I’ve been very lucky in this blogging world, I’ve made some wonderful friends. I may not see them often…or ever…but that doesn’t mean they are any less a friend than someone I see often. Tara is one of those people I’m lucky to call friend. She was one of the first I established a friendship with and it’s still going strong all these years later.
Recently she took over Velvet Verbosity’s 100 Word Challenge. To find out more about this weekly writing prompt, you can find information here. This weeks challenge is ‘PECULIAR’. And, I’m just going to wing it, as usual.
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She was vaguely aware of the crowd gathering. The stiffness of the concrete and the cold wetness of the muddy snow went unnoticed as her eyes shifted past the skeletal trees. Strange how the clouds were making such a commotion as they tore across the sky. And the swarm of black flecks swooping up and down as one, that was peculiar as well. If she were the believing type like her Momma, this would have been an ominous premonition. As her eyes closed she thought, Flocks of birds bring bad things, that was one thing her Momma was right about.
Nicely done setting the ominous scene. Great images… skeletal trees, cold concrete, muddy snow. I love the believing type, like her Momma. Would love to see where you’re going with it. It’s good.
Thank you! I’m not sure what I’ll do with it. I was simply writing with no clear path! It would make for a cool paranormal though, I think!
But she doesn’t believe in premonitions… or does she? 😉
She may actually believe in them now. 🙂
Oh wow, Melissa. You just bring the descriptive natures to everything you do. I remember hugging you at BlogHer this year and thinking ..”this girl has it, she is so in tune with life that it makes her writing execpetional.”
This made me shiver, it made me long for another chapter.
Aw, thanks girl. Coming from you, that’s a huge compliment! I loved that we got to see each other at BlogHer! XO
Visions of Hitchcock danced in my head!
Pleasure to meet your blog, Melissa!
Oh nice,thank you! And, a pleasure to meet yours, as well!
This created a particular scene in my oddly operating mind. I could see her lying on the ground looking up through the trees at the ominous flock of birds. Love!
Nice to meet someone else with an oddly operating mind!! 🙂
Cold, muddy snow. We here in the Mid-Atlantic can relate. Ick.
Nicely-constructed description, here. I like!
I’m in Michigan. Cold and muddy is from October through April here. Sometimes rain, sometimes snow. All the time yucky!