This week’s words: Bird Cassette Trail Bohemian Warrant Nascence (adj.)) Beginning to exist, develop.) Chide Illusory Everywhere Topple Clinch Insouciant (free from worry, concern, anxiety)
When Harriet Bird woke and looked around, she found she was in the hospital. Still hooked up to various devices designed to keep her alive.
Beside her were her parents, her mother holding her hand.
In the corner, the cassette with her favourite Jason Bieber album continued to play his tortured melodies.
Her mother looked at her daughter not quite believing she was still alive.
It had been a nascent moment when the mother the day before had signed the warrant to allow Harriet’s life support to be turned off. That particular moment marked the minute when the trail they had followed all these months of seeking a cure at every turn had turned out to be nought.
The insouciance of the moment believing they would, at last, be free from the worry of their daughter’s medical condition, the pain she suffered would at last end for both them and Harriet.
The father had long chided both his wife and Harriet over taking so long to make a decision. Mother and daughter had been so very bohemian in so many ways. They both had been artists of some renown and so were not at the whim of societies norms.
Both held out hope of a cure.
Everywhere they looked they had run into a dead end.
But as Harriet did, in fact, slip away from the reality of life she discovered the next world was not yet ready for her. There was much debate and discussion around her death. One voice she recalled said it was all illusionary and she was not of the sort they required then and there. Expectation they said would result in her toppling unceremoniously and that would never do.
Finally, a deal was clinched, and Harriet was returned to live a little longer.
In her hospital bed, she looked from one parent to the other. “They weren’t ready for me,” she explained, “they said to go back, they’d be in touch another time.”
This announcement did little for the parent’s sense of insouciance as they both believed death was final and you didn’t get a rain check.
As they all sat around wondering what to make of this in the corner Justin Bieber’s childlike voice could be heard singing “Love Yourself’.
Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/wordle-163/
Morpethroad 
That was quite a feat to be able to take that list of somewhat esoteric words and weave them all into such an intriguing story. Well done.
Thank you good Sir, I find the wordle a great challenge…
Tough Wordle list – sweet story 🙂
Thank you so much kim.
I wonder if she’ll ever be the same again after having a glimpse of the other side.
Yes I wonder if any of us would. Thanks for stopping by 🤓
Really enjoyed this on Michael very controversial 💗
Thanks willow
It was very controversial ☺️
How so willow?
The whole scenario of having to turn off a loved one’s life support machine. There is big argument going on about Baby Charlie Guard http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/charlie-gard-terminally-ill-babys-parents-great-ormond-street-hospital-petition-connie-yates-chris-a7831601.html
It has suddenly become a world wide situation with the Pope and Donald Trump getting involved. Trump and the Pope..weird !
Thank you willow, I was not aware of that case until now. So thanks for bringing it to my attention. I did think you may have been critical of my references to Justin Bieber. Also bear in mind with a wordle you are trying to shape the words into some sort of story and it is never easy hence the odd references at times to unlikely scenarios, but for me that is all part of the game.
I thought the story was compelling and I really liked it. I think it is very clever that you can weave a story out of random words. No not worried about Master Bieber he can manage his own controversy.
The baby’s story is a sad one I feel for the time mite. Have a good day Michael.💜
Thanks willow, you too, soon for dinner down here..
Enjoy it’s not 9am yet here
Great weaving with the wordle Michael 🙂
Interesting words this week, certainly with a different feel that last week’s great challenge, but you’ve done it very well:) Had me cracking up with the name, Harriet Bird – sounds so right, and fitting for the piece. Interesting story and I like how you’ve added just a hint of the devilish to this – the casually placed lines about her death being discussed, and how she was sent back, and her revelation to her parents. All very …. hmm, insouciant 😉
Thank you Pat as always a lot of fun and very challenging at the same time….glad it left you insouciant!!!
I like the notion of a rain check on death for others–though I didn’t much appreciate when I received one…
Depends on the circumstances I would think….though sometimes its just not your time..
True.