WoW Weekly 100 words #5

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Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling

My friends Mulvaney and Otheris had gone on a shooting-expedition for one day. Learoyd was still in hospital, recovering from fever picked up in Burma. They sent me an invitation to join them and were genuinely pained when I brought beer- almost enough beer to satisfy two Privates of the Line... and Me. ''Twasn't for that we bid you welkim, Sorr,' said Mulvaney sulkily, ''Twas for the pleasure av your comp'ny.' Otheris came to the rescue with- 'Well, 'e won't be none the worse for bringin' liquor with 'im. We ain't a file o'Dooks. We're bloomin' Tommies, ye......

WoW Weekly 100 words #4

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

...... puts on a dress with a pattern of white plum blossoms against a robin's egg blue background. I wear loose white linen trousers and a navy blue short-sleeved top. T hen we pass the morning looking through what's left in our closet. It's in May's nature to spend hours at her toilette, choosing the right scarf to tie around her throat or purse to match her shoes, so she tells me what we should look out for and I write it down.
It's late afternoon when we pin on hats and pick up our parasols to protect us from the....

WoW Weekly 100 words #3

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Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

we'd never see the Badly Drawn Map, Oz Memorial, Colour Garden and rabbit before our train departed, and pointed out that not only did Vermillion's museum have the best collection of Vimto bottles anywhere in the Colective, but on Mondays and Thursdays they demonstrated a gramophone.
"A fourteen-second clip of "Something Got Me Started", he said, as if something vaguely red-related would swing it.
But I wasn't ready to conceede my choice.
"The rabbit's getting pretty old", I persisted, having read  the safety briefing in the How Best to Enjoy your Rabbit Experience leaflet, "and petting is no longer mandatory"

WoW Weekly 100 words #2

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Geisha by Liza Dalby

All the houses located on the east side of Pontocho have wooden platforms in back, extending out over the wide river bank. These square verandas are strung with paper lanterns in warm weather for geisha entertainments. Summer has traditionally been thought the best season to appreciate Pontocho. Bright lanterns swing gently in the breeze off the river, and at dusk the Eastern Mountains look like an ink wash painting in which each receding mountain pales to a lighter shade of gray. Every Pontocho teahouse has invested in air conditioning, which does a more thorough job of cooling than a river.....

WoW Weekly 100 words #1

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From Mustn't Grumble by Terry Wogan:

Charles wears his emotions on his sleeve- the British expect imperturbability, if not stoicism, from their once and future King. Charles expresses his emotions and opinioons freely: politics, architecture, farming, the environment. Nobody has elected him to speak on their behalf, and he has no qualifications, but he expects to be listened to. He wants to be one of us, but the first among equals. His problem, and indeed that of the siblings, is that nobody has ever disagreed with him. Surrounded, as he has been all his life by sycophants and courtiers, who has ever sayed him nay?