The Casting SN2022 - staff just for fun

Shalou woke first, so she pumped the yam to store our day's worth of water.
Shalou woke me when she saw the glowing slash across the sky.

“I thought we had more time,” she said, holding her elbow and watching the sky.
“I’m not giving it up,” I said, “not now. Not after all we’ve been through.”
"They will come for you. My spirit. Your womb.
The demons will try to feed upon it,” she said, “that’s what they do.”

I always knew I’d had to use the braw bones. It sort of pisses me off, but that’s life.

Thanks for your submission

Appreciate it even if it is just for fun!
Johnny

a reply to: argentus

I find this fascinating and unnerving, argentus. I'm going crazy trying to figure out what braw bones are or mean. There's so much in those 100 words that I'm trying to look up, but coming up blanks. Is Shalou of Persian origin?

a reply to: Encia22

Thanks much! I have no idea what "braw bones" are. "Braw" is a term of Scottish origin meaning 'good or pleasing'.

P.S. "Shalou" is a made up name (as far as I know). It just popped into my head as I was rolling sounds around.

For giggles, I visited the online dictionary and found the following;

braw (brɔː; brɑː)
adj fine or excellent, esp in appearance or dress
pln best clothes
[C16: Scottish variant of brave]


... yeau I was curious too.

a reply to: argentus

What is meant by pumping the yam?
Is that like wheezing the juice?

a reply to: chris_stibrany

I was trying to create a term which suggested a dystopian time that was different from our own. It was their way of drawing water into a vessel. I don't have the details as to how it was specifically done. I just make up crap. The interpretation is up to the reader's imagination.

a reply to: argentus

eeneresting

a reply to: argentus

Thanks argentus. At least I now know I'm not totally insane.

a reply to: chris_stibrany

When I hit Google, like Johnny, I had some weird and wonderful results... mainly porn.

a reply to: argentus

Your imagination knows no bounds!

a reply to: Encia22

rofl

a reply to: Encia22

everything, ultimately, leads to porn. Thus is the geometric nature of the internet. ... ... .... in my very humble opinion.

a reply to: argentus

LOL, absolutely! I guess that's why Porn Hub is probably the real center of the Universe...

Titillation must be what powers out-of-this-world travels...

a reply to: Encia22

... and perhaps the very SPARK! Of LIFE! ITSELF!!

Oh dear. I fear I've traipsed into a Rocky Horror paradox.

That won't get better with age.

a reply to: argentus