Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Wednesday Writing Prompt for December 28, 2016




Write a sentence containing the following word: snow

Here is my example:

Nothing ruins the joy of building a snowman like coming across a patch of yellow snow.

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Image from Pixabay.

Monday, December 26, 2016

Grimm Reviews – “How Mrs. Fox Married Again”




“How Mrs. Fox Married Again”

I guess there are two versions of this story.

Version one.

There was a fox with nine tails who wondered how faithful his wife would be. So he pretended to die. He laid under a bench and waited. Mrs. Fox locked herself in her room.  Soon, a suitor came to the door. The maid – a cat – went up to Mrs. Fox and asked if she would see the suitor. Mrs. Fox asked if he had nine tails, but he only had one so he was sent away. This continued until a fox with nine tails showed up and Mrs. Fox was ready to marry him when Mr. Fox jumped up and chased everyone out of his house.

Version two.

When Mr. Fox died (either for real, or maybe this was a different fox) suitors began showing up to woo Mrs. Fox. They were a wolf, a dog, a stag, a bear, all sorts of wild animals. But Mrs. Fox turned them all down because they didn’t have “red breeches and a sharp nose.” Eventually, a fox showed up and she married him.

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In the olden days either suitors showed up at the widow’s door the day they became widows, or the Mr. Fox – from the first version – played dead for some time.

I guess marriage didn’t mean much back then if all it took to find someone was to have nine tails or to be a fox.

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Wednesday Writing Prompt for December 21, 2016




Write a sentence containing the following word: window

Here is my example:

It wasn’t until long after he had it replaced with a new, energy efficient model that Mike realized he missed the soft rattle of his bedroom window during storms.

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Image from Pixabay.