Friday October 30th, 2020

The exercise:

Write four lines of prose which have something to do with: handle with care.

2 comments:

Greg said...

Ah, does this prompt mean that the drunken birthday celebrations are over and you've woken up at the start of a week-long hangover? ;-)

Handle with care
Jenny wears tin-foil hair-curlers so as to keep the spy satellites from reading her thoughts, a dirty dressing gown with no buttons and no belt that serves her as a coat, a skirt that barely reaches her knees and a crop top that doesn't reach her midriff. Which bulges a little over the waistband of the skirt and makes you think of bread-dough rising on a counter somewhere. She's an informant of sorts, when you can get through the conspiracy theories and the paranoia, which is why I think of her as being Handle with care.
"Hi Mac," she said, looking at me as though I was three-day old roadkill after the vultures and vulture-bees were sick of me, "God says she going to send cleansing fire to sort you out."

Marc said...

Greg - hah, not likely.

That is one hell of a description. I hesitantly say that I'd like to hear more from Jenny.

Preferably from a safe distance.

Vulture bees still make honey? Uh, no thank you.