With the owner sidelined through illness, it was a case of open slather. There was little joy you might say, but the dragons were restless.
Corralled as they were the words for this week’s challenge milled about, bumping each other, pushing aside the prepositions, the nouns believing they were superior and the verbs recently captured in the latest roundup snorted and pawed at the ground awaiting their opportunity to move from the wild to the order of modern living.
It was the wildverbs who caused the upset on the day. They pushed the dragons just that bit too far. The dragons believing, they held sway over the word farm tried using their whips which the verbs resisted by dropping their tense and creating chaos when the parsing was attempted.
It was such that the annual scrabble tournament was abandoned, the dragons furious, the wildverbs left to sulk in the corner, the nouns saying: “Well I did tell you so!!”
Written for: https://flashfictionforaspiringwriters.wordpress.com/2018/10/08/fffaw-challenge-186th/
Morpethroad 
Hahaha! Seems more like the war of English Grammar! LOL! Cute story, Michael!
Thanks Joy, hope you feel better soon.
Thank you Michael! Me too.
If only you had been my grammar teacher, I might have learnt so much more about my native tongue
Lol….I had enough trouble myself…
True to life – those words never behave themselves!
Thanks Iain, glad you have the same problem…lol
😀 This is reminding of the tale in the Phantom of the Tollbooth except there was a war between words and numbers. Who knew that there was civil unrest in the word kingdom!
Who Indeed or its just my warped imagination. Thanks for stopping by.
At least the dragons could maintain some control over the other words by threatening to hold them back for declension!
Lol…and yes what a painful process that is….
Ha ha ha ha ha, that was quite a wild ride Michael. Loved it to bits.
Thanks so much.
War of the Words! Brilliant.
Thanks so much Keith.
So creative. I disliked grammar in school but somehow managed. Presented in this manner I would have been a star. 😊
Thanks so much for your comment for many of us grammar has been a necessary evil.