vignette

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:

Flag

Anyone can join, with a 50-word vignette in the comments.

My venture:

He looked at the kids. For a moment, he thought of telling them to go through the records, and flag anything that looked odd. But they would have no idea what was odd, or normal.

He sighed. "Get some sleep," he told them. "We may need you to be alert."

Comments

[writerjenn.livejournal.com]

He was the kid who stuck a flag on the back of his bicycle, a tall vertical rod with that banner waving in the wind. We didn't know what to do when he pedaled by. Some kids saluted, first as a joke but later because it seemed the thing to do.

[marycatelli]

What else?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The elegant folk, who stood no higher than her knee, processed by, tiny bells sewn to their sleeves, singing and carrying their banners--purple flowers on thin, straight stalks, with spearlike green leaves--high.

"So that's why they're called flags," Tessa murmured, eyes following the bobbing blooms. "I always wondered."

[writerjenn.livejournal.com]

Nice! I considered this kind of flag at first, but couldn't think of a story around it.

[marycatelli]

Explains it nicely.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have even thought to do it if Mary hadn't used "flag" in the verb sense. Got me thinking of alternative flags. I loved yours--I'd salute a bicycle flag ^_^

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I like not only how your offering uses "flag" in the verb sense but also how it opens up into a larger adventure.

[marycatelli]

Thanks -- I'm trying to write a novel here -- because the ideas aren't responding to more conventional means of writing. 0:)

[marycatelli]

Three different usages -- we're on a roll!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Good luck--I know what it's like to wrestle uncooperative ideas.

[marycatelli]

thanks!