Grandma at Grandma's Goulash provides a picture and a word prompt for this Microfiction Meme and the rules are use the photo as inspiration for a story of 140 characters OR 140 words.
Want more challenge? Use the word of the week in your story. This part is optional.
This week's word is COMPLACENT here's the picture and my offering using the picture and word of the week in 140 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
The complacent attitude of the people in the book signing
queue would disappear
when they discovered the author had gone home two hours
ago.
19 comments:
I guess that's what's called a ghost writer!
Great writing!
Sadly, I've seen the opposite a few times. Some poor author sitting alone and ignored in a book store with twenty or thirty books on his table.
The first comment beat me to it :-)
Enjoyed that.
This cracked me up!
LOVED theothersideofparis comment!!!!
BRILLIANT!
Great one, m'dear!
"when they discovered the author had gone home two hours ago."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Have a faaaabulous Monday!
X
Heehee that's the one. Top of the list. Loved it... a lot.
Very good!
Maggie X
Nuts in May
I really did laugh out loud! Great punch line...thanks for the morning laugh!
LOL Dumdad
Thanks Beach. I guess that's the other side of it for sure.
Glad you enjoyed it Anthony :)
Happy to make you smile Mama Zen x
Dumdad's a real wit Ron :)
So pleased you liked it Valerie x
Thanks Maggie
Cheers Pat glad it made you laugh.
Uh oh ..
That was a very bad author to leave his readers like that. Hope he left some signed books behind lol
aww I would be pretty upset!
hilarious!!
I bet that's actually happened
LOL!
I love your wicked humor!
(humour on your side of the ponds)
(^_^)
Aloha from Waikiki
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PERFECT! You're good at this!
I dread that happening to me - I mean, sitting there with no one turning up!
Great humor. I really got a smile out of this one.
This is a great one made me laugh out loud.
Uh ho Daryl?
I so agree with you Lady's Life
Me too storytreasury!
I think you may be right Dianne
Glad you liked it Cloudia x
Why thankyou Crystal Chick x
That would be terrible I agree Flowerpot
So pleased you like it Grandma
Happy to make you smile Bankerchick x
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