Thursday, February 11, 2010

3 Word Thursday – A New Old Fairy Tale

Today is Thursday so we use Quilly’s three archaic words to tell stories.

Today's words are:


facinorous: extremely wicked
extirpate: destroy completely; wipe out; surgically remove
hebdomadal: weekly; every seven days
02Thumbelina had a hebdomadal routine that the Snow Fairy interrupted. That facinorous fey caused a blizzard to ravage Thumbelina’s neighborhood. Thumbelina looked out her window at the storm keeping her inside. She spotted a bird lying on the ground. The Snow Fairy had tried to extirpate all living things and it looked like she had at least one victim. Thumbelina wondered if she could bring the bird back to life.

Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina.
green butterflyI’d like to thank everyone for understanding the concept of yesterday’s post. 
It gave me the willies to let it go on air with all of the mistakes it in.
green butterfly

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23 comments:

  1. quillyThu Feb 11, 02:01:00 AM EST

    Darn that snow fairy anyway! What did those poor little birds do to her?

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  2. ScoManThu Feb 11, 02:26:00 AM EST

    This is brilliant. Well done. Again.

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  3. AnonymousThu Feb 11, 03:35:00 AM EST

    What a great story my friend. Very well done and written and the words are just perfect. I hope Thumbelina hurrys :)

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  4. ZuzanaThu Feb 11, 03:55:00 AM EST

    Aw, poor bird. I did not even know some of those words existed.;)Your writing is so artistic.;)
    xo
    Zuzana

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  5. ScarfaceThu Feb 11, 10:05:00 AM EST

    I think it's dead. But Thumbelina could feast on it.

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  6. Mike MinzesThu Feb 11, 11:35:00 AM EST

    ROTFL!

    Thumbelina rocks!

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  7. Susan at Stony RiverThu Feb 11, 12:13:00 PM EST

    So how's the weather there? LOL

    I hope Thumbelina can help the poor bird -- it doesn't look too well at all.
    :-(

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  8. Noe Noe Girl...A Queen of all Trades.Thu Feb 11, 12:43:00 PM EST

    oh no!
    <><

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  9. Together We SaveThu Feb 11, 01:39:00 PM EST

    Poor littl bird.... what will Thumbelina do now?

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  10. SouthLakesMomThu Feb 11, 02:06:00 PM EST

    I've been concerned for the little birds throughout this snow mess we've had, but I have to be resigned to the fact that some of them just will.not.survive. I'm just glad they haven't died where I can see them! Well done, Nessa!

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  11. AnonymousThu Feb 11, 02:07:00 PM EST

    Poor wee critter. Mayhap Thumbelina can breathe life into her...

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  12. julianaThu Feb 11, 03:11:00 PM EST

    aww, poor thing! it looks done in :(
    this gives another perspective to andersen's story

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  13. JuliaThu Feb 11, 03:31:00 PM EST

    Very cool!

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  14. inappropriatesueThu Feb 11, 04:06:00 PM EST

    A great piece, but even more so because I don't think my comfort level would be good enough to use them. I think I need a word of the day calendar.

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  15. AnonymousThu Feb 11, 05:13:00 PM EST

    poor bird! great post :)

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  16. Amanda MooreThu Feb 11, 07:47:00 PM EST

    this was great entwining Thumbelina into a 3 word Thursday tale, loved it Vanessa

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  17. UnknownThu Feb 11, 09:30:00 PM EST

    Brilliant!
    Poor bird.
    hugs
    shakira

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  18. SandyCarlsonThu Feb 11, 09:39:00 PM EST

    That is spectacular. You are an amazing writer. What a story.

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  19. JimThu Feb 11, 10:29:00 PM EST

    Poor little birdie. Maybe we need a new law to extirpate all bad fairies.
    ..

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  20. AnonymousThu Feb 11, 10:53:00 PM EST

    Clever, Nessa! And I'm sure Thumbelina can help the bird. :)

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  21. JeanieThu Feb 11, 11:21:00 PM EST

    What will Thumbelina do? Great writing.

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    Come over and claim it!

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    hugs
    shakira

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  23. AnndiFri Feb 12, 07:42:00 AM EST

    Poor wee bird.

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