The challenge? Write a story in 6 sentences, no more & no less, and if you’d like, share your creation or just visit and comment on others’ ideas, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Denise. The prompt is “Filter”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
She set the timer on the tea for three minutes and considered the slow colorful cloud that drifted its way to the bottom of her clear glass mug. She had a need for a healing raspberry tea after that visit to the emperor’s office, with her four-year-old son, Toby, in tow.
The babysitter had bailed, grandparents were all out of town, and the neighborhood co-op was brimful with chicken pox, so she’d had to bring him along to discuss the designs from the new clothiers who claimed to be from the magical land of Silkiana.
The emperor awaited her, preening, in his chambers, proudly dressed in the newest Silkianian concoction, strutting and twirling in front of his many mirrors, demanding “How do I look?”
Toby exclaimed, “Naked and fat!”
Sipping her tea, she had to laugh at her son, who had no filters; she’d wanted a new job, anyhow.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2021)
Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Return here, link your post Wednesday night through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers
PROMPT WORD: FILTER
Valley of the Trolls 
*chuckles*
:))
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Although not a tea-drinker, your Six was quite enjoyable in that it resulted in certain childhood memories acquiring an enhanced context. My father was a drinker of tea and, after reading your Six, the rituals that my memory now sees clearer, were very defiantly a part of his enjoyment of the beverage.
Good Six, yo
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This made me smile!
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Kids! Gotta love their honesty!
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Well done, very enjoyable!
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Thank you! I had fun with it.
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That’s how it should be–Fun! 🙂
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Ha! What a great retell!
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Thanks!
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What a great retelling! One never know what will come out of the mouths of children and the reactions that will take place.
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Keeps us on our toes, eh?😄
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Your Six brought a big smile to my face. No. Children have not “learned” about filters yet, lol. They’ll tell it like they see it!
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Tact comes later, but we hope the drive toward truth remains. 😉
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I like your retelling of the Emperor’s New Clothes especially with the added “fat” description of the emperor. Although I do always imagine him being fat.
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The illustrated fairytales we read as children show him that way, don’t they?
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So many thoughts! Good six. Love the name of your blog. Too many trolls out there. Also, Naked and fat…was that you standing outside of my garden tub window looking in? HA
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