I see an interesting picture over at Crimson’s Creative Challenge this week.
Well, I’m feeling like doing a bit more dialogue, so here’s my response in 145 words:
Cobble & Nobble
“What you finding there, Nobble?”
“Nada. Thought I saw a worm, but it’s just an old stick.”
“Eat it anyway. Fiber in your diet and all that.”
“Squelch the humour, Cob. I’m hungry and there’s just nothing here.”
“Yeah. No decent road-kill even. Shall we check the town dumpsters. Bit tricky, but we might…” Cobble heard a far off bang. “Hey — the acreage house door! Maybe that human feeder’s set out food for that stray?”
“Let’s go! You can distract the cat while I grab some nibbles, then I…”
“No way. It’s your turn to distract the cat. I get first dibs on the nibs this time.”
“I sure hope the human’s set out something fishy,” Cobble squawked as they flew toward the acreage a mile away. “Or even scraps and gristle. I’m sick of that chicken stuff.”
“Hey. Anything’s better than an old stick.”
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Haha! Anything is better than a stick.
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Quite right. Though we don’t have crow visitors, we do often get magpie visitors who obviously hear when I go out to feed the birds, and they love to raid any cat food bowls left outside.
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Very clever of them too eat the cat’s food.
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That was a most enjoyable exchange, Christine!
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Thanks for your comment. Not everyone finds a discussion between crows enjoyable. 🙂
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Then they lack imagination…
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Such fun! Love the names, and the personalities 🙂
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Glad you liked it. I found out that nobble’s British slang meaning to cheat, steal or swindle — which I thought was suitable for a crow. 😉
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a great conversation! I often wonder what birds would say if they could speak to each other!
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Thanks! I do enjoy writing dialogue. And I can tell you about word for word what the resident sparrows are saying when I step out the door with a tub of seeds:
“Food food food here it comes finally food hey chicks food’s here come food come finally food here it is guys finally food food…” 😉
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