Raven's Wordzzle Challenge # 89
officer, candid, drowning, turtles, sugar-coated, prospecting, shame on you, reclinder, luggage, brains, paragon of virtue, cats-in-the-cradle, swamp, sprinkles, garbage
The Slumber Party Mystery
Chapter 36 – Cat's Cradle
Getting home on Saturday evening, John Skittles called up his friend Turtles, who was also a police officer.
"To be quite candid with you, I don't understand what's happening," he complained. "I thought I was solving a mystery, and then suddenly I seem to be drowning in a sugar-coated romance instead."
"Sounds like interesting prospecting to me," said his friend. "Shame on you for moaning about it! You know you always fall in love with a good mystery. Perhaps this time the mystery has also fallen in love with you! I suggest you lean back in your recliner and put those Sherlock brains of yours to some good use for once. Try and figure out what it is about this girl that attracts you."
"I have no idea," said Skittles, still in a grumpy tone of voice. "She comes with such a lot of strange luggage. Her grandfather's house is only part of it. The place is a veritable swamp full of garbage, in some ways. She's hardly a paragon of virtue herself either. And she's not in love with me, she's in love with that doctor. She said so yesterday."
"Ah," said Turtles. "The cat's in the cradle, and sprinkles of jealousy on top."
"What?" said Skittles, irritably. "You know I'm no good at metaphors, you always end up having to explain them to me."
"This one is kind of hard to explain over the phone, John," said his friend. "Cat's cradle is an intricate game, and it takes the combined efforts of two people to sort it out."
Later in the evening, Turtles emailed this web page to his friend John Skittles:
http://www.ifyoulovetoread.com/book/chten_cats1105.htm
I can heartily sympathise with you about escaping your own web. I've done the same thing to myself - twice now! What was I thinking! I think you could give the Slumber Party Mystery its own blog. I was in two minds about that myself but bit the bullet and did it - it had a whole 2 followers of its own now. I thought this wek's episode was really good, the way the words melted into it was terrific. I'm intrigued about what the mystery is though - if there is one, even.
ReplyDeleteWell, I must say I'm enjoying your story but I have stalwartly resisted starting one of my own. I don't know who to root for in this romance situation... I like both Skittles and the doctor.
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