Good morning everyone!
On Sunday I came across another writing challenge offered by host blogger Brenda Warren, called The Sunday Whirl. Here’s the banner:
And here’s the word list for Wordle #457:
I took the given words and wrote the story on Sunday already, just haven’t gotten around to posting it. The above words, in various forms, mostly appear in the first few paragraphs. The second part I wrote just because I do like a good story. 🙂
A HINT OF FEAR
Larissa had won a scholarship to this college and she wasn’t going to waste it. She concentrated on her studies, foregoing holidays, declining invites to weekend parties. She even limited her trips back home so she could study.
Her diligence paid off in spades. When the marks were handed back after the last set of exams, she had to look twice. But it was true: she’d aced the exams. She was going to graduate with honors. She plowed her fist into the air and did a little pirouette.
She resisted the urge to dance around the room. Instead she thanked her professors and headed home where she could do all the singing and dancing she wanted to. Ah, but first a stop at Dairy Delightful, where she indulged in a delicious hot fudge sundae with whipped cream. This might inflate her waistline a bit, but she’d take a long jog tomorrow.
“Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars,” she sang as she slid the key in the lock on her apartment door. She opened the door partway when the strangest feeling hit her. Something felt very wrong, like someone was here. The odd sense of danger made her skin prickle.
She shook it off as imagination and stepped into the apartment, but that feeling of apprehension kept her from closing the door. Made her sigh a prayer. “God, if there’s really something wrong here, show me somehow.”
Though her eye saw nothing unusual, she did pick up a slight difference in the air. Had she left a window open? “Once I get a good-paying job I’m moving up in the world,” she promised herself. “Tenth floor at least.”
She straightened her spine and told herself firmly, “There is nothing wrong. I am not going to give in to some silly fear and let it spoil this beautiful day.”
But as she entered the room, the slight air movement brought to her a hint of stale tobacco. She didn’t smoke and neither had anyone else when they visited her. Acting on impulse she backed out of the room, shut the door, and locked it. Then she called her cousin Matt, grateful that she had his number on speed dial.
Handy having a cop in the family. So what if he’d find nothing amiss and tease her about being a chicken or needle her about her good imagination. She wasn’t taking any chances. Not like that girl in the news last week.
On second thought, Matt probably wouldn’t laugh.
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Ohh. I hope that she isn’t in any real trouble.
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I’ll leave you readers to decide if there was someone lurking or if it was just a false alarm.
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Something is not right, she’s done the right thing!
I did the Sunday Whirl for many years but gave up in August 2017 when I was the only contributor writing prose, everything else was poetry. Also, it went from having lots of participants to just a handful. I still miss it though!
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I’m not sure if I ever noticed it before, but thought I’d give it a whirl now. I tend to hop around with all the challenges, my way of making them known to my readers. There are just so many writing challenges of one sort or another!
I’m going to Follow this S-Whirl for awhile and see if the prompts inspire me, but since I do Ragtag prompts on Sunday, I don’t have time to post much else.
Thanks for your comments. I wonder how often we get that little feeling, and we override it with “common sense,” when we should have paid attention?
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