This post is a response to the weekly writing challenge from Trifecta. Not only is this a challenge, it’s a competition. One that comes with the rewards of triumph, increased feelings of self satisfaction and having your wondrous words featured on Trifecta. Join in and be judged, you know you have the words to kick some literary bootay.
This week’s word: wretched
She was wretched. In all manners of the word. Her stiffly tangled hair, rough from too much contact with the unforgiving back of the worn recliner. Her attire, too cavernous, was unwittingly revealing. Her demeanor, violently cavalier or embarrassingly meek dependent on the company, the weather, the cycles of the moon. And, most pathetically, her lot in life. The one, gleaming with promise, she had carelessly selected, ordered and paid for. The one that fit snugly about her, except for the tiny sharp edge that she fingered over and over, startled each time by the jolt.
Carrie
March 1, 2012 at 6:43 pm
I read this twice and it’s elegantly simple. I’m trying to pick a single phrase I like but I love them all.
Lulo
March 2, 2012 at 2:45 am
Thank you!
Jessie Powell
March 1, 2012 at 10:34 pm
I love the idea of someone who can be “violently cavalier”. I love the idea that her life fits her except for a tiny sharp edge she fingers. I’ve got a spot like that on my favorite chair, which makes the reference to the recliner even more perfect from my perspective.
Lulo
March 2, 2012 at 2:49 am
I love the idea of you in that chair. Although you’re pretty freaking far from wretched.
karen
March 1, 2012 at 10:42 pm
There’s always a sharp edge somewhere, eh? Just waiting to dole out that jolt.
karen
March 1, 2012 at 10:43 pm
sigh. Too fast for myself. I meant to say, nicely played.
Lulo
March 2, 2012 at 2:53 am
Lulo
March 2, 2012 at 2:52 am
Can’t we just childproof the world?
Trifecta
March 2, 2012 at 1:41 am
Thanks for linking up, Joules. Another beautifully simple piece. You give us so many facets of her character in a short space, and at the risk of sounding repetitive, that’s another cracking last line!
Hope to see you over the weekend.
Lulo
March 2, 2012 at 2:54 am
Thank you, it’s nice to go out with a bang, er, jolt.
Sian
March 2, 2012 at 4:53 am
ooooooooooh so well described!
Lulo
March 4, 2012 at 4:32 am
It’s such a perfectly perfect word I couldn’t resist.