Centusians assemble!
It's time once again for that weekly creative writing exercise known as Saturday Centus. This is the seventy-sixth week of this fun and challenging literary meme hosted by the incomparable Ms. Jenny Matlock of her blog, off on my tangent.
While we are normally given a text prompt from which to base our stories upon, this week Ms. Jenny has given us a photo instead. In addition to the usual 100 word limit, we are also tasked with using a literary device, Sensory Details, in creating our stories.
This means that we are to incorporate the senses of touch, hearing, smell, taste and sight in relation to the image in concocting our stories and poems. Sound easy? Well let's see you try writing one then!
After writing our stories we post them to Jenny's meme post so we can all share our takes on this week's assignment.
This is my submission for this week's Saturday Centus challenge. I have entitled it:
A Little Piece of Heaven
Klamath Falls was a far cry from the din of urban life Marv and Sharon had been used to, but living in harmony with nature in an old forest cabin had always been their dream. Marv loved the feeling of twigs and leaves crackling under his feet and the fresh scent of damp earth mingled with the wet bark of the pine forest.
Intoxicating.
Much like the aroma of Sharon’s delicious homemade bread baking in the cabin’s hearth oven and served up warm with a bowl of her famous beef stew.
“Now this is heaven” Marv grinned happily.
"Life's tough, it's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne
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Just imagine what you could have done with unlimited words!
ReplyDeleteReading that WAS a little piece of heaven. My mouth is watering, and I can seriously smell that stew and homemade bread.
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Could I have a slice of that just baked bread, please?
ReplyDeletewow, I could smell the bread. wait, maybe that was the rolls my daughter was baking. :) I kid.
ReplyDeleteVery well done, as always.
WATCH OUT FOR THAT BEAR!!! Hey was that a poisenous snake that just crawled in from the hole in the floor board?? Heh heh heh....I knew you could write it perfectly. I was just adding a few suggestions for ya. :D~Ames
ReplyDeleteThis is really cool...it felt like I was there too...very cool...what is one man's heaven could be another man's not so much heaven!
ReplyDeleteGreat timing! I have been on-line looking for some cabin in Northern Arizona where we can spend the summers, out of the Tucson heat!! I used to bake bread all the time, but we were getting too chunky, so Rod asked me to stop! Our butter consumption seriously dropped when I stopped baking!
ReplyDeleteThis was sooo beautiful. I could feel myself at this cabin. Wonderfully done.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant as usual Tom and cool quote from The Duke.
ReplyDeleteI think this was the most light and pleasant centus this week. Very nicely done.
ReplyDeletexoRobyn
Tom! This was such different writing for you. I can see you, all tongue in cheek, writing this pretty little prose and wanting to snark it up. Just a tiny bit!
ReplyDeleteBut it was fabulous just like it is.
And so are you!