Cockbill
Title: Cockbill
Prompt: Brewing
Words: 100
Points: The Watch
He filled the carefully warmed pot with five spoons of an inexpensive blend that never-the-less cost a week's wages. Nearby, his mother crusaded against non-existent disorder, fervent as any ideological champion. Her pride was a tangible inferno, determined to smite anything not conforming to the ephemeral Standards.
An officious man flanked by trolls entered their pristinely maintained residence, following a perfunctory knock, and countered the customary offer of tea with the abrupt command:
"Rent."
After their last penny was diligently displaced into the impatient grasp the guests departed, bearing away hopes for groceries but bequeathing a cooling pot of tea.
Prompt: Brewing
Words: 100
Points: The Watch
He filled the carefully warmed pot with five spoons of an inexpensive blend that never-the-less cost a week's wages. Nearby, his mother crusaded against non-existent disorder, fervent as any ideological champion. Her pride was a tangible inferno, determined to smite anything not conforming to the ephemeral Standards.
An officious man flanked by trolls entered their pristinely maintained residence, following a perfunctory knock, and countered the customary offer of tea with the abrupt command:
"Rent."
After their last penny was diligently displaced into the impatient grasp the guests departed, bearing away hopes for groceries but bequeathing a cooling pot of tea.