Being the service manager at the local Ford dealer didn’t prepare me to be sitting in stalled traffic behind a UPS truck that had slid off the road due to low visibility. I found myself wishing I had taken my own advice about winter driving. Wishing my snarky answer to the question my wife asked about it had not been, “I have my Platinum card”.
So clever, Barrie. How you got all four of those prompts woven seamlessly into one short story is mind-boggling. It was a scary story -- a situation I would definitely not want to be in.
I was mining my own terrors … cave explorations make me claustrophobic and ridges give me vertigo. I can write about the latter but I am pretty certain I would struggle with a ‘trapped in a cave’ story! Thanks so much for reading. I’m feeling a budding, a Spring surge of words!
"The rippling sides are alternately taut and slack, silent or cracking like a bull whip as howling winds assault the craggy ridge we can no longer see." Shivers!!
Artfully done Barrie! I loved this line especially "But snow devils whipped up in the maelstrom have swirled into the hollows made by our boots, adding tricksy malevolence to the art of navigation".
Being the service manager at the local Ford dealer didn’t prepare me to be sitting in stalled traffic behind a UPS truck that had slid off the road due to low visibility. I found myself wishing I had taken my own advice about winter driving. Wishing my snarky answer to the question my wife asked about it had not been, “I have my Platinum card”.
Nicely done, Jeff!
So clever, Barrie. How you got all four of those prompts woven seamlessly into one short story is mind-boggling. It was a scary story -- a situation I would definitely not want to be in.
I was mining my own terrors … cave explorations make me claustrophobic and ridges give me vertigo. I can write about the latter but I am pretty certain I would struggle with a ‘trapped in a cave’ story! Thanks so much for reading. I’m feeling a budding, a Spring surge of words!
Go Barrie!
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"The rippling sides are alternately taut and slack, silent or cracking like a bull whip as howling winds assault the craggy ridge we can no longer see." Shivers!!
Lovely to think a line evoked a feeling … thank you, Stephanie.
“Wraith-like figures offer themselves as icy-faced partners, inviting us to a macabre dance.” Very nice!
Ah, thank you so much, Priya.
Artfully done Barrie! I loved this line especially "But snow devils whipped up in the maelstrom have swirled into the hollows made by our boots, adding tricksy malevolence to the art of navigation".
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