2 posts tagged “5 word challenge”

peculiar, kindled, squealing, promptly, jabbed

Not long ago while I was out camping in the mountains.  I wanted to get a fire  kindled and blazing brightly before full dark.  I heard some wild squealing in the woods about a 100 feet away.  I  jabbed at the wood chips and paper ready to strike a match and get things blazing.  Bright flames keep the bad things away, right?  This fire business wasn't such a good idea, so dangerous!  What?  Set the whole woods on fire with no guarantee that it would keep the boogeyman out of sight.  What if it was a bogeyman and not a four footed animal?  What then?  A blazing fire would only give the serial killer light to do his dirty work.  This camping out and roughing it was not as glamorous as I thought it would be; it really was down right dangerous.  I prefer electricity and deadbolt locks holding solid doors tighly in place.  Peculiar shadows and sounds began moving closer and closer.  I tried to run, tried to scream, my truck was ten paces away but I couldn't move, everything went into slow motion.  As a shriek ripped through my clenched teeth, I fell out of bed, promptly woke up from this sweaty nightmare to find a National Geographic special discussing the killing power of cougars.  There is a reason to keep the tv out of your bedroom!

After reading Banquo's soliloquy regarding Macbeth, I felt optimism that my television dumbed down students might discover the joys of Shakespeare.  However for many of them reading Shakespeare is as entertaining as watching a manhole cover do its job.