If you have been following me for any time, you will know how I love words. I particularly like challenges where we are given a prompt a word, and a specific number of words to use. This post was originally published on May 30, 2015.
This post is in response to the 100 word writing challenge from
Velvet Verbosity where we are asked to write 100 words
inspired by a single word prompt. This week’s word is SMOOTH
Hot, so very hot; panting like a dog and oh the pain; if only someone would make it go away and then she could concentrate on why she was here and what she had to do.
But the pain was never-ending and the noise – could that be her voice she could hear yelling obscenities ?
Suddenly there were smooth, calming hands on her forehead and a gentle voice said ‘It’s OK Mrs Jones, only a few more pushes now.”
And then she was back in this stark hospital room with doctors and midwives encouraging her as her son’s head appeared.
Note – Shortly after this post was published Velvet Verbosity’s site was unavailable/missing but it recently has re-emerged. The last post was in June 2022. The site has changed course; my suspicion is that it’s another author.
JB, WELLINGTON, NZ
MAY 3, 2023
I choose how I will spend the rest of my life 