Nickel Novel
Title: Sound of Silence
By: Maggie Flathead
On a cold, autumn morning…
An old tree suddenly plummeted to the frozen ground below.
Its brittle branches, large and small, thrashed against an adjacent tree,
fracturing its numerous frail limbs as it fell. The shattered appendages
swarmed chaotically. Squirrels scurried from their nearly finished winter nests. Frightened
birds took to the air. When the mighty tree ultimately slammed onto the forest
floor with a titanic thud, the ground trembled, bark split, dirt swirled, and
ice crystals darted into the cold air like a well-planned fireworks display.
The thunderous echo of the natural event lanced through the tranquil
timberlands in every direction.
A father, who was fishing at the river with his son that
morning, heard the loud clashing of timber and quipped with a chuckle, “I
reckon trees do make a sound when they fall, even if we weren’t here to hear them.”
His son, who was busy sending a text message to his friend,
replied, “Huh?”
At 65 years old, this is my life now. I get word sexy!
Verbiage: a profusion of words usually of little or obscure
content. Speech or writing that contains too many words or that uses words that
are more difficult than necessary.
BAH! – I’d rather get word sexy. Go big or go home!
Finding the right combinations of words that will accurately
translate a writer’s creative ideas is not easy. So, what’s wrong with getting
a tad bit word sexy?
My definition of word sexy?
Word sexy is a phantasmagorical expedition to try and find
sets of words that have never met, but make them sound like they were always
meant to be together.
j/k
