vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
repair 🔨

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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[starshipcat.livejournal.com]

I like to say that I have the honor of being at Meyer Horowitz's first comedy act. We were in Mrs. Goldschmidt's freshman English class, and Meyer had missed getting part of his homework done because of something that had come up over the weekend. Mrs. Goldschmidt answered that it was no excuse, given that he had known about the assignment on Thursday.

His response was, "So how am I supposed to have done it on Friday night?"

Mrs. Goldschmidt just answers, "You can't. The past is fixed," to which Meyer's comeback was, "No, the past is broken, and I'm trying to fix it."

Any other teacher would've sent him straight to the principal's office for discipline, but Mrs. Goldschmidt fires back, "Oh, a comedian."

I'm sure it was intended to make Meyer feel about two inches tall, but he just said, "Thanks."

The next thing we knew, he was polishing his one-liners on all of us, and in the spring talent show he did his first standup routine. Maybe he didn't have them rolling in the aisles, but it went well enough that he stayed with it.

[marycatelli]

Ah, the convolutions of life

[marycatelli]

"Let us head right," said Violetta. "It's not a maze, but that will give us a direction."
"We could travel in circles while thinking we walk in a straight line," said Giles.
"Very true," said Violetta. "Even without an enchantment. Look for distinctive trees, so we can mend our ways."

[marycatelli]

She could see for miles outside the kitchen door. The younger ones shifted about her as Kari, Lucius, and Edur moved in the kitchen, and Edur insisted that they could take nothing that needed repair, and Kari pointed out that a basket that could store food was better than food.