MFTS – Accept No Substitutions!
Here is my little story for Barbara Beacham’s Mondays Finish the Story. The supplied sentence is in bold in my story. To read this week’s other contributions, click on the little blue froggy!
From her small balcony, the witch watched the world go by.
She had no choice, actually. And the world went by really really fast. In fact, mostly it was just a blur. She could make out details, sometimes. When she’d cast the spell, people had clippity-clopped by on horses. Now they shot past in horse-less chariots!
It was that “time in a bottle” spell. Maybe she shouldn’t have substituted grapes for eye of newt? But eye of newt was awfully expensive, and grapes looked, well, roughly similar. She didn’t think the Goddess would notice, She was always so busy. And now the witch was the one trapped in time, her house the bottle.
Today, at last, the reversal spell was ready! She raised her hands, chanted… and with a thunderclap four hundred years caught up with her all at once.
It was weeks before someone found the little pile of dust where the witch used to be. Evidently, substituting cheap cotton for expensive silk in the “protection” element of the reversal spell was a no-no.
Thrifty witch. Sometimes you get what you pay for
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I was toying with the title “Tight-arsed Witch”. But I’m not sure “tight-arse” works in the US 🙂
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“Tight-arse” totally works in the US. 🙂
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I’m glad 🙂
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Sounds like me!! Great one!
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Hee 🙂 Thanks!
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That’s great!
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Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Geeze, she was too darn cheap to make her own spell work right. LOL! That’ll show that tightwad!
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Yeah, cheapskates never prosper 🙂
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Hahaha!
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Yes, we witches must be careful. 🙂
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Heh heh and yeeks!
I’m sure you use only the best ingredients 🙂
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Some people and witches never learn. Nice read.
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For sure. It’s always “it’ll be okay next time”. Glad you liked it!
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I did have to chuckle when I read this
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And also sympathise with the poor witch of course 🙂
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That gave me a laugh-out-loud treat with my breakfast. Thanks D-man 😀
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You’re welcome! I like to make people laugh 🙂
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Loved this one… The narrative kept me engrossed. Very entertaining 😀
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I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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I guess, sometimes one must learnt he hard way…even if that means sending oneself into a time warp. Very amusing story!
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Shame she didn’t learn from that mistake while trying to reverse it!
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Dude, I always love it when one of your story appears in my reader. They always make me laugh, this included. 😀
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Cool, I’m glad you enjoy my stories! Though the FF I have planned for today will not be a comedy 🙂
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This is why those fancy spells have all of those silly legal disclaimers… because some witch out there will be stupid enough to use them incorrectly.
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In this case of course neither she nor her relatives are around to sue 🙂
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Fun story! Sometimes being cheap can end up far more expensive!
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It certainly can. I sometimes try a cheaper substitute just to see, but this wasn’t a good area for experimentation 🙂
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Tut tut.. experiments with own self is a strict no.no. Good story.
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And not once but twice! Glad you liked it.
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You still have it, Draliman..MOL… Great story! Thank you for supporting us on our moving bloggie. That really meant a lot to us 🙂 Extra Pawkisses…*clippity clopped by on broom* 🙂 ❤
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I’m glad you liked my story! I hope you’re all moved in now.
I’d love to see a selfie of you clippity-clopping by on a broom 🙂
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Funny stuff, Ali. Apparently, you “do” get what you pay for. 😀 — Suzanne
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And this is certainly one area where it pays to get the specified items!
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This was fun! hehehe!
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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I always tell people — follow the recipe!! Just follow it 🙂
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Yeah, in this case it’s not like it’s just going to taste a bit salty or something if it all goes wrong.
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Oh dear those recipe substitutes will get you every time. Like using salt instead of sugar, baking powder instead of baking soda, so inedible! LOL Another good one!
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If this is how she treats something as life-threatening as her spells it’s probably best not to go round to hers for dinner 🙂
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A very amusing story, Ali. 🙂 Hopefully her folly became a warning to all other witches!
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It made the front page of “Witches Weekly” 🙂
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I totally get it. I have had similar experiences when using acrylic instead of wool and visa versa. Baa! 😀
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The cheaper alternative doesn’t always turn out to be a good idea.
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Masterly stroke Ali…. didn’t see that one coming! Fairy story and modern cautionary tale…. wonderful!
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It was a two for one this week! I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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What a good chuckle Ali! This was a fun story! One question though: What was the identifying factor that the dust was this witch and not another? Inquiring minds want to know!! 🙂 Thank you for participating in the Mondays Finish the Story challenge. Be well… ^..^
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I’m thinking some kids broke in and just found a pile of dust. Only we know what it used to be 🙂 Ageing 400 years in under a second can be hard on the body 😦
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There’s nothing like the real thing! Thanks for the chuckle.
My MftS tale is Willamena’s wish
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She definitely should have invested in some quality spell-crafting components 🙂
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Great work Ali ~ A whole new meaning of ashes to ashes ~ Save the cash and crash to ash!
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Ha, funny! I wish I’d had that for my title 🙂
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“But eye of newt was awfully expensive, and grapes looked, well, roughly similar. ” One must not be thrifty when practices “The Arts”…. Lesson learned!
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It’s never a good idea to muck about with spell ingredients 🙂
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