In some systems, sometimes requiring appropriate tools, the right words can do anything. Sometimes they form rhymes, sometimes they are just a phrase, sometimes it is the true names of things that give you power over them.
I’ve tried them all.
So I was surprised to see an advert in the paper for a correspondence course and summer school in learning the words of magic.
I wrote off, attended in person to get the pronunciation correct.
I spat out snake oil and cracked weasel words but only found magic in the words spoken with someone met on the train home.
Written for the 100 Word Challenge on Thin Spiral Notebook; the prompt was the word, Words.
I’ve tried them all.
So I was surprised to see an advert in the paper for a correspondence course and summer school in learning the words of magic.
I wrote off, attended in person to get the pronunciation correct.
I spat out snake oil and cracked weasel words but only found magic in the words spoken with someone met on the train home.
Written for the 100 Word Challenge on Thin Spiral Notebook; the prompt was the word, Words.
Ah.. the magic of finding the right person to talk to.
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