Fun Monday

The hostess: Mommie Wizdom http://blog.mommiewizdom.com/

It is finally time for this week's Fun Monday. The assignment:

Your job is to write a story (true or made-up). You must INCLUDE all 10 words.

Theme : Bedtime Stories of Raising a Teenager

The words: Ostrich, goosebumps, magazines, soup, cats, lethargic, noodles, tequila, doorknob, biscuit

Wild card words: prehistoric, Jedi Knight, cactus, periscope, humor

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And so...

(Clearing throat and opening the carefully preserved story book...)

Once there was an ostrich, Fred, and when he turned thirteen,
His attitude and humor changed, you could tell by his magazines.
Fred once adored to linger, read and ruminate a tad
About his vast collection: Doorknobs! Oy, now they were RAD!!
Fred could sit for hours with his volumes prehistoric
And his heart would race with a pace that was truly meteoric!
Knobs of glass, or wood or pearl from the great Cape of Good Hope
Shapes like buttons, boats and balls - one, a periscope!
His prized one - a light blue orb - a present from Auntie Shelia
Which had contained in its center - the worm from a bottle of tequila!
This one had a cat's eye: Fred had got that one last year.
Another's painted "Abandon all hope YE who enter here."

But Fred has turned thirteen you see, and all that we can tell
That this seems to be the year Fred bid his doorknobs farewell.
To keep on collecting them seemed boring and lethargic.
The reasons for the quick distate seems almost biologic.
Fred didn't feel as strongly 'bout these doorknob magazines,
They didn't give him goosebumps - they were suddenly not keen.
"What really took their place?", you ask. The truth was quite surprising:
We noticed that new magazines were coming here since spring.
Cooking magazines -a bunch - from Arizona and Atlanta
Promising the best quick breads, from pumpkin to banana.

So Fred is in the kitchen, reading passionately with delight
Cooking up a storm, wielding a whisk like a Jedi Knight.
He found more recipes for dinner: Delicious garlic brisket,
Cactus soup with noodles, and a scrumptious flaky biscuit.

jsi

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