kittypaws
11-30-2010, 12:20 AM
Here is the prompt...
One day, you are out in your yard when the next-door neighbor's garden gnome suddenly walks over and starts telling you about "what is really going on." Write this scene.
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I was busy watering my gardens when low and behold the gnome from Sally’s garden appears beside me. I dropped the hose in surprise, I didn’t know they could actually move; I always thought someone stole them! I was even more stunned when this small creature with his pointed red hat and awful smelling pipe spoke!
“Do you really know what is going on?” His teeth were like broken chalk and his beard stained from mud
Dumfounded I stared.
“They are selling ‘stuff’ over there! Every evening the ladies run in and then out with packages they cling tight to their chest! I believe they are smuggling in elves!” his cheeks grew bright red.
“Do you know what that means?” His deep brown eyes reaching up to search mine.
I must admit I stuttered, still astonished “No, I am afraid I don’t.”
“Well I will tell ya lass!” he began while he puffed on his smokeless pipe and paced back and forth.
“It means that soon the gardens and woods will be taken by elves and they will be playing their tricks…beware, I have seen some of these elves they are smuggling in and they be nasty looking ones!”
I couldn’t help but giggle….
“You wait and see! And remember it was I who warned ya!” He called back over his shoulder as he lay back down in Sally’s garden.
About a week went by and I kept eyeing up the gnome and thought perhaps I had lost my mind; then it happened. Sally knocked at the door and asked me if I wanted to come over to visit…she had something to share with me.
Sally was recruiting women to be Santa’s Elves at a Gala Ball to be held at the local pub and the gnome was right! Some of them were pretty nasty looking! I politely refused and left with a smile on my face and as I passed the gnome in her garden, I reached down and patted him on his pointed hat. He winked.
kittypaws:)
One day, you are out in your yard when the next-door neighbor's garden gnome suddenly walks over and starts telling you about "what is really going on." Write this scene.
http://i801.photobucket.com/albums/yy299/kittypaws_jones/German_garden_gnome_cropped.jpg
I was busy watering my gardens when low and behold the gnome from Sally’s garden appears beside me. I dropped the hose in surprise, I didn’t know they could actually move; I always thought someone stole them! I was even more stunned when this small creature with his pointed red hat and awful smelling pipe spoke!
“Do you really know what is going on?” His teeth were like broken chalk and his beard stained from mud
Dumfounded I stared.
“They are selling ‘stuff’ over there! Every evening the ladies run in and then out with packages they cling tight to their chest! I believe they are smuggling in elves!” his cheeks grew bright red.
“Do you know what that means?” His deep brown eyes reaching up to search mine.
I must admit I stuttered, still astonished “No, I am afraid I don’t.”
“Well I will tell ya lass!” he began while he puffed on his smokeless pipe and paced back and forth.
“It means that soon the gardens and woods will be taken by elves and they will be playing their tricks…beware, I have seen some of these elves they are smuggling in and they be nasty looking ones!”
I couldn’t help but giggle….
“You wait and see! And remember it was I who warned ya!” He called back over his shoulder as he lay back down in Sally’s garden.
About a week went by and I kept eyeing up the gnome and thought perhaps I had lost my mind; then it happened. Sally knocked at the door and asked me if I wanted to come over to visit…she had something to share with me.
Sally was recruiting women to be Santa’s Elves at a Gala Ball to be held at the local pub and the gnome was right! Some of them were pretty nasty looking! I politely refused and left with a smile on my face and as I passed the gnome in her garden, I reached down and patted him on his pointed hat. He winked.
kittypaws:)