100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups Week# 58

I’ve missed a couple of weeks lately but I made it this time and early too. Julia’s prompt is ‘As the apple fell’ and I’m hoping she won’t mind that I’m adding a photo.

 

Repair Job

‘And this is our newest sculpture, perfect placing eh? We were lucky to get lottery funding,’ he said, puffed with pride, to the journalist who squinted as someone dashed towards them.

‘Ah, here comes the artist now.’

‘It’s striking,’ the woman from Gardeners Globe said, ‘I like the way the Raku makes it look, uh, well a bit rotten.’

‘Raku, I don’t make Raku, what the . . .?

‘Jim?’

‘I tried to glue it’

‘Jim?’

‘Thought I’d caught it but ‘twas wet see? Wet clay soil and I slipped as the apple fell off me wheelbarrow.’

The artist and gardener were equally flushed.

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Gilly Mbachu Goldsworthy is a mum to two kids that are supposed to be grown up and mma to a four year old and a new born baby boy. None of that means that I am grown up though! I love writing – travel and quite edgy fiction – and being an OU student for a degree which remains to be seen. What I do best though is counselling; I’ve been privileged to work with many people through big changes.
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22 Responses to 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups Week# 58

  1. Nothing like a little pompous art-speak to get the story off to a good start! ;) No wonder they wound up flushed.

  2. beebeesworld says:

    nice work -Ive been on the computer for over a week=sick-then the cable got messed up, I had 977 messages piled u, so obviously I wont be able to do a lot-still not well-rough week. Hope you are doing well–beebeesworld

  3. Artists and gardeners. Oh my.

  4. Great take on the prompt. Caught out!

  5. TBM says:

    LOL…I’ve known some people like this

  6. sort a new twist on “rotten to the core”? “If it is broke, do fix it”? “A glued apple a day will keep the press away”?

  7. Mayumi-H says:

    Very cute, Gilly! Surprising, how mistakes can create art. :)

  8. lorrainefort says:

    oops! this made me chuckle…a very unique take on the prompt. nicely done!

  9. This made me smile. Beautiful story !

  10. Paul says:

    Nice humorous take and well done. Loved Jim’s accent. Not overdone.

  11. adinparadise says:

    Hehehe. Loved this one, Gilly. :)

  12. sjbwriting says:

    Loved this – wonder if the gardener kept his job… Nice photo to accompany it!

  13. Delft says:

    If breaking and glueing improves your artwork, that’s a bit of a shock I guess. Lol.

  14. Deft and amusing. But what is Raku?

  15. OMG … I can just imagine their faces. This was a cute portrayal of
    what can happen with clay. Very nice, Gilly.

  16. GoofyJ says:

    ha ha ha – I liked this, it gave me a good chuckle. Wonderful take on the prompt.

  17. This got me smiling. Thanks…. Good work.

  18. Madhu says:

    Good one Gilly! I can believe some hifalutin art critic going into raptures over the ‘rotten’ look :lol:

  19. KP says:

    A cracking good tale!

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