She called her Rosie when no one else could, she smiled at rainbows with her, she was as compassionate a woman as anyone could hope to find, she filled this world with a gentleness that can never be matched and when it came time to farewell her, Rosie didn’t cling, she didn’t fuss and she didn’t cry, she just smiled at her and wished her well.
Becky stood at the edge of the world and swayed her arms left and right, fingers outstretched and grinning from ear to ear and as the colours of the rainbow streamed down below her, each person burst into a giant lollypop, a traffic cone, a sunflower, a fern, a small nebulae, an elephant or a chocolate.
TAGS: harlequin, elephants, rainbows, giggling, lollypops, Becky the First, traffic cones, sway, nebulae, sunflowersYeah pal, I’m ready for whatever you’ve got, I started my day with a double rainbow and a sun shower, so do your worst.
TAGS: beauty, rainbows, sky, threats, sun showersJennifer had always wondered what to do with that single, lovely, red, rainbow-edged sock.
TAGS: rainbows, socks, museumsThe rainbow line of socks for hire swayed gently on the fence, seemingly aquiver with anticipation and foreboding.
TAGS: rainbows, anticipation, socks, aquiverThe little girl stood trembling at the top of the monstrously tall, scalding hot and gun-metal grey slippery dip, wondering how she’d ever get down from the nightmare, when suddenly a white-scaled, rainbow-feathered dragon came giggling and jingling out of a rip in the sky, swooped down towards her and plucked her out of the air.
TAGS: dreams, childhood, rainbows, sky, flying, adventure, nightmares, dragon, giggleBecky and her friends lay on their backs in the field watching the butterflies skywrite love letters in rainbow trails, surrounded by empty bottles, the case of ambrosia nearly finished.
TAGS: butterflies, rainbows, sky, ambrosia, love letters, BeckyAs Becky swayed left and right during her happy dance of many colours, the colours sprayed out in ribbons all around her and the white lorikeets singing loudly nearby were coated with the most beautiful, unbelievable array of rainbow-hued feathers.
TAGS: harlequin, colour, feathers, rainbows, singing, dancing, cheeky, lorikeets, ribbons, BeckyBecky slammed the doors wide open and strode outside to stand under the sunlight, fiercely wielding handfuls of rainbows as she searched the streets for the gravy of sadness.
TAGS: harlequin, rainbows, doors, sadness, gravy of sadness, BeckyBecky frolicked with her favorite wallaby among the rainbows and lollypops while in the distance the sound of automatic gunfire pronounced Ms. Jane’s opinion of the season.
TAGS: Miss Jane, rainbows, lollypops, gunfire, BeckyAfter thinking the matter through while sitting in the museum amongst the ancient dinosaurs and dusty books, the intelligent and pulchritudinous inamorata decided to dance all the myriad colours of the glittering rainbow.
TAGS: books, rainbows, dinosaurs, stacking, myriad, glittering, pulchritudinousBack in the scrineiverse, Mary-Beth knelt before the alter, placing tokens to represent the sacred icons of coffee, food, alcohol, pirates and words - later, she could never be sure, but she liked to think that the unusual rainbow that appeared in the sky and the way the flowers seemed to be dancing in the garden were a blessing from Becky.
TAGS: harlequin, rainbows, flowers, dancing, offerings, BeckyBecky was responsible for the rainbow and the dancing flowers, but she was also responsible for the short shower of sleeping gnus not five minutes later.
TAGS: harlequin, rainbows, flowers, gnus, BeckyCrush one spoon of buttons, blend into the dry bugs, gradually combine with the walrus, bake for one hour and leave Becky to dry on wire racks.
TAGS: harlequin, colour, rainbows, buttons, bugs, feeling, walrus, BeckyLet’s start with rainbows and then…, actually, that’s pretty good right there.
TAGS: colour, rainbows, crayons, whimsyAs the crayon was smeared across the paper, the rainbow filing out stripe by stripe, roy-g-biving all the way, there was also a picture of something else, someone that raised above the rainbow, who brought all the colours together and lifted them up and into the sky, and it appeared that she was holding three baby echidnas and a small snowdome or two.
TAGS: harlequin, colour, baby, rainbows, sky, crayons, BeckyJemima was so very disappointed when she found out that all her mother had ever intended was to sew cloth rainbows on the knees of her old jeans.
TAGS: childhood, rainbows, disappointment, knees, mother, sewing, jemimaNot ever have they failed to make me smile, not once.
TAGS: rainbows, joy, smileAs she leapt each ridge, the world around her changed suddenly, with the latest wave containing quite a collection of daffodils, some lovely little butterflies, a disturbing container of wax, one or two dozen bananas, a surprisingly big canary, and a whole field of roses.
TAGS: harlequin, colour, rainbows, surfing, BeckyNothing makes you happier than knowing there’ll be rainbow stripes involved.
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