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The Sunday Whirl  Wordle #678 Prompt words in red.  P L Chadwick / Ancient & modern in the Crypt at Buildwas Abbey What a ghoulish night . The buried arise from within the crypt to spin their spells into tricks. Tricks of the un- dead . The wicked wind wrap s it’s gnarly fingers into all living beings this ghoulish night . Forced to breathe in the frigid spell s, the tricks , this night . This ghoulish night , when un- dead things under wicked spells , wrap their gnarled fingers in the cracks of the crypt , prying their freedom, to wreak havoc, to spin in the wind and feed. What a ghoulish night to be dead or alive. ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

  The Sunday Whirl Wordle # 676  Prompt words in red.  image  This night , this Night of Night s, as the full moon rises, and the cat scratches to get in, the screeches in the walls rattle me. I stand before my kettle peering into its depth, into the simmering elixir within. The vessel is black with age, and ceased being shiny a century, at least, ago. Mist rises into the air, dampening the fringe of my tangled  locks . Slowly it gathers, swirling to form an image,  one long divined.   I  sigh , all my doubts allayed.  The image no longer mist, it solidifies into pleasing figures. Bird-like, yet not quite birds, my ghoulish swarm hovers, waiting for my command. This Night , this Night of Night s, we fly together. ©202 4 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

 Wordle 496   Prompt words in red.   to suppress the vote and lengthen the wait in line   with no water *   is not just a shame is an evil inhumane   designed to crush hope drain the spring in the soul   don’t trust them it’s always been about race   *As part of the so-called “Election Integrity Law of 2021,” signed into law March 25, it’s now illegal in Georgia to provide water or food to electors waiting in line.   In early voting for the 2020 Presidential election, Georgia voters in some precincts began lining up at 4:00am for what would become 6, 8, or even 10 hour waits.   ©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved  

 Wordle 493 Prompt words in red. High above the stage I walk along the catwalk , my hand sliding smoothly along the guardrail.   There had been a casualty last season, one a few years before.   I didn’t feel like bringing that number up to three .   Below me I could feel the rhythm of the dancers’ steps, moving in unity .   The powerful music rose and fell, an aural ebb and flow .     It was the premier of the new musical, Gates of Hell , debuting at the Furnace Festival at Leeds Playhouse.   The sets were all glass of fiery color befitting the festival’s name.   It took seven weeks to forge and hand blow all of the pieces, but it was worth it.   They flickered and glowed, or flamed to flare up into the rafters. The lighting tech was a genius! I should have kept my eyes off those glass fires, for at the moment the music reached a dynamic peak, I slipped, my hand useless to stop my fall between the railings.   They do say ...

 Wordle 490 https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/wordle-490/  Prompt words in red. In days you darkened, you call out “ fraud !” That doesn’t make you right , just loud. What you call proud words are sheer craven sedition . You can try to hide your failure , or deny your complicit treason , but, it won’t stay hidden long. Truth will as a storm breaking the rotten branch to save the tree. Afterwards the sun will shine again and the tree flourish.     ©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved