tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post1496445255668700987..comments2023-12-06T00:48:23.734-08:00Comments on Daily Writing Practice: Monday May 19th, 2014Marchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-41942782720593288942014-05-22T16:54:29.132-07:002014-05-22T16:54:29.132-07:00Greg - hmm, BBQ quail might have been a nice addit...Greg - hmm, BBQ quail might have been a nice addition to the party...<br /><br />Thanks for the kind words on mine :)<br /><br />Heh, I should have figured you'd go with that definition of veil. Well played, sir. Well played.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14952331166517430843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1149217012399643733.post-56255299905322036092014-05-20T03:25:06.536-07:002014-05-20T03:25:06.536-07:00Ah, I thought with a potluck barbecue you'd fi...Ah, I thought with a potluck barbecue you'd fire up the grill and then cook whatever the guests brought! I figured that at least one guest would just bring a shotgun and bag a few squirrels and random birds from the orchard :)<br />Rhubarb pie and Peach Crisp sound delicious though!<br />Heh, I really liked your third paragraph; perfectly put and in just the right tone of voice too. The smell is rather nicely rendered, and the whole scene is just this side of scary. I'm sure it's only going to get worse!<br /><br /><b>Mine</b><br /><i>Through the thick veil of fog a figure slowly emerged.</i> Fog veils had come into fashion about four years ago when the technology was perfected and made lightweight enough to be wearable, and had never really dropped out of fashion since. Why bother with sunglasses when you could wrap your head in a soft veil of fog that kept you cool at the same time as protecting your identity? Why worry about sun-induced wrinkles when you could just wrap your head is a soft, moist and soothing veil of fog? They were just too attractive, and as such had become ubiquitous.<br />As the fog gently dissipated, letting the woman encased in it emerge, the man at the counter flinched, an atavistic shiver of terror running through him. Too late he discovered that that fear was all too real, and moments later he was as still as a statue.<br />In fact, he was a statue. The real reason for the intense research and development that had been done on the fog veils was the intense research and development that had previously been done on Gorgons. Why alert criminals to your brand new weapon, capable of turning them to stone with a single, petrifying gaze, when you wrap a fog-veil around its head and they'd never know it was coming?<br /><br />The man behind the counter? Oh, he'd not paid his parking tickets.<br />Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08503319830584828982noreply@blogger.com