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Post by diannet on Sept 21, 2011 20:42:18 GMT -6
I thought this photo I took yesterday of my Panda waiting by the telephone might be a another cat challenge...for Flash Fiction or poetry.  |
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Post by Brigid Briton on Sept 23, 2011 20:30:40 GMT -6
OK, I'll play. Here's my very first attempt at Flash Fiction:
Call Waiting
She’s hoping he’ll call. That’s all she thinks about. She doesn’t think I know, she acts indifferent and aloof, as if she doesn’t jump and dash to the phone each time it rings, giving off those irritating vibrations of disappointment when he isn’t the one calling. She even got her sister to sit here by the old phone so she could rush out and buy a new one that has an answering machine built in---so she wouldn’t miss his precious call, even if she’s out and about. I’m tired of all this. She should know that I’m the one she can count on. I’m better looking, much more intelligent and so much more amusing than he is. She should know that he can never curl in her lap and show his love by the judicious sinking of claws into her tender flesh. But she doesn’t. She’s forgotten. Forgotten me! And that’s why I’m stationed here, poised to delete his message, if he ever condescends to call.
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Post by diannet on Sept 23, 2011 22:08:16 GMT -6
LoL! That's fabulous Brigid, so you too can flash fiction. That's just what Panda would do...  |
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Post by diannet on Sept 25, 2011 2:14:57 GMT -6
Well I thought I'd better have a flash fiction for my own pussycat, I think I'd be in terrible trouble if I couldn't come up with the goods... so here it is a little Menow!
Menow
So are you having trouble with your human? Not performing to your high standards of ownership? Ignoring your presence, maybe? Or are they content to sleep in when you want your breakfast? Watching television, when you need some pampering? Or having the audacity to be annoyed because you want to use the computer at precisely the same time as them? Well, I have just the solution. Call me now, Panda, and with my five step program you will have your human performing tricks you never thought possible.
The first five callers to state the code word MENOW, will receive the first DVD in the series of Panda’s Purrfect People Program and learn the precision of how to knock china off shelves and get the attention YOU deserve.
Call now, and you will receive a free set of dastardly dog odour fragrances and get that dog back out in the yard where it belongs. All this is yours and more...call now a get the life you deserve, this offer is only available for a short time. Do I look like a cat that doesn’t get what she wants, so come on call, we all deserve a bit of MENOW!
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Post by Fire Monkey on Sept 25, 2011 4:22:08 GMT -6
Both are great and sound purrfectly accurate ;D
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Post by Brigid Briton on Sept 29, 2011 18:56:52 GMT -6
Hiya Dianne, I loved your entry in this challenge. So cute. So cat!  |
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Post by heatherwordbender on Sept 30, 2011 14:14:23 GMT -6
Really. One's person ought to simply go and do. Finish. Tell them what is required and have done. This waiting, this noisemaker is an insult. An affront. We tell them what is required; they accede. Done. Of course he will accept. He will be delighted. My purrfectly ravishing self, how could he not? Awaiting my word, like as not. This is merely...a lovely spot to nap and of course I do not wait. Perfectly sized is all. Does my coat look silken? really liked yours, All...this was a struggle.  |
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Post by diannet on Sept 30, 2011 19:03:17 GMT -6
Nice entry Heather, her coat did look silken Isn't it funny what we struggle with when writing, sometimes you think something will be easy and argh! Like me with the Villanelle (though I did know that wouldn't be easy). Anyway I am so glad you penned something for the Panda Challenge. Thanks from Panda as well. |
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