This week's words are:
pigritude: laziness
maleolent: foul-smelling
xenization: walking (or existing) as a stranger
Story:
"Oh no," Tim said, pausing the Xbox and turning down the volume on the TV to listen. "Is that my mother coming up the stairs?"
Mark shrugged. "So? I bet your Mom's nice. At least she's not a crack whore convict like my Mom. Did I tell you she got arrested for shoplifting again Friday, down at the---"
Both looked around as the door opened, revealing a fortyish woman draped in long red chiffon, hair piled high behind a jeweled tiara.
"Goodness gracious, Timothy! I declare myself stupefied, and shocked beyond words. Why must I ever open this door onto such a maleolent shrine to your persistent pigritude? Do you seriously mean to live your life in this disgusting manner, to spend all your future days in xenization, searching for someone who could tolerate either your sloth or your stench? Do tidy this offense to humanity at once, and open the windows, and when you're finished, child, your supper awaits downstairs."
She turned away in a swirl of red dress as she shut the door.
Tim sighed. "Sorry to hear about the shoplifting thing," he said, "but at least your mother doesn't write Regency romance novels for a living."
Mark picked up the remote. "Thank God."
Kensington Publishing prefers commercial fiction, and accepts nonagented submissions for its romance lines, including Regency romance.
Red Dress Ink is a Harlequin imprint they describe as hip, quirky, sexy, funny. Oddly it's not included in Harlequin's detailed submission guidelines and advice for writers, so perhaps it only accepts agented manuscripts, or is closed to submissions. I don't know, but there are plenty more writers' opportunities available on that page, including a call for submissions to Harlequin Historical Undone, their new line of short sexy historicals, just 10-15K words long. Hmmm... tempting.
But don't forget to stop by Quilly's today to read the chosen words in rarely-seen action.
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Visions of Joan Crawford and Mommie Dearest. I remember thescene in the movie where she makes the maid move the potted plant sees the ring on the floor and makes her scrub the whole floor.
I enjoyed this after a very bad day at work and a challenging day at home. Thank you for being you and there.
So Bill, I won't mention after whom I modeled the er, 40-ish mother and housewife in red chiffon....
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Thanks, Sandy! I hope tomorrow's much better to you, and for you!
Excellent and good use of the words.
I'm sorry, I never expected to read crack whore in any post of yours. It went right along with my evening though.
You can read about it in the morning when my post will be up. It's quite entertaining.
Good job, BTW!
Thanks Thom! It's not easy to make words like this sound natural is it; that's as big a challenge as using them.
Ashley, I can't wait to hear more!
Yep, just what I needed this evening! Don't know what I'd do without your version of Three Word Thursday!!! You are a creative genius!
Have a great -- whatever it is!
Sylvia
Thursday, Sylvia! ROFL
and, Thanks!
Damn. No point in the rest of us playing now is there. this is brilliant.
I quit.
...and thus I become the scapegoat as Quilly goes off, needing time to write the Undones that will make her fortune.
That's ok; I can take it.
As always, I enjoy your stories. I'm impressed that you got two of the words in to one sentence. Bravo!
I had to look up ROFL!
Great story -- I sent a link of your blog to my English teacher friend. I figured she'd enjoy it.
Hey, today is Crazy Mix and Match Day in Middle School. I thought of you; I have a pic of you, Mike and Ben (and I think Sam?) and you have on an outfit from OURS. Oh, to go down in posterity like that -- it's pesterity.
What a great use of those funny words! I love it
Thanks for such a good post!
Thanks Father Adam! Fandango manages to provide several sentences each week that use all three at once---amazes me every time. And, me too; I'm often googling abbreviations that everyone else seems to know already LOL.
Thanks Elizabeth, I appreciate the shout-out... don't know if I ever want to see that photo however! ROFL I was thinking of Ben and Mike just the other day. Wow, what laughs!
Thanks Dulce! I love old words, and some of the ones Quilly finds are just too wonderful to pass up.
That tickled me. Not liberally, I might add. But my mind.
It’s how I would imagine Stephen Fry conducts his daily conversations.
I love that man.
Loved the ending to this. Great fun.
Dan, Stephen Fry is my hero. LOVE him.
Thanks Anthony!
Wow! Great use of the words in a home setting. I just loved the ending.
Thanks Dr. John!
Very clever! Poor teen boys suffering through their mothers' second childhoods!
Southlakesmom, if you can't embarass them, what fun is parenting?? LOL
You did a fantastic job with the words Susan!
Thanks Akelamalu!
Another gem! I xenizise at work and have a metaphorically maleolent boss so I have taken a RDO today to practice my pigritude
You humans have such parental problems. Your kids are never happy.
Of course this makes for a great story. It really does.
Whoa, Baino! I should have prizes! And I'm going to claim 'practicing pigritude' for my next excuse when sleeping in LOL
Fandango, that's so true---this causes neverending stories in our house, to be honest!
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I seriously don't know how you do this. I would draw a blank every time.
LOL Kay, I *do*!! Every time I see the new word list, my heart sinks and I think, "oh LORD". Then I feel sorry for myself and eat cake until something comes into my head.
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