“Mum says she’s doing very well”, said Anna, “I mean, I don’t know how much money she’s making yet but they’re all talking her up like she’s the next big thing.” Anna was chatting to Paul about her sister, Zara, who had just published her first children’s book.
– How’d she even get a book out there? Those two always seem to struggle just to survive, so how come she managed to publish a book?
– Well I expect mum and dad helped them. And she’s keeping it in the family – she talked Dan into illustrating it for her. Looks pretty professional, by all accounts. She *did* say she would send me a copy, dozy cow.
Dan was Zara’s husband. The two of them had met at Brighton University – he had just completed his course when they realised that Zara was pregnant. Little did he know that his Fine Art degree would qualify him well for his new career as a children’s illustrator!
Out of uni and eager to earn whatever he could, Dan was now managing a bar in Brighton. Things were very tight, especially with a pregnant girlfriend and a baby on the way. And when their second son had arrived, the world of art had had to take a back seat as Dan concentrated just on keeping the roof over their heads. Even then, some months they had needed to rely on Zara’s parents.
– Meh, by the sounds of things she’s got plenty to be keeping her busy.
– Yeah, right, I’m only her big sister, after all. She soon remembers me when she wants a babysitter.
– Oh, stop whining. She’s a young mum with two toddlers to look after. Can you really blame her if she forgets things sometimes?
– Yeah, yeah, yeah
sighed Anna. “That reminds me…”, she uttered, as she double-checked she had taken today’s pill.
for Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of 28 August 2020, survive.
I wrote a back-story to these characters in these posts:
Mister Bump 
Oh man remembering “the pill” ugh
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Do you know, that’s the bit where I was guessing. Just because I was struggling to remember. It seems weird now, doesn’t it? Popping a pill when there’s nothing wrong with us!
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This is a light and fun one. Well done.
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Thanks, Mason. I didn’t know whether to post these guys two days ina row but I had a poem in my head when I got up this morning, so published that one too. I bet there would have been some good people-quotes for today’s word but I didn’t look.
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I think you did very well today. Do you have a specific place to look for quotes?
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people-quotes? https://www.brainyquote.com/ A lot of them are by people we’ve never heard of, though. I also have some pages of jokes from people like Tommy Cooper, Bob Monkhouse, Les Dawson etc. but I often forget to look.
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Thank you for sharing,
Bob Monkhouse and Les Dawson were amazing people weren’t they. Their material is priceless.
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http://www.jokes4us.com/peoplejokes/comedianjokes/bobmonkhousejokes.html. That site has a few comedians on there but it does not have a keyword search function so you end up just browsing and get sidetracked by all these jokes.
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That’s not very helpful. You need a search bar or you’ll never get anything done lol.
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On my browser, I can search on the page but that’s kinda at the very limit of my eyes. It helpfully highlights all the results only I struggle to see them 🙂
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Yeah sometimes those highlights are terribly clashing with the word colour aren’t they. THen nothings readable.
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Thank god my days of the pill are over.
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It’s funny another woman made that exact same comment. I had no idea that people felt it was so onerous.
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Yeah, it’s a bit of a pain. Had its benefits too though, I have to admit 🤣
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It seems weird now that people actually popped a pill when there was nothing wrong with ’em 🤣
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It does!
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