weekend exercises

Between a translation assignment and a little bit of volunteer work, I haven't stopped to create much over the past two days. Mind you, the six-word exercise on my Saturday is also fairly telling. So here we go, two six-word days, and a few random word stories...

Saturday: CSI marathon on Spike. Thank you.

Sunday: I still do not speak Legalese.

1. befall / metal / purvey / wise / physical

For years, the company he had built with his bare hands and ferocious capitalistic streak had purveyed the entire Tri-State area in ball bearings. Now, with the rising cost of metals and fuel, combined with the increasing encroachment of Chinese-made bearings, the wise patriarch of Roland Enterprises could only watch as his company’s stock plummeted, a cruel parallel to the ills that had befallen his physical health in the last week.

2. altercation / conglomerate / march / Prussian blue / liver

On her first day as Vice President of Product Development, she marched into the executive boardroom of the fast food conglomerate in her best Prussian-blue pin-striped pant suit. Across the table, the COO glared at her. An altercation was inevitable. Heads would roll. And, like her mentor, she would eventually have his liver with a nice Chianti.

3. exponential / ping-pong / square / pert / coup d’état

The crowd seemed to be growing exponentially in the town square, whipped into a frenzy by the pert blonde with the megaphone. For centuries, the tiny nation had been invaded and oppressed by neighbouring powers. Heck, the Chinese had even stolen the noble discipline of ping-pong and claimed it as their own. But no more; tonight’s coup d’état would set them free.