Over at According to Hoyt, they’re having Sunday Vignettes. The object is to write 50 words (exactly 50, if possible) on a given prompt. Today’s prompt is ‘alchemy’. My own humble contribution:
I went Midas one worse. Everything I touch is transmuted. Food turns to metal when I try to eat. The love of my life is now a lifeless statue. Everything in my house is hard, shiny, and useless.
But I didn’t even get gold.
Anybody want fifty tons of zinc?
Scrap metal dealer seems the obvious choice.
That was… amazingly clever. My goodness. How did you do that? Fifty words on a random topic, and they hang together with such force and cohesion. Bravo!
Aww, shucks, ’twarn’t nothin’. The idea just came to me; I couldn’t produce that on demand.