extended towards the witching hour, before finally crystallising into a gelid stencil.
The land varnished in an algific laminate for months on end. And then came the thaws, where the rivers ran in torrents, an outpouring of life giving elixir, colourising the meadows as the insects busied themselves harvesting pollen for our bounty in the months to come.
That was before the devastation of our actions was understood. All that remained was dust and petrified shadows.
Bloody hell, that was cheerful wasn’t it! 100 words on the nose, fingers crossed this is not what the future holds.
The Count Of North Clifton 
Nasty scary exactly because it’s believable
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Watching the news tonight its closer than we realise I think!
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Maybe we’ve learned to listen to warnings about entirely predictable catastrophes. Maybe we’ve learned again to look at evidence. Maybe
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That effort was A1
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Well thank you kind sir
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I love the poetic feel to this story. The planet is precious!
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Thanks, I swallowed a thesaurus!
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That’s the secret… it’s time for me to chew 😀.
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Honestly, I love this story. It did help me learn a few new words, and also the moral is beautiful. ❤
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I learnt the words as I went, that’s what a thesaurus is for!! Sometimes it’s good to go down the “T-hole”!!! Thanks for reading
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Exactly! I could pour hours and hours over the dictionary… ❤
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We’re mucking it up good aren’t we 😦
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A very literary offering this week. Well done.
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Hefty sentences. The first para is one sentence but it flowed poetically. Who knew apocalypse could sound so poetic.
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Wow! Thank you so much, that’s the name of the game isn’t it?
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Really cheerful! Then again the universe has a way of continued existence, it just doesn’t care.
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I was really enjoying that then you went and spoilt it! Excellent take though!
My story!
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It was nice there for a moment. I should have known you better by now, you couldn’t just leave it that way!
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Yes bleak and bitter as ever. Happy endings depress me
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Dear Shrawley,
If your story comes true we’ll have only ourselves to blame. Well penned. I think I could use a glass of wine to cheer myself up. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle, I think since the virus really took hold my FFs have been pretty bleak, must say something about my mood I guess. Bring on the vaccine, although to be fair I’m way down the list so I doubt I’ll be much before summer for the needle
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Lookit us side by side this week!
Your use of the thesaurus was outstanding and I have to agree, very poetic and hopefully not prophetic! (though we are doing our best to make it happen, eh?)
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Dark, and yet somehow optimistic. Well done.
And thanx for the word ‘algific.’ My favorite dictionary site doesn’t know it. I had to do some research – which thrills me. It may become one of my future Word Of the Week posts. 🙂
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Wow!! High praise! I’ll check out your word of the week posts too. I’m afraid I love getting into the thesaurus, wish I could say I knew the word before but weirdly it rang a distant bell somewhere, a lost memory or merely imagined?
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Beautifully written (once I’d done enough Googling to satisfy myself you weren’t making words up!).
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Thanks I fell down the thesaurus hole!! But I find it relatively satisfying to do so
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i wanted to believe life will somehow begin anew. hope springs enternal.
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It’s rather icy here tonight, one can not change nature. I enjoyed the way your writing flowed
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Thanks very much Michael, thats really appreciated from my end!
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Great imagery. I love the last line.
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Thanks very much
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