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Post by Bara on Feb 22, 2014 6:37:26 GMT -5
.. you would hear come out of your own mouth. Must be real.
Me :
"I can't find my adjustable spanner..."
"I'm sorry, the courier has left my dog food delivery in your car."
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Post by adcooper on Feb 25, 2014 8:52:56 GMT -5
First lines of great novels.
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Post by Bara on Feb 25, 2014 9:11:54 GMT -5
OK. If you insist ..
"It was a dark and stormy night, in Shetland. The North Sea was breaking against the rocks, in a torrent of foam ...
"Oh, STOP!"
The stranger-wraith was standing atop the cliffs of Eshaness.
The north wind caught her clothing, the figure flew from the cliff..
The north wind caught her words : "I've lost my adjustable spanner and dog fooooooo"
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Post by Goalie on Feb 25, 2014 9:37:28 GMT -5
I'm confused.
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Post by ZenRider on Feb 26, 2014 2:27:53 GMT -5
what a spanner is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpannerPostal guy misdelivered her dog food. As for Bara's second post, just being a bit melodramatic, though I don't think I would take the start of a book over the cliff so soon.  |
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Post by adcooper on Feb 26, 2014 8:05:56 GMT -5
I love your book, B. I Have already slapped a barcode on The Fall of the Wild (assuming that's the title of this epic) and checked it out to members of our Heart of Darkness book club.
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Post by Lisa on Feb 26, 2014 17:19:46 GMT -5
Things you hear in my household.
"do you have to lick his pee pee?"
"no! don't eat that turd!!"
"still not dinner time (said every hour starting at 1 p.m.)"
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Post by Bara on Feb 26, 2014 18:43:55 GMT -5
The UPS delivery truck backed away from the cliff-edge ...
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Post by ZenRider on Feb 27, 2014 0:40:56 GMT -5
...as Ann looked at the puppy in the window. www.petfinder.com/petdetail/27970501/ and realized that dog food that mysteriously was left in her car may have been trying to tell her something..... Sorry Ann, I saw that face and immediately thought of you. |
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Post by Bara on Feb 27, 2014 6:17:54 GMT -5
"Well, THAT's rude! Auntie Ann does not look like a Setter," thought Lexie, as Auntie Zen backed away from the cliff." "Where are we going, Auntie Lisa?" yipped Joe! ("Still not dinner-time...?") www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekr05T9Iaio"Oh - him again," said Lexie. "Ponies, ponies, bl***y ponies!" "Where's Auntie Brooks?" Said Joe. "Where's Mum?" Said Lex. Auntie Zen gunned her truck down the winding, mountain road .. |
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Post by adcooper on Feb 28, 2014 8:05:19 GMT -5
(Bruce caught Ann gazing at Hazard the Setter on Petfinder and threatened to confiscate her Samsung Tablet.)
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Post by Bara on Feb 28, 2014 9:25:50 GMT -5
Lexie was tapping out an address on Ann's tablet ... Someone tapped her on the shoulder. "Not NOW, Auntie Lisa," snapped Lex.
"But, Lexie, your mom - cliffs - 'Fall of the Wild'..."
"But, LOOK, Auntie Lisa - a Setter for Auntie Ann!" Lexie handed the tablet to Lisa.
Ann made a grab for it ...
Poor little Joe was left on the cliff, making a grab for his mom.
He caught her night-dress in his teef.
The fabric was tearing; the gallant little collie dug his pointy little toes into the loose stones...
It was an unequal struggle.
"Dammit!" Thought Joe, "Drat!" as he watched Mom tip over the cliff.
"How am I going to get home?" Thought Joe. The headlights of the UPS truck disappeared down the dark road...
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Post by ZenRider on Feb 28, 2014 16:51:03 GMT -5
(Bruce caught Ann gazing at Hazard the Setter on Petfinder and threatened to confiscate her Samsung Tablet.)    Joe hears a voice from below him calling, "Joe! Throw down your leash!" Bara hanging from a tree root watches Joe's leash fall into the darkness below her.... |
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Post by Bara on Mar 1, 2014 3:00:48 GMT -5
"Oh well," thought Bara, fatalistically, watching the leash glinting in the soft glow of the Aurora Borealis. "I don't suppose that the spanner - err - wrench would have helped much."
Joe heard a noise from the base of the cliff...
"What?" He asked. "Is it dinner time, now?"
From the darkness, at the base of the rocks, Bara heard a little voice, over the crash of the North Sea... carried to her on the North Wind.
"Bara, it's me, let go - I'll catch you!"
"Oh! Broooooks!" Bara lost her grip, tumbling head over tail to her friend and her chair on the rocks below.
A large green shape swooped in and caught Bara in mid-fall. He looped the clifftop then picked up his mom and her chair.
Some time later, they were all sipping hot cocoa in Bara's little croft. Danny had lit all the stoves and the place was toasty.
Terrie was enjoying being warm. Brooks' chair was drawn up to the fireside. Lexie was still refusing to give Ann her tablet back; she was on Twitter with a handsome setter.
The door burst open and a small, black and white, bedraggled shape stomped in....
They'd forgotten him!
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Post by ZenRider on Mar 2, 2014 19:46:48 GMT -5
And Bara's car which was still parked at the top of the cliff...
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