Monday, 30 July 2012

Succinctly Yours - A Microfiction Meme #59..




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 FOLIATE here's the picture and my offering, using the picture and word of the week  in 140 characters, including spaces and punctuation.




The recently deceased didn't expect to get a second chance,

due to a disease stripping Heaven's Garden of it's foliate,

making it imperfect.


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23 comments:

  1. MorningAJ30 July 2012 at 08:08

    I'm not sure that I'm headed upwards anyway - but this is still rather worrying!

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  2. anthonynorth30 July 2012 at 08:55

    Heaven must be going through a downturn :-)
    Nice one.

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  3. Jenny Woolf30 July 2012 at 09:05

    Love the wry humour! Well done.

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  4. Jenny Woolf30 July 2012 at 09:05

    Love the wry humour! Well done.

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  5. Akelamalu30 July 2012 at 10:27

    I'm sure all will be well when your time comes AJ ;)

    I think you're right Anthony ;)

    Cheers Jenny :)

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  6. katie eggeman30 July 2012 at 11:40

    You seem to be a little philosophical with this one. It gives pause.

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  7. cheshire wife30 July 2012 at 12:03

    It looks like we shall have to keep on living for the moment.

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  8. Daryl30 July 2012 at 13:53

    Uh oh .. no foliate! Turn back!!!

    So cleverly done, Akelamalu

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  9. Valerie30 July 2012 at 14:02

    I hope all is put right before my time comes.

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  10. Akelamalu30 July 2012 at 14:30

    I'm hoping it's what's happened when my time comes Banker Chick ;)

    Definitely Cheshire Wife :)

    Thanks Daryl :)

    You wouldn't like a second chance Valerie? ;)

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  11. Ron30 July 2012 at 15:49

    BRAVA, m' dear!

    Very clever usage of both the picture AND the word!

    Brilliant!

    Have a fabulous Monday....X

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  12. Grandma's Goulash30 July 2012 at 17:38

    If only the perfect made it to heaven, the place would be quite deserted! Good one.

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  13. Gledwood30 July 2012 at 19:59

    fo·li·ate (fl-t, -t)
    adj.
    1. Of or relating to leaves.
    2. Shaped like a leaf.
    3. Geology Foliated.
    v. (-t) fo·li·at·ed, fo·li·at·ing, fo·li·ates
    v.tr.
    1. To hammer or cut (metal) into thin leaf or foil.
    2.
    a. To coat (glass, for example) with metal foil.
    b. To furnish or adorn with metal foil.
    3. To separate into thin layers or laminae.
    4. To decorate with foliage or foils: an arch that is foliated in the Gothic style.
    5. To number the leaves of (a manuscript, for example).
    v.intr.
    1. To produce foliage.
    2. To split into thin leaflike layers or folia.

    I'm sorry, I just don't get it!!

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  14. Cloudia31 July 2012 at 03:00

    sort of chilling!



    Aloha from Waikiki
    Comfort Spiral
    <(-'.'-)>

    > < } } ( ° >

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  15. Commander Zaius31 July 2012 at 03:47

    As long as they have beer everything will still be okay for me.

    Very clever fiction, well done!

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  16. Akelamalu31 July 2012 at 09:02

    Thanks Ron x

    That's true Grandma ;)

    No1 Gleds - stripped of it's leaves.

    Indeed Cloudia

    Me too Beach :)

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  17. Pat1 August 2012 at 02:10

    Oh, heavens to Betsy, as my mother used to say! I hope the greenery sprang back quickly.

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  18. Anonymous1 August 2012 at 15:05

    Great wording to go with that picture! It does look like a stairgate to heaven - do hope it isn't closed when I travel on it!

    CJ x

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  19. Dianne1 August 2012 at 15:45

    how clever!!
    I didn't see a connection to Heaven at all
    wonder what that says about me ;)

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  20. Akelamalu1 August 2012 at 18:09

    I'm sure it did Pat :)

    Thanks CJ. You don't fancy a second chance then? ;)

    Great minds don't always think alike Dianne ;)

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  21. G-Man2 August 2012 at 01:35

    Doesn't foliate mean to grow hair?

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  22. Akelamalu2 August 2012 at 15:04

    It has various meanings G-man but not to grow hair. I have used it in the 'of or relating to leaves' meaning.

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  23. Gledwood8 August 2012 at 20:54

    Talking about foliage, did I tell you the name of that Chinese swimmer who some nasty rival coach accused of cheating, just because she's so good she beat the MEN's record... Ye Shiwen means "Leaf Poetry Text"!!!

    ☺☺☺☺☺☺☺

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