Daily Archives: March 1, 2012
55 – Plenty of Room
“It’s my chair! Get out!” Lucy screamed at her brother. “Not it’s not! It’s Grandma’s chair.” “That’s right,” Grandmother said. “Now if the two of you will move, I’d like to sit down.” The kids scrambled to reply. As soon as she sat down, they scrambled into her lap, one child per knee. Always plenty of room in Grandmother’s lap. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Flash Fiction 55 […]
13 Words
A while back the kids and I played a game in which I would find a word in the dictionary and they would try to define it. Not only did they impress the whole family with their vocabulary, we all learned a few more words, and what they learned stuck. 1. Dirge (This one actually came up on a test over a year later, and was remembered from the game. It was an English class, rather than Music, though.) 2. […]
