A few days ago I wrote a short story about a boy called Jeremy. I received so many lovely comments about this story that I thought I would write some more about this character.
If you want to read the first Adventure of Jeremy, click here:
Keith Channing on his blog, Keith Kreates, hosts a picture blog, this weeks picture is below:
Here is his post:
https://keithchanning.wordpress.com/2019/02/18/kreative-kue-207/
and here is my tale:
Jeremy wanted to go outside in the garden and continue his quest for the holy grail, but it had begun to rain. Normally, he wouldn’t have worried too much, after all the Knight of the round table had to put up with a lot worse than a bit of rain, but he was supposed to be looking after his little sister, Jennifer, and she didn’t like getting wet. She didn’t really like playing Knights of the round table either, especially after the time he said she was a Damsel in distress and tied her up with a blanket, against a tree. Her cries probably scared away every bird and animal in the whole park. His mother had come running up and that put an end to that adventure pretty quickly!
He suffered a great deal of dispraise from his Mother for that incident. He would never have hurt her, he was just going to tie her up and then rescue her, but she was two years younger than him and didn’t seem to understand about King Arthur or his Knights.
So instead of his preferred adventure, he remained indoors. He picked up the folder that contained all his most precious documents, letters from King Arthur, sealed at the bottom with a piece of red wax, taken, with the tacit agreement of his Mother from the outside of some cheese he’d found in the refrigerator and melted down to provide an authentic looking seal. He’d used one of his dad’s cufflinks to press into it, to make the shape of a shield. He also kept some drawings he’d done of what Camelot looked like. He decided to take out a blank piece of paper and draw a picture of the Lady of the Lake, the mysterious lady who had given King Arthur his famous sword, Excalibur.
After a little while, Jeremy decided that he wanted something else to do.
Leaving Jennifer to play with her toys, Jeremy went in search of his chemistry set.
He had received the Chemistry set for Christmas, it had been something he had really wanted, that was before the desire to become a Knight had taken over. Unfortunately, when he came very close to blowing the house up with it, his parents confiscated his Chemistry set and hid it away somewhere. Now he decided that rather than be a Knight, he would be like Merlin and use his Chemistry set to create a magical elixir instead.
However, before he could complete his quest to find his Chemistry set, it was time for lunch.
Before he was able to enjoy his meal, he had to go into the garden and feed his pet rabbit, Gwenivere. He had found the little rabbit on his last quest and had begged his Mother to be allowed to keep her. She had only relented on the condition that he looked after her. So he took out some carrot tops and lettuce and gave them to Gwenivere, who was pleased to see him. Giving her a gentle stroke behind the ears, something she seemed to really like, he then ran inside to have his lunch.
Copyright: Kristian Fogarty 19/February/2019
This story contains the following word prompts:
https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2019/02/18/three-things-challenge-pl5/
Todayβs prompt: chemistry, blanket, mailbox
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/your-daily-word-prompt-dispraise-february-19-2019/
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/rdp-tuesday-garden/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/desire/
Many thanks, Kristian. Who would have expected so much complexity from such an a compleity from
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Many thanks, Kristian. Who would have expected so much complexity from such an a complexity from such a sweet, innocent-looking boy?
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It’s the innocent looking ones you’ve got to watch π
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I need a new machine! For the third attempt: Many thanks, Kristian. Who would have expected so much complexity from such a sweet, innocent-looking boy?
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π Indeed. Thanks Keith.
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Such cute adventures of little Jeremy. I miss being a child. π
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Me too. Growing up is so overrated. I wish I could go back and tell my teenage self that. π
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I have not read yet. I just wanted to tell you that I was so excited that I nearly spilled my coffee all over my white work shirt. π
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Lol, That’s great! I hope it lives up to such high expectations π
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It was awesome. I cannot wait for more. π
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I shall see what the word prompts are today and see if they inspire more adventures. π
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It is a good prompt.
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He is an adventurous little soul. Lovely story.
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Thank you. Yes he is, always exploring something new. He’d be a bit of a challenge though to his parents.
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I get that. But these kids are very intelligent too.
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As he is loosely based on myself and similar antics I got up to when I was a little rascal, I take that as a huge compliment. π
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Yes, you should. π
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