Recluse On The Loose#carrotranch #littletittweaking

Posted on Aug 2, 2022 by TanGental

This week, prompted by the Carrot Ranch we visit Little Tittweaking to meet two spinsters, seeking solitude

August 1, 2022, prompt: Write a story that features someplace remote in 99 words (no more, no less). It can be a wild sort of terrain or the distance between people. What is the impact of a remote place? Go where the prompt leads!

Recluse On The Loose

Miss Ann Dree and Miss Ann Thrope are Little Tittweaking’s two spinsters. Both loath company and seek solitude. Miss Dree slavishly follows the concepts of local guru, Dee Poll, as revealed in her work, the Road to Remoteness, aka the Socio Path and keeps digging. Meanwhile Miss Thrope is inspired by that most famous work, the HHGTTG*. Adapting a technique for hiding from the Bugblatter Beast, she stays covered in her towel. While everyone knows she’s there and remains polite, when asked Miss Thorpe says she ignores everyone and ‘is not taken in by any of their old flannel’.

*the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy: ‘uses of a towel: [you can] wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you)’

About TanGental

My name is Geoff Le Pard. Once I was a lawyer; now I am a writer. I've published several books: a four book series following Harry Spittle as he grows from hapless student to hapless partner in a London law firm; four others in different genres; a book of poetry; four anthologies of short fiction; and a memoir of my mother. I have several more in the pipeline. I have been blogging regularly since 2014, on topic as diverse as: poetry based on famous poems; memories from my life; my garden; my dog; a whole variety of short fiction; my attempts at baking and food; travel and the consequent disasters; theatre, film and book reviews; and the occasional thought piece. Mostly it is whatever takes my fancy. I avoid politics, mostly, and religion, always. I don't mean to upset anyone but if I do, well, sorry and I suggest you go elsewhere. These are my thoughts and no one else is to blame. If you want to nab anything I post, please acknowledge where it came from.
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13 Responses to Recluse On The Loose#carrotranch #littletittweaking

  1. Annette Rochelle Aben says:
    Aug 2, 2022 at 3:06 pm

    I love these jolly romps through your mind!

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  2. Peter's pondering says:
    Aug 2, 2022 at 9:37 pm

    Space….is big. Really big. I suspect there is a whole universe of follow up tales!

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  3. JT Twissel says:
    Aug 2, 2022 at 10:33 pm

    A lot going on in Little Tittweaking!

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  4. Derrick Knight says:
    Aug 3, 2022 at 10:30 am

    Fun. I suppose a long footnote doesn’t cheat on the numbering 🙂

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  5. Norah says:
    Aug 4, 2022 at 12:28 pm

    At times I wish that Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal was right. The HHGTTG was one (of maybe many) books I just couldn’t get into.

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