Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Six Sentence Stories - Process

What is your course of action when trying to write a short story that includes a particular word? You may be wondering, "Who does that?" Well among those who participate in some writing blog hops, this is a thing. Every week Denise of Girlie on the Edge's Blog hosts a Six Sentence Stories blog hop in which she gives us a prompt word to include in our stories. There is a plethora of different kinds of stories and each and every one includes the given word. Sometimes the word is so discretely and cleverly used, you have to go back and reread the story to even find it. Anyway, enough of that. I hope you will click the link and read all the other stories too. I am linking my story to Six Sentence Stories - Process.



The root of the problem began innocently enough with just a single yellow top on the green, but their numbers grew with each advancing year.

A battle plan began to stir in the mind of one least expected.

The yellow tops were young and had no idea what awaited them, nor of the technique proven over time used by their opponent, so they just looked up and calmly stood their ground.

The adversary, sporting her knee-high black garden boots and wearing her broad-brimmed sun hat to cover her angelic-like hair, knelt on the ground and bowed her frail body directly over her victim.

She calmly started the process of elimination and determinedly thrust the end of the large handled screwdriver at the root of the problem. 

Those destroyed were overcome by the darkness around them and unable to give a cry of alarm to try to save even one of their own for her grandchildren to blow into the wind.

18 comments:

  1. Oh, I think those yellow tops will survive.

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    1. They seem to have a pretty good track record from all indications I've seen. :-)

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  2. Marvelous! What a poetic, dare I say, beautiful telling of one of the most tedious gardening tasks ever, lol

    I have never said it before but I always enjoy your intros. And I very much appreciate your support of Six Sentence Stories :)

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  3. Yow!*

    *compliment on a story that is engaging and grabs us (the reader) when we least expect it!

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    1. I'm glad it was a story with a hook. :-)

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  4. Lovely story, turning the eternal war of weeds into something more meaningful! Dandelions are survivors and like most their kind, at least one or two will find a way to hide or escape death and reseed and their bright yellow summer greetings will continue, along with puffs for children to scatter to the wind on wishes! <3 Personally, dandelions make me smile, and I'm glad we don't have a real lawn where I have to wage war against them. They are free to bloom at will here, right beside the holes left by the ground squirrels that I feed. :-)

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    1. Your lawn sounds so much like ours in recent years, even down to the ground squirrels. (I do not feed the ground squirrels though.)
      Years ago I tried some dandelion greens in a salad. Have you ever eaten them?

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  5. Ah, the volunteer plants we try so valiantly to eliminate. Well told!

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    1. Volunteers are strong and committed. :-)

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  6. That is an amazing story, Pat! Well done!

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  7. Weeding at it's best. Great six.

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  8. My place is overrun with them. Me not having any energy has ruind my yard! This strikes a chord.

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    1. I can relate. Having a big yard or a piece of acreage makes more sense when one is younger and more energetic and when the body rebounds quicker from the exertion needed to take care of everything.

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  9. Enjoyed your six! I cooked those yellow beauties once and they were tasty.

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    1. Thanks, Lisa. I never cooked them, but i used them with some salad greens once or twice. From what I remember, the best time to eat them is in the spring.

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