Bamboozled
By Deborah J Lindsey
“Honey, I’m afraid you’ve been bamboozled. Ed Shanks is nothing more than a “hot air artist.” He’s not going to marry you and walking the coral fence without falling really doesn’t qualify as gymnastics.”
Sixteen-year-old
Marney looked full into her Mama’s care worn face. “Mamas’ as old as the ark
and twice as dreary.” She thought. Ed
was “going places” and he promised to take me. “Mama just didn’t like him
because he was a yank.”
Mama reached
out to touch her daughter but Marney shook her hand away and turned her
back. She certainty wasn’t in the mood
to listen to Mama quote some parable about a seed sower or some such rot. Hadn’t she heard that stuff every day of her
life?
Marney
huffed her way back to the farmhouse.
She climbed the stairs to her room and took out a small suitcase from
the closet. She pulled a few items from the chest and then remembered Grandma’s
lucky coin. It wasn’t a rare coin or worth anything more than just face value
but Grandma said it was lucky and that was good enough. Marney took the coin, tossed it in the air
for the flip- “heads” she left- “tails” she stayed.
It was
“heads.”
Marney started
to pack in earnest. She was surprised by the hot tears that stung her cheeks. Marney looked at the dolls that sat on the
window sill. They seemed to to mock her
with “I told you so” eyes.
“Mama doesn’t
know anything!
She’s wrong!
Ed isn’t a “hot
air artist”! He’s afraid of heights!
He’d never even go near a hot air balloon.”
Marney
smiled, Ed was a long-haul trucker who drove a reefer cross country. He wore
a fedora like Indiana jones and he loved her.
“He will
marry me.” Marney whispered.
She looked
at her dolls again and wondered which one would like to go. She chose the one with the Olympic
Medal.
C Copyright
June 2017 By Deborah J Lindsey
6/6/17 Word List Prompt
Write what ever you want, about 200-500 words. You have to use
the following words: (You can change tense, make it plural, etc., as long as
the root word is there.)
reef
coin
bamboozle
fedora
dreary
ark
gymnastics
yank
seed
coin
bamboozle
fedora
dreary
ark
gymnastics
yank
seed
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