Brigit's Flame August 2014 Challenge - Week Two: The Proud Mother
Title: The Proud Mother
Author: Florence A. Watson
Written for: Brigit’s Flame August 2014 Challenge (week two)
Prompt: Muscle
Length: 1521 words
Author’s Notes: This story is part of a longer work that is still in progress and is a follow on from the ficlet I wrote for the Brigit's Flame August 2014 Challenge (Week One) for the prompt “Bones”. It ( Read more... )
Author: Florence A. Watson
Written for: Brigit’s Flame August 2014 Challenge (week two)
Prompt: Muscle
Length: 1521 words
Author’s Notes: This story is part of a longer work that is still in progress and is a follow on from the ficlet I wrote for the Brigit's Flame August 2014 Challenge (Week One) for the prompt “Bones”. It ( Read more... )
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-Mrs Timmings’ grandson[,] Alfred, [was not] strictly speaking, [ ] from the village. Her daughter had gone to live in Leeds when she [had] married[,] but Alfred visited his grandmother frequently and his parents were not regular members of any church there[.] [This was] a fact much lamented by Mrs Timmings, who was a staunch supporter of the local Women’s Institute and very active in the parish[ ], so it had been agreed he should be included in the village service. For some peculiar reason no one could quite fathom, he’d signed on with the navy.
- Clearly[,] he had come [in] straight [ ] from working the fields without even a wash (let alone a change of clothes) before arriving at church. The parenthetical element may be omitted, as it is made redundant by the word “clearly”, the preceding hint of his odor and then the following description of his unwashed state.
- Someone had suggested ‘Land of Hope and ( ... )
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-Mrs Timmings’ grandson[,] Alfred, [was not] strictly speaking, [ ] from the village. Her daughter had gone to live in Leeds when she [had] married[,] but Alfred visited his grandmother frequently and his parents were not regular members of any church there[.] [This was] a fact much lamented by Mrs Timmings, who was a staunch supporter of the local Women’s Institute and very active in the parish[ ], so it had been agreed he should be included in the village service. For some peculiar reason no one could quite fathom, he’d signed on with the navy.
- Clearly[,] he had come [in] straight [ ] from working the fields without even a wash (let alone a change of clothes) before arriving at church. The parenthetical element may be omitted, as it is made redundant by the word “clearly”, the preceding hint of his odor and then the following description of his unwashed state.
- Someone had suggested ‘Land of Hope and ( ... )
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