Hey-lo lovely reader!
So! I was putting off my Jimpix dealings yesterday, as I have been pretty busy trying, trying, trying to catch up on housework and the washing pile, since my pelvis decided to give me a lot of pain and make me take it slower last week.
From Jimpix
But today I bit the bullet and just went for it to see what the god of Jimpix would give me. I had already decided that I was going to attempt to write a prose piece with the words and see where it took me. I had the idea at the back of my head that I might do the same tomorrow with another Jimpix selection and see if I could carry it on with the same characters?! Is such a thing even possible with this wild generator?!
I was surprisingly nervous about writing the piece at all. Blank page syndrome really kicked in!!
**I must point out here and now that I have only done rudimentary research into what the place I will set my piece in the grounds of looks like, and the services it provides. The following piece is entirely a work of FICTION and the characters are not based on anyone I actually know or have ever met! The area of expertise that the place in question specialises in is a very emotive and delicate one – I in no way wish to belittle that, just explore it through the characters I have created. The characters’ views should not be taken as my own**
I had to look up ‘remuda’ and just underneath it on the search engine appeared ‘Remuda Ranch’ – a treatment centre for women and girls who have eating disorders. It is in Arizona, so I immediately had to look up how long it would take to get there from Connecticut (as it was one of my words)…and so a wee story started coming together in my mind. I started the timer and off I went:
Anchor Remuda Flank Connecticut Kissing Stoic Renegade Offensive Triathlete
It had been a four-hour flight, then the drive, and now my head floated as if finally released from its anchor. Remuda Ranch, at first, looked tipsy.
Pins and needles scuffled in the whole of my left flank, but the air smelt like freedom after Connecticut. I stretched my arms towards the big blue sky, and got sudden images of a stubbled stable hand, pungent from leather and horse sweat, kissing me like his life depended on it…
Dad had been such a stoic through the whole journey, listening to mum rattling off all the benefits this beautiful place boasted for people like me. How much the other girls would take to my sweet nature and we’d get through it together. Dad already knew there was a high chance I’d turn renegade. I took after him, so he never found it as offensive as mum did.
Not even after I’d ditched the hunky triathlete at that Vegas alter last year…
Scribblings…gutted because my purple pen ran out half way through my time! Hoping I have another one somewhere…
Las Vegas is next door to Arizona, but waaaay across the map from Connecticut. What age are we thinking the ‘girl’ is? One must legally be 18 to marry in Las Vegas, but how easy would it be to fake an ID?
It would appear that the parents live in Connecticut, so why was the daughter so far away? Did she abscond in her summer vacation and get a job as a cocktail waitress?
It reads like her parents are wealthy, so has she stolen money and gone off to seek adventure, previously?
I’m pretty pleased with the piece. I think I will try to expand upon it tomorrow, dammit! 😉
Wish me luck!
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