Monday, May 17, 2010

** Microfiction Monday **

I decided to give this a try, after seeing it on Janel's Jumble for a few weeks now. Hope I did it correctly! (Hey, Janel, give me a critique, ok??)




Susan at Stony River hosts Microfiction Monday. Susan posts pictures every week and writers take on the challenge to write 140 characters or fewer. (Twitter-sized) stories about the picture.




"Oh dear! What if my husband comes home early and sees his new bride receiving these jars from a delivery service? I told him I could can!"

23 comments:

  1. oh no! she's pulling a fast one on her hubby lol!

    Welcome to Microfiction Monday! Great job on your first entry, and thank you so much for visiting me over at the Infamous!

    JM

    Post Script:
    Design 215's character counter may be helpful to you... here's the link

    http://www.design215.com/toolbox/character_count.php

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  2. Thanks so much, Jillien! I just realized that the 140 count INCLUDED SPACES!! Duh!! I just revised it to fit the criteria! Oops!! I feel so dumb!! :(

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  3. Great story, before and after the changes. :)

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  4. Nooo worries becky! its fine the way it is. When ppl click on your link they'll see the new story, which is wonderful :)

    Like I said before, awesome job on your first MM!

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  5. Hey, that was really cute. I loved the story.

    Sandie

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  6. Thanks for visiting my blog and introducing yourself. I love your visual and the story...well, I identify. Not so much exaggerating my skills as a young bride, but undercounting the number of ebay purchases the mailman was delivering. :-)

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  7. AWWW! You're so much nicer than I am!!! What came to my mind was horrible one-liners about being goosed, and what was about to get hurled. Am I awful?

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  8. Very cute, Becky. And thanks for posting about the site. I'll have to check it out.
    Donna
    http://donnasbookpub.blogspot.com

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  9. This isn't an autobiography is it? :)

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  10. Hey everyone! Thanks! I think I finally got my name posted on Stony River, too, now. For some reason, it wasn't showing up the first time. (Maybe I should just stick with my other 10,000 projects I have going on at the moment! :/

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  11. Darn.....at the end of my story, I should've added one more word: "can"......as in, "I told my husband I could can-can!"

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  12. Good one. I canned some beets last year, it took me all day and was a big mess. She has the right ideal.

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  13. Haha, hilarious. Very clever caption, Becky, and it's your first one---super! Isn't this fun?!

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  14. Hi Connie T. and Pat! Thank you both so much for stopping by and leaving comments! I appreicate them all!

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  15. There's that. And then there's all the yoghurt that the milkman left...

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  16. Cute take! It's the kind of thing that you might expect to see happening on an old episode of That Girl, if Donald and Ann Marie were hitched! LOL! Or I could even see this as the subject matter, if Lucy was trying to dupe Ricky on an early I Love Lucy installment! Hmm. Maybe you should look into television screenwriting. LOL! (Don't mind me; I've got TV on the brain. I approach my life as if it's a sitcom. LOLouder! It's the only way to fly! LOLoudest!) *rereading the comment, notes the excessive laughter* RATS! That dang nitrous oxide valve must be leaking again.

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  17. Good job! I'd enter your contest for the books but I don't have grandchildren old enough yet!!

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  18. hubby will find out soon enough, i reckon...
    welcome to the club... what a fun debut :)

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  19. hahaha... why is it that women just can't tell the husband in the first place? LOL

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  20. Hi J Cosmo, Sparkle Farkle, Terri, Juliana, Jingle, and Bryan J. Bailey!! Thank you all so much for stopping and commenting on my first Microfiction Monday! I'm trying to get back to all of yours, and if I haven't, I apologize. (Bryan,,,,you don't seem to have a blog, so I can't go there and leave a comment for you!)

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I'm still getting quite a few spam comments that are Anonymous, so I'm trying "User with Google Accounts." If anyone tries to comment that I know, and it won't let you, send me an email, okay? Thanks so much.