“A jabberwocky?” The sergeant’s eyes squinted with a hint of disbelief. “Are you sure?”
“Yes, sir. Down by the creek early this morning. Stew and I were just leaving from a night of catfishin’ and … and there it was…. plain a day.”
“Plain as day, you say.”
“Yes, sir. At least ten feet long and spikes all it its spine. And the awefulist hissin’ noises I ever did hear.”
“Hissin’ sounds.”
“Yes. Sir.”
“Did your fishin’ mate see it? Why isn’t he with you?”
“He shoulda seen it, but it disappeared in the brush right before my eyes.”
“So where is he?” The Sargent had that all-knowing look in his eye.
“He went home to sleep.”
“To sleep it off? A little too much nipping in the night?”
“Yes, sir. I mean, no, sir. The beast was real. I could’a reached out and touched him. Maybe even captured him, If’n I’d a mind to.”
“Now that would have made a lasting memory,” smiled the Sargent.
Written for Three Word Wednesday: #527. Requirements: Create a flash piece using the three words provided.
This weeks words:
Jabber, verb: prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, yap, gabble, rattle on, blather; yak, yammer, yabber, yatter, blab, blabber, bloviate; noun: prattle, babble, chatter, chattering, twitter, twittering, gabble, blather; informal yabbering, yatter, blabber.
Knowingly, adverb: deliberately, intentionally, consciously, wittingly, on purpose, by design, premeditatedly, willfully.
Lasting, adjective: enduring, long-lasting, long-lived, abiding, continuing, long-term, surviving, persisting, permanent; durable, constant, stable, established, secure, unchanging, irreversible, immutable, eternal, undying, everlasting, unending, never-ending, unfading, changeless, indestructible, unceasing, unwavering, unfaltering.
