Saturday Wordzzle # 20

The idea is, every week Raven (View From A Raven's Nest) gives you between 8 and 10 words/phrases and you have to create a small but coherent paragraph using every one of them and the same with the mini challenge. You can do either, both or a megawordzzle using all the words, or even all three, it's up to you, you can post them on your blog or email them to Raven. If you join in go to Raven's and put your name on the Mr. Linky so other participants can come visit you.

Here are my efforts - complete with my doodles.

This Week's Ten Word Challenge is: handy, operation, gratitude, parallel bars, the color purple, manic depressive, Puget Sound, fragmentary, perpetual motion, secretive

Tamara lounged on the deck of the yacht, enjoying the perpetual motion of the water on Puget Sound. Her thoughts were fragmentary, as you might imagine of a manic depressive, but she looked at Carlos in gratitude, he’d shown her a different life to the one she had led working at ‘Parallel Bars’ in New York as a lap dancer. Peering at herself in the handy mirror, she looked at the scar on her cheek, it was usually pale but today it looked the colour purple. The scar was from a knife wound inflicted on her by a particularly nasty customer at the bar, luckily for her Carlos had been on hand to rescue her and he’d looked after her ever since. She would have to get ready soon Carlos liked her to dress for dinner and had provided her with the wherewithal to buy only the best in designer wear. They had guests for dinner tonight, though Carlos had been secretive about who they were, no doubt all would be revealed later. As Tamara teased her hair into a soft style which covered the scar she heard the sound of a motor launch approaching, that would be the guests she thought. Picking up her purse she made her way up to the deck where Carlos was greeting their guests.

“Tamara, come and meet Dr. Zinfandel"

“I’ve heard that name before’ thought Tamara.

“Tamara, Dr. Zinfandel is here to arrange your operation, he’s a cosmetic surgeon.”

“Oh thankyou Carlos” she cried “planting a huge kiss on his eager lips”.

Maybe she could get her boobs done at the same time!

And for the Mini Challenge: sympathetic, filet of sole, mysterious stranger, elephantine, music

Music fans at Glastonbury this year were treated to superb performances by ‘Mysterious Stranger’, ‘Elephantine’ and ‘Filet of Sole’ unfortunately the weather wasn’t very sympathetic to the event as it poured down with rain the whole time.

Megawordzzle

Cedric, a manic depressive from Puget Sound, spent his life in perpetual motion practising on the parallel bars in his handy home gym, it was the only thing that could lift his moods. Cedric was now 30 years old and had never been the outgoing type, but his mood swings meant he wasn’t very good company so girlfriends had been few and far between. He was a bit of a movie buff and had a huge collection of DVDs, his favourite film was ‘The Colour Purple’ though he could answer quiz questions on virtually any movie you cared to mention. His movie watching wasn’t confined to watching DVDs though, when he wasn’t in the gym you would find him at the cinema. It was there that he met a mysterious stranger who, as it turned out, was very sympathetic to his condition and she admired Cedric’s physique which was toned and muscular from all the gym work. Cedric began meeting Adrianne weekly and, over the months, got to know a lot about her, though she was very secretive at first. He discovered that her favourite food was filet of sole, she loved music and at one time she had been of elephantine proportions, but she’d had a gastric band operation which had enabled her to slim down to a size any model would envy. Gradually Adrianne and Cedric fell into a comfortable relationship and Cedric abandoned his parallel bars in favour of visits to restaurants and Jazz clubs with Adrianne. Cedric’s gratitude to Adrianne for lifting him from his depression knew no bounds so he asked her to marry him, unfortunately Adrianne interest in him had become fragmentary. Cedric had put a lot of weight on since he’d abandoned the gym and Adrianne couldn’t abide fat people.