Saturday, October 15, 2011

Fat Grandma's House....

Saturday Centus time, a themed writing meme. The challenge is to write 100 words to add to the prompt started by Jenny Matlock from off on my tangent. This week's prompt is a picture.


(Thanks for reading!)

Tennessee bound fetching an ailing great grandmother found this 12 year old scared to enter her home. The wooden porch groaned loudly, threatening to eat my legs. Inside, the place resembled a jr high school History lesson, a wood burning stove, a wash board, stockings hung dry. Packing her things I spied a treasure, opening it I buried my nose in the sweet cedar, more kid friendly than the other smells. The offer of the box came with warning. Her weathered hand tipped my chin and nose to nose she said "take good care, it’s the best thing I got”.


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8 comments:

  1. VikiOctober 15, 2011 at 12:40 PM

    Very entertaining centus. I can imagine people still living like that. Great job.

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  2. Susan AndersonOctober 15, 2011 at 2:23 PM

    This one did activate the senses. I could smell the place...and I was glad to have a break with the cedar!

    =)

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  3. DaydreamertooOctober 15, 2011 at 2:56 PM

    Awww I can see why. It really is a wreck of a house but, imagine the stories they can tell.
    Lovely use of the centus prompt.

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  4. DaydreamertooOctober 15, 2011 at 2:57 PM

    P.S. I wanted to leave it as. Maybe she could renovate and.. so the reader can make up their own mind what she did... and we only had the 100 words :)

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  5. maryelizabethrocheOctober 15, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    When you mentioned the smell of cedar, it brought me back! Great story!

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  6. AlisonOctober 16, 2011 at 12:06 AM

    Wonderful post! I saw and smelled everything and it brought back so many great memories for me.

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  7. anitamombanitaOctober 16, 2011 at 1:17 AM

    terrific!

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  8. Dazee DreamerOctober 16, 2011 at 9:50 PM

    oh, the sweet smell of cedar. I loved to open my moms because of the same thing.

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