This piece was written for the Six Sentence Challenge, with the prompt word of ‘charm’.
Freddie Stare was a fabulous finesser of foot-tapping fantasia, with his fascinating rhythms filling the gravity-free firmament after he found Fionnuala Fagan, the famed fox-trotter from Fenagh.
However, in recent times, he’d decided he could fare well without fair Fionnuala and was making a fine fettle of flying solo on his seemingly-feathered feet and was often to be seen playing footsies with a wide array of footloose floozies.
Not to be fobbed off, Fionnuala furiously fanned her desire for fatal revenge and fossicked through files on pharmacology, seeking to distill a phial of foul poison to fix Freddie’s fate, knowing full well he would return to the fold in the future.
She made up a tincture of fenugreek, fennel, feverfew, fo-ti root and food-poisoning salmonella and disguised its fetid taste with fruit juice and fizzy Fanta.
Inevitably, Freddie became fatigued and grew too floppy for fandangos, fornications and frolics so he presented himself to Fionnuala, with fraudulent fork-tongued promises of faithfulness, in order to charm her into ministering to his frail and failing frame, for old friendship’s sake.
Fionnuala was not to be fooled by Freddie’s flattering fakery but feigned concern and bade him drink her felicitous tincture, which she said she’d named in his honour as Freddie’s Fantasia, and soon after Freddie fell flat on his face and Fionnuala fed him to the fiery furnace.
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Fine bit of fabulous fabrication for this fiction writing festival of Six Sentence Stories, Doug!
Whew! Let me catch my breath…don’t know how you do it, Doug but keep on doin’ it 😀
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Thanks, Denise, I will, even if only to fill Volume 2 of Raving and Wryting. 🙂
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Well that was a tongue twister Doug 😀
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What, like ‘I’m not a fig plucker or a fig plucker’s son, but I’ll pluck figs ’til the fig plucker comes’.? 🙂
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Excellent word-play! I found myself wondering if the prompt word was ‘F’ 🙂
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Thanks, Reena. For me the prompt word is simply something to fit in to what I feel writing anyway. 🙂
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It happens with every one 😀
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ahh! a conceit to which I freely admit… more’s the challenge to find a place for the prompt word, surely every bit the purloined letter* of the wily Sixarian.
* hidden in plain sight
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🙂
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I still think you should have made the cover work for the print version. And I need it signed. 😀
… now, to figure out how to write that as all f alterations..
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Alliterations*
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Feasy peasy, fair fraulein. 🙂
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Re the cover, I agree but I couldn’t seem to get my version to transfer into Kindle’s cover generator. C’est la e-vie. 😉
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I’ve got it, by the way. Now, to find a few seconds to read!
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Thank you so much, Chel. That means a lot to me.
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A fabulous frenzy of ‘f’s, Doug. I’ll be popping over to Amazon.
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Many thanks, Chris, so greatly appreciated.
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sufferin succotash*
Nicely done, yo.
An ‘A’ for Effff. ort!
*provide your own voice-over of Mr. E Fudd courtesy of Looney Tunes
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And an A for the funny punny response. 🙂
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You’ve given ‘using F words’ a whole new meaning! Flippin’ fantastic!
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Thanks, Keith, glad you enjoyed it.
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Nice phrase: “fraudulent fork-tongued promises of faithfulness”. Among all the alliterations on the “f” sound the ending seemed appropriate: “Fionnuala fed him to the fiery furnace”.
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Flippin’ fabulous!
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Thanks, Mimi 🙂
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Flattery fools the uniformed, but ferreting out falsehood affords flavorful F-U’s. Yay, Fionualla..High Five!!
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Oh, FFS, Fliz. 🙂 Glad you had fun with this flim flam foolery.
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