I was given this book for my birthday? Christmas? Hmm..
Each page has a title and 15 words you can use in the body of your story.
Here we go: someone finds a magic cloak left in a laundry mat
16 words: fold, clothes, steam, pocket, return, cover, customer, wash, dry, invisible, veil, hood, sorcery, magician, abandoned, enchanted (I’m not totally crazy. The instructions say 15 words. But the list above is 16. 🤔
Okay, I miss read the prompt. I thought it said clock not cloak. 😂 So I get to rewrite it later.
Someone finds a magic clock left in a laundry mat: here I am again. How am I ever going to save money for a new washer when it costs $2.50 to WASH a load and at least $1.00 to DRY. My frustration was building with each piece of clothing I FOLDed.
STEAM smacked me in the face when I opened the dryer to check the POCKETs of my jeans. ‘Come on, be dry.’ CUSTOMER after customer filed in to pay their penance to the laundry man. My jeans were not dry; RETURN to the ENCHANTMENT of the electric dryer, eating my hard earned quarters.
“Hey, is this yours?!” A hooded MAGICIAN yelled at me over the hum of the dryers. His face COVERed by a VEIL of shadows created by the HOOD. On a drying table was a clock. The kind found on old mansion mantels; ticking the seconds away.
“No.” I answered surprised for I had not seen or heard it before now.
He yelled at the attendant; “be gone with this SORCERY. Someone must have ABANDONED this evil thing. It’s ticking feels like someone is punching me in the stomach with an INVISIBLE fist.”
The attendant and I locked eyes for a moment as the man clutched at his stomach. I jerked my damp CLOTHES from the dryer leaving as fast as I could; the worth of a quarter be damed.
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