Friday November 26th, 2021

The exercise:

Write four lines of prose about: shock waves.

2 comments:

Greg said...

Hmm, you're being coy about the hidden theme. Well, now that you've added a few more items, I'm going to go with "obscure allusions to Rush Albums, 1984-2007 :)

Shock waves
"I asked for permanent waves...," said Mavis in a voice that was more of a wail than anything else. Julie, the hair 'designer' who commanded the highest wages at the salon, shrugged with a hint of apology as she pointed at the scorch marks on the wall around the socket of the hair-dryer.
"I'd call them shock-waves," she said, "since the power surge basically gave your hair a bit of an electric shock. And it's not really permanent, it only lasts until your hair falls out."

[Permanent waves might be slightly better known as "a perm" although I'm not sure I've heard of anyone having one in the last ten years or so. Either hair-styles have changed or there's some other way of achieving the effect now I guess.]

Marc said...

Greg - hah, that's a fantastic guess. Wrong, but still fantastic.

'... it only lasts until your hair falls out.' hahahahahahaha