This week’s words: Madness, fertile, scorn, listen, crinoline, exaggerate, petrous, needle, Lily, fragile, ornament, twenty-three
All Lily heard sounding in her head was twenty- three, twenty-three, twenty-three…..as the words bounced around inside her mind. It was panic stations as the end of what she held dear came crashing down upon her. Her once fertile playing field with her love an ornament to his sex had reduced her once strong and committed self to a fragile blubbering mess. She could feel the madness setting in around her as she listened to his voice spelling out in no exaggerated way the stark reality of his circumstance. He had been caught. Red handed like the boy with his hand in the lolly jar only in this circumstance it was with his pants down and her with her crinoline skirt up over her head. His wife who most days had a petrous personality, the only difference was she managed an almost likeable sandstone on the rare day when she wasn’t granite personified, had since the discovery heaped scorn like a bull in a china shop, needling his sense of manhood and responsibility to the point of a likely domestic incident. Lily felt each prick of scorn cast upon her one love. She felt a madness within her swelling and the urge to seek vengeance by destroying his wife’s valuable ornament collection of porcelain clown figurines. It was no exaggeration that the petrous wife had an entire room of said figurines. What joy thought Lily it would be to subject each one to her own brand of twenty-three. Suddenly her version of scorn replaced her fragility as she listened to her mind formulating the most cunning of plans.
Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2015/08/17/wordle-74-august-17-2015%E2%80%B3/
Morpethroad 
I that love you used 23 to represent chaos Michael, very vivid story-telling and character portraits
Thanks Yves, as always a lot of fun.
This is beyond brilliant–sheer genius, Michael, BRAVO!
Thank you Val. sometimes I do have a point to make. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Yikes. I’ve seen porcelain clown figurines in the Hallmark shop, so if that valuable ornament collection equates to those, I’m thinking this will be an expensive lesson Lily’s about to dish out: Don’t mess with Lily… 😦
You said it lady….do so at your own expense especially if you have clown figurines…..thanks Mandy for stopping by…
Clown figurines should be smashed because they are clown figurines, lol.
Great use of the wordle words. Quite a story told
Thank you friend. As always I had some fun with the words…
Really fascinating and interesting interpretation of the Worlde.
The structure or form of how you chose to write it – well it almost makes it too difficult to read, but it works so well, as does the story itself, in lending to the chaos and energy that is feeding through the character’s mind and thoughts. A complete whirlwind. Well done Michael 😀
Thank you mj, the wordle is both a fun exercise and a lot of fun.
You did a great job 🙂