Pride

Velvet Verbosity # 372 – Short Engagement

| Sandra Pavloff Conner

 

 

Velvet Verbosity this week presented us with the word “Smack” as our prompt for a 100-word story. Below the picture is my story. I didn’t have any choice but to write it. The concept SMACKED me in the head and wouldn’t go away.

ENGAGEMENT RING CLIP ART

 

THE SHORT ENGAGEMENT

“Daphne, for weeks I’ve fought against the whole idea of loving you. I’ve argued all the reasons I should never even consider marrying you. You’re too unsophisticated and uneducated to fit into my social set. And your looks – well – you know what you see in the mirror. I need a beautiful woman beside me – who matches my looks.  So you can see how I’ve struggled.

“Yet … I’ve lost the battle, Daphne.  I am in love with you and cannot escape it.  I’ve decided to marry you and suffer the consequences.  Here’s the ring.”

SMACK!  The black eye lasted a week.

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(My apologies to Jane Austen for borrowing and abusing her unique “love” scene idea from Pride and Prejudice. I just couldn’t pass up the perfect fit of that concept with this prompt.)

 

 

 

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NaPoWriMo – 2013 – Day 10 – An “Unlove Poem”

| Sandra Pavloff Conner

NAPO 2013 BUTTON

The challenge for Day 10 is to write “an unlove poem” or a “poem of sarcastic dislike.”  So here goes: 

MIRROR

NARCISSUS

It’s true you quicken heartbeats when you enter rooms.
And every girl around compete’s for you.
The wilting sighs float down the street as you pass by,
And “brilliant” comes to mind at all you do.

Your smile – it’s dazzle quickly melts fair maiden hearts,
Your voice – it has a timbre all its own.
And when you stay away, we girls all miss you so;
That you return to find our love has grown.

But all our smiles and sighs have no effect on you.
And year by year you manage to stay free.
Well, I, for one, know why you never choose a love:
You’re lost in love with what your mirror sees.

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There are still 20 days to go. Hop over the Maureen’s site and get started:
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