PHOTO PROMPT © Jean L. Hays
RETIREMENT VILLAGE
Wuz anybody famous ever born here? Y’alls gotta be jokin’! We wuz gonna have Thoreau Theodore, thuh weather-forecastin’ prairie-dog, but thuh little varmint wouldn’t come outta hiz hole. Wouldn’t matter if’n he seen hiz shadow or not, we’d jest git ‘nother six weeks of whatever’s outside.
Some Eastern dude retired here. Place useta be called Nowheresville – motto, “Civilization’s Thataway ->”. Folks renamed the town after him. Think he wrote a book – sumpin’ about fishin’ at some pond, ah think. Doan know why ennybuddy with a pond ta fish in, would come to a place like this, drier than a popcorn fart.
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Click to hear ‘Wild Horses,’ Canadian Gino Vanelli singing about parts of the US where the population density is so low, that you can be, “a hundred miles out of town.”
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
Great tale even better read out loud! Love the last few words – I’ll be using them at the first opportunity!
My FriFic tale!
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For your visit and kind words – use them in good health. 🙂
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That was so much fun, Archon!
Drier’n a popcorn fart, eh?
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Dad said that she was so prim, she wouldn’t say ‘Shit’ if she had a mouthful, but that little aphorism fell out of my mother’s mouth. 😯
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My dad liked that expression too!
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I read it out loud. Nicely done.
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I made sure to read it aloud after I composed it. It needs a verbal presentation to really be appreciated. I appreciate your kind words. 🙂
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Love the dialect!
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As a Canadian, I’m not sure about the presence of ‘y’alls’ in New Mexico. Perhaps the speaker is a transplant from Georgia, or South Carolina – but then, why would he leave a place with lots of water, to move here?? Glad you like it though. 🙂
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Great fun. Well done 🙂
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Thank you, Ma’am. 🙂
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Excellent voice! And with an ending like that, you gotta love it!
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Just poking a little fun at small-town folks like the ones I grew up with. I’m happy that you found it amusing. 🙂
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Great last line! Now I’m curious whether Thoreau ever made it that far west! Funny how self-satisfied philosophical movements don’t always fly, in the back of beyond.
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The only part I stumbled on as far as the dialect was concerned was “useta”–only because I wanted to pronounce it u-see-ta or u-seh-ta. A hyphen might prevent such misreads. 😊
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I hadn’t considered that possibility. There are a couple of other solutions if I decide to do this again. 🙂
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I’m not as unhappy with philosophy, as I am with the numbers of people who think that the debates and presentations provide solid universal answers, when all they should do is open minds to more options. 😳
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That was fun, and a great voice.
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Thanx for the visit. The dialect is only a re-creation of what I hear all too often, even here in urban wonderland. 😯
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Drier than a popcorn fart? I keep trying to imagine that. Nice story.
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When they squeak out, they’re so high that only dogs can hear them. 😉
Thanx for stopping by for a helping of silliness.
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I love how much I learn about the world in Friday Fictioneers. Thank you for adding to my cultural literacy as well as giving me a decent chuckle.
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Don’t take my word that Thoreau ever visited New Mexico! That’s the fiction part. I just noticed that the name of the village was the same as the author of the quote that Rochelle uses, “It’s not what you look at that is important. It’s what you see.” 🙂
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Great voice and great colloquialisms – from the popcorn fart to your comment above of “she wouldn’t say ‘Shit’ if she had a mouthful”.
The lines are as funny as “a one-legged man in an ass-kickin’ contest.”
Enjoyed it.
Randy
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I am always thrilled when people enjoy my esoterica. I got quite a bit of these colloquialisms from my father, who used them, and endless jokes, in his part-time job as a dance-hall emcee. 😀
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Brilliant! Loved the voice. And ‘drier than a popcorn fart’ made me laugh out loud. 🙂
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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