It is that time of the week. One I look forward to a great deal. And by the way Quilly, mahalo for hosting Three Word Thursday. It’s a blast and I can’t tell you how much I enjoy it.
Each week Quilly, Quilly’s Pacific…Paradise? give us three words to compose a story. This weeks words are:
propinquity – a. Proximity; nearness b. Kinship c. Similarity in nature
susurrus – the indistinct sound of people whispering
nescience – a. Absence of knowledge or awareness; ignorance b. Agnosticism
Devon could barely make out the susurrus.
Cherie “Most impressive! Though I will admit that use of ALL the words is getting beyond me.”
Jientje ”
This is getting REALLY complicated for me. You see, I’m not really with the story from the beginning, and I have the hardest time trying to figure out who is who? Or should I say, who is what? Maybe you could do a who is who/what on top of the post or something? And the use of all of the words…”
Juliana “…however, i’m with others… you might consider leaving some of the words out”
Quilly “…I agree with the others – -these are my words and your story is getting too hard to read!”
Fandango “Wow! All those words piled on top of each other. Dragons are lucky if we can handle three but ours are posted now.”
Alice in BC Canada “…Ya, I must admit that I do agree with the general consensus as to the use of copious past words. You have really made it work to date… tho can you imagine in a few more weeks, or months? Let see… 3 words per week times, let say 52 weeks, that is 156 Quilly words in a year. You really would have to drop that at some point, and it sounds like now would be a good time. My hat is off to you for achieving this challenge to date, and I look forward to an easier-to-read story next week.”
And from the treacherous trickester himself, twice no less.
Dr. John “Every week you suffarcinate your Quilly story with quondam words. I suggest the summotion of the most traboccant of them…”
Continuing.
“suffarcinate v 1656 -1656 to load up; to stuff His daughter suffarcinated the moving van with a hoard of old clothing, to his chagrin. traboccant adj 1651 -1654 superabundant; excessive
Your traboccant generosity will no doubt be repaid twice over by the award recipients.”
He kept hearing this over and over again all because of his nescience. And then another voice. The isangelous
Melli “OH! But I WILL say this… because I just HAVE to… because NO ONE ELSE will… (Lord, forgive me)… but in every story you use the word isangelous in a way that refers to being like ANGLES – or angular, or adjacent or something like that… but the definition is like ANGELS – you know – those spiritual beings with wings and halos? AAAAAAAAACK! I didn’t WANNA tell you! The devil made me do it! Nooooo… I DID wanna tell you — cuz I know you really DO wanna know. I would want somebody to tell me…”
Devon couldn’t believe what he thought he was hearing. How could this be? How could this keep happening to him? ….
“Wake up Devon” Gracie was saying in a hurried voice as she kept gently tapping his face with her legs.
“Wha…what happened?” Devon quizzed as he rubbed his eyes with his legs and saw Howie, the huge bloodhound standing over them all, worrying about the propinquity of the beast.
Howie was drooling and the small grin on his face eased Devon’s mind. He must be friendly or the others would have scattered Devon thought.
“Well, you fainted Devon. Howie made the ground tremble running over to us. You were holding onto Gracie and the next thing you know…blop.” Samantha said victoriously. “Men!” she continued.
“Gracie I heard voices. Changes need to be made and I shall make them” Devon said quickly. “And….”
“Devon…shush” Gracie spat. “Samantha has something to show us and we are getting a late start because of the scene you created.” With that, Gracie, Samantha, The Lightning Bug and Devon all jumped up on Howie’s back and he started off.
Devon knew what he had to do. Off in the distance he heard the noise.
Oh the life of slithering creatures.
I just loved it. If you get any more creative you will become a butterfly or a fish or whatever.
Maybe a horny toad? Mahalo Dr. John
Devon dreamed about US? Poor little hopper. That was a nightmare.
It was indeed a nightmare…a very very scary nightmare
Now that was funny. Far too many words for a dragon but funny.
You need to go back to Quilly’s and sign the linksy so others can read this masterpiece.
Thank you Fandango. I went and signed.
How clever in making changes. I like the pictures also.
Reminder to sign Linksy.
Mahalo bettygram. I went back and signed.
Very clever using the comments as susurrus. Are you sure so many voices did not cause a huge fracas?
I loved your story.
Unfortunately, my nescience as a writer kept me from posting the challenge this week. Oh well, better luck next week?
Mahalo my Belgian Bombshell. You are 2/3 there with your story just in your comment here
Mahalo! But 2/3rds just is not enough is it!
There’s an old US saying : give it the old college try
awww, what a nightmare!
just loved this. cleverly done.
Many many thanks. Hope you are feeling better.
Oh my gosh! You had me sO confused in the beginning! I kept thinking I had run into the comments and MISSED the story! It wasn’t until I got to my OWN comment that I finally figured the whole thing out! And that was quite a ways… YOU are a bloomin’ genius! You REALLY are! This was just amazing!
It wasn’t until your comment when the idea came to me. Thanks so much for all your comments.
Your best ever! Love all the quotes and the fine conclusion. Well done. Love the art work.
Mahalo Raven…i tried to make the pictures look like he was dreaming so everyone knew what was going on…but alas they didn’t have stars on it…and my free hand leaves a lot to be desired. Thanks for stopping by
That was so funny! And how honored I feel to be featured.
Very “stream of consciousness.” Well done!
Thank you Cherie and you are most welcome!
Oh, bytheway, even though I didn’t say so before, this really was a brilliant stroke of originality. Very well done.
Thank you very much Quilly…I have a great mentor
i love devon… thom if you left out all the big words what a childrens book it would make. you ought to think about it.
Thanks Ma…we shall see…thanks for the comments
Very clever and lots of fun. I really enjoyed this.
Thank you very much Nessa
WooHooooo!!! I love the way you used all the post comments as part of your story this week. Very well done. I’m wondering where the gang is off to now. I look forward to the next installment next week, and it’s nice to have only the current words, and maybe the odd former word, included.
Thank you Alice…It was a much easier read. I was a Quilly’s this morning and I told her I don’t know how far I’m going to take this but I so enjoy doing it