vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
brainy 🧠

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

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[marycatelli]

"Those are the king's men," she called. "Turn me about so I can prove I'm the princess."
A shout of laughter came from the woods. "That's the clever lass who scared off half the duke's men?"
"Send for a courtier," said a man in a deeper voice. "You, Robin. And run. There can be clever treachery. And lasses who wear the princess's dress."
"With treachery or without," said another man.
"There are enough of the duke's men to fight still," said Master Gregor, coming up. "Imprudent to mingle our forces, but less so to not fight them."
"They're fleeing now."

[marycatelli]

"Could they be if you had just let them grow?" said Marcus, gravely.
Rae tilted her head to one side. "No," she said, thoughtfully. "The roses aren't any weaker than if they had grown more slowly. I should try growing oak trees."
"That would be a clever thing to do."

[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

The kids were in the dining room, playing some kind of game. From what I could see, it had a bunch of little blue figures on a board made up of tiled segments, and it involved dice, as well as cards that made me think of Magic: the Gathering or Space Race.

Katie shouted. "Who's got a Brainy Smurf card?"

That initiated a flurry of looking among her cousins, until Cather's boy Jase suddenly held up one. "Right here."

All of them read the card and worked out how to play it. Puzzled, I asked Toni Hargreaves what it was all about, since she was a game developer before she went to work for JPL.

"It's one of those new cooperative games, where all the players have to work together as a team to defeat a problem or menace. In this one, the kids all have to work together to help the Smurfs defeat the wicked Gargamel's latest nasty plan."