Announcements and 100 Words
Hello and welcome to the lovely day after Monday. Tuesday.
First off, I would like to congratulate Ms. Cheryl Snell for winning a block of very yummy dark chocolate with her comment on the Scribes blog carnival. If you don’t know why she won or how you can win, check out the Fiction Scribe 100 Comments Contest post.
Also, I would like you all to know that you have a chance to win either a free virtual book tour or a fifty dollar B&N gift certificate. Go here for more details.
Another prompt from Velvet Verbosity has had me thinking hard about what to write. You’ll have to forgive my temporary lapse into… whatever it is that I’ve written. But it’s what came to mind when I saw the prompt word:
Plastic
Eyes. Ears. Mouth. Shoulders.
Neck. Lips. Cheeks. Eyebrows.
Fix. Pluck. Colour. Exfoliate.
Cut. Trim. Tease. Curl.
Diet.
Accessorize. Prioritize. Organize. Glorify.
No success? Try, try, try.
Don’t be shy or chance goes by.
Blush on cheeks. Shadowed eyes.
Exercise.
Change. Mold. Mesh. Mingle.
Trim. Taut. Terrific. Anti-wrinkle.
Suck in. Chin up. Chest out. Glitter sprinkle.
Shine and twinkle.
Surgery.
Money. Shine. Pride. Pose.
Liquid lips. Hint of rose.
Spine distort. Deforming toes.
Beauty’s price. So it goes.
Virginity lost.
Realization. Past generation.
No room for age in new Y nation.
Old dress, news, style, fashion.
Nothing left. No education.
Plastic.
Thank you to Velvet Verbosity for providing the prompt. If you participate in this weekly prompt, be sure to leave a link both here and on the VV post so we can all read what you have written.
Thank you all and have a lovely Tuesday.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:03 am
There’s a lot of truth in that. Did you know that in South America, some girls are given plastic surgery for their birthdays at fifteen and sixteen? Other girls come to the US illegally and work for several years just to afford one “enhancement” or another.
Don’t they understand that any guy who is only interested in the augmentations is not a good catch? Those guys should just buy custom designed androids - the technology is nearly there. They’d have everything they wanted, without ruining any woman’s life. Sorry, but it really seems to me that would be better for all concerned.
There are times when I look ahead and despair for the future. Yes, I know such lines have been written for centuries, or even longer. But the symptoms they wrote about were not nearly so widespread, or - in most cases - so completely beyond intelligent understanding.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I really like what you come together with for plastic….mine is up @ Mama Bear Writes
June 4th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Very powerful piece. I got mine up on my “writing” site:
http://reneedaniels.wordpress.com
June 5th, 2008 at 9:20 am
What a poignant piece! I really liked it.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
WA - Those are the types of things I was thinking about when I wrote the piece. There are still beautiful things to be found in the world, but the sad things keep getting a lot sadder.
Penelope - Thank you.
Renee - Thank you and thank you for the link.
SAM - Thank you! I’m glad.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
That was great. You captured the frenetic quality of a culture gone mad with trying to be perfect.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Thank you.
I’m glad you like it.