The spell of landmarks

 

Mrs Shorthouse asked, ‘Do you sell dreams? I’m in urgent need of one on onions for a nightmare recipe.’

‘S'il vous plaît  Madame  répétez.’

She fished out her spell book but, unfortunately, it was the silent edition.

‘Madame?’

Annoyed, she turned him into a tower. I believe it’s still there.

 

Random Word: Red onions

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You like tomato and I like tomahto…

 

 

Lord Oarlock liked the La Tomatina, with its splish and splash of tomatoes on virginal naked skin so much so that he funded one for his local village garden-fete. Unfortunately, owing to a misunderstanding, the tined tomatoes resulted in legal charges that made it expedient that he remained in Spain.

 

 

 Random Word: Tomatoes

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Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar

 

 

 

A famous Freudian psychiatrist wrote about mountains as a keen mountaineer but his class knew it was just latent homosexual sublimation.

 

 

 

Random Word: Psychologist

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In the empty morning, a magnum is all he's got

 

 

‘I can see fingerprints in water and fiery steeds.’ The traffic cop looked at his boss, looked again and started to back away slowly.

 

Random Word: Fingerprints

 

 

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On seeing Worm's Head

Visit Mr.Knowitall to post your own Friday Flash 55 word story or poem! Also a post for Sunday Scribblings on the prompt of Wait

It was on the rocky slopes,
as I recall, west of Swansea
on the way to Rhossili Bay
with the wind set to wet
when we met too soon
our eyes for others
made me a fool
and you so cold
so we passed on by
until our time and place
of the midnight moon.

 

Random Word: Rocky Slope

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Phone booth adverts

  

 

I’ve worked with snakes so “snake handler wanted” was on the money.Was I a fool. The snake he pulled out wasn’t the kind I handled.’

 

 

Random Word: Divagate

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A lettuce a day, and no child‘ll appear

 

‘It is reported that young newly-weds were sat in the garden for a light green salad - it being cook’s day off.  When the gardener had said, “Ee lad, eat that and thou’ll fire blanks”.

That the young lady smiled knowingly, we are given to understand, caused the couple’s estrangement.’

 

 

 

Random Word: Lettuce  

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