My Wordzzle Puzzle

Posted by SMM on 11:25

Missed doing it last week thanks to my amazing habit of procrastination. So this week I decided to do it asap.

He woke up. Looked around. Vaguely made out out something on the wall opposite him in the colour purple which said 'Puget Sound'. He heard some murmurs.He made out a fragmentary image of a machine making beeping sounds and a graph on the screen which was in a state of perpetual motion. A woman in a white dress and nurse's cap came running into the room when she heard the beeps and checked his pulse. He managed a croak and asked "Where am I?". She replied. "Well, Mr. Sen, you were monkeying around at the parallel bars last Sunday when you slipped and fell. You were lucky that one of our doctors were there too which was quite handy for you. You had an operation on your right hand." He asked her what day it was. She replied "Today is Wednesday." He felt that she was being rather evasive and secretive about something since she wouldn't meet his eyes. He asked for the doctor to show his gratitude. The doctor entered the room brusquely and told him "We had an option - it was either your brain or your legs. We took your legs." So that is how Mr. Sen has been confined to a wheelchair ever since and has become a manic depressive.

Howzzat folks?

30 Comments

Raven says:

5 July 2008 at 12:38

That would make me a manic depressive too... or at least deeply depressed. That was fun and well done. I'll add your name to Mr. Linky for you. Carletta couldn't find it. Were you able to see it?

Anyway, great job. Thanks for joining in.

Nirmal says:

5 July 2008 at 13:17

sorry gal..but i dint get it...wat r u trying to do..???

Akelamalu says:

5 July 2008 at 14:25

Oh dear no legs, but at least he's alive! Well done on the wordzzle. :)

SMM says:

5 July 2008 at 14:33

Raven: Hey...I thought I was done with the wordzlle only to see that manic -depressive was left. So I just added a sentence at the end to include the word :)

Nirmal: This is a game started by raven (link in my sidebar) were she gives a set of random words every Saturday and we weave them to form a coherent paragraph. That's my paragraph. hope you get it now.

Akelamalu: Heyyyyy. Well I am not an experienced a Worddzler like you. Still getting there :)

Clarence says:

5 July 2008 at 14:48

Got my attention almost straight away. If you were ever gonna write a novel something like this would be an excellent beginning. :)

SMM says:

5 July 2008 at 14:56

Clarence: thank you sooo much. Whenever I write a novel I shall make sure you get one of the first copies :)

Rià says:

5 July 2008 at 15:11

OMG!tht was such a scary and bad end! :( And it all sounded so real.

SMM says:

5 July 2008 at 15:17

Well maybe i could do a side-business snow of writing scary novel...the next J.L. Stine. what do you say Ria?

Richard says:

5 July 2008 at 21:20

Liked the story, but would have liked more detail. Like most of us when we start this you were rushed to use the words. The doctor seemed almost too abrupt.

It's kinda like the old joke.

A man asks his friend to take care of his treasured pet cat while he's on vacation. He asks that he call him every day and let him know his cat is OK.

This happens in good order for several days till the friend calls to tell him his cat is dead. In explanation he later tells him the cat got caught in the chimney and suffocated.

The man asks him why he was so abrupt. Couldn't he have let him down easier? Why didn't he say...
"Your cat is on the roof and I've called the fire dept to rescue him." Then the next day.."The fireman came and your cat jumped into the chimney; I've called a chimney sweep to rescue him." Then the next day.."I'm sorry old friend but your cat wasn't breathing when the sweep got to him."

"Do you see how much better that would have been?" "Yes", the friend replies.

"Well, what's done is done" states the man. "How is everthing else at home?" he asks.

"Well, your mom is on the roof...."

Anyway... Welcome and Great story

Rich

Carletta says:

5 July 2008 at 22:22

Certainly an attention getter!
Great job!

Raven says:

5 July 2008 at 22:48

I hate it when I think I'm all done and I realize I've forgotten a word. I breathe my sigh of relief only to realize that some awful, impossible word is still not included and the whole thing has to be reworked or tweaked. You did a great job.

Dianne says:

5 July 2008 at 22:59

Hi smm

welcome to wordzzle!

love the paragraph. very disturbing in a very entertaining way.

hope you wordzzle every week :)

Jeff B says:

5 July 2008 at 23:16

You brain or your legs, now that's a heck of a choice!

Bwahahaha...I loved it.

Jay says:

6 July 2008 at 03:41

Yikes! If I tried the parallel bars I would probably end up with two broken legs too! Poor guy!

Great job on the Wordzzle!

Kimmie says:

6 July 2008 at 04:27

Oh goodness, no legs??? That part made me feel all manci depressive! But hon I have to say, you whipped up a good little mini story, nice job!

Blessings,
Kimmie

Utopia says:

6 July 2008 at 17:59

i quite liked it :-)!

Keshi says:

7 July 2008 at 07:22

clever chick! :)

Keshi.

SMM says:

7 July 2008 at 09:50

Rich: Hey thanks for the criticism. I'l try the cat on the roof approach for the next wordzzle :P

SMM says:

7 July 2008 at 09:51

Carletta: You finally found me and thanks for dropping by. Hope to see you around more often.

SMM says:

7 July 2008 at 09:52

Raven: Thanks. This exercise takes me back to my creative writing classes in school

SMM says:

7 July 2008 at 09:53

Dianne: Well i hope next time I still manage to keep it enteratining but not too disturbing. Like I told Ria, maybe I should now start writing a crime novel aka J.L. Stine. I just might become the next J.K. Rowling? What say?

SMM says:

7 July 2008 at 09:54

Jeff: That was the sadist in me talking - Your brain or your legs?

SMM says:

7 July 2008 at 09:55

Jay: I should thank you dude for introducing me to Wordzzle. Stumbled onto your blog onetime and saw that you had done the Wordzzle, and that's how I went to raven's blog and got started.

SMM says:

7 July 2008 at 09:55

Thanks Kimmie :)

SMM says:

7 July 2008 at 09:56

Thanks Utopia. Btw you should do it too. It's definitely your cup of chai as well :)

SMM says:

7 July 2008 at 09:57

Thanks Keshi :)

Preeti Shenoy says:

9 July 2008 at 10:12

:( I happen to know people who are manic depressive.It is hell.