Kevin's Watch

Due to my lack of recent participation, I felt a right proper response was due, and therefore have completed my penance with this submittal.

panacea cromlech buxom

Our perilous purpose to produce a pharmaceutical panacea for perplexing purple polyps would perhaps propose we purloin this peoples palatable portulent potion. Cautiously we crept closer to the center of the cromlech and carefully commandeered the crystal cruet containing the cruel concoction our caravan copiously coveted. As I benignly began the baleful barter of the buxom ballast, I blithely beheld the beauty of a bifurcated balance binding the baited booby trap before me.


Whew !


allogamous
anthracite
congruity

It Was ME, TRC who posted ( from a login point of view) prematurely.

allogamous anthracite congruity

The mad florist absentmindedly planted the crocus and hyacinth together, faintly hoping their allogamous offspring would be pretty, while absorbed by the soap opera on the decrepit television. Just as she was adding the special water, the TV screen went anthracite-black, and a horrible greasy smoke started curling up from the back of the set. The florist, superstitious to a fault, assumed the congruity was no accident, and threw the newly potted plant out, knowing it would be bad luck to keep it.

cynosure abrasive requiem

DW

cynosure abrasive requiem

The cynosure of the collection was a limestone statue of a kneeling figure with slumped shoulders. Either the artist, or time and sand, had taken an abrasive to the features, leaving the face dulled to indifference. The viewer found himself holding a requiem for life, before he had even found words for his subliminal reaction.


shiv
daisy
indolent

Grog impaled Unk with his Obsidian shiv, just for trying to take a piece of his dinner. This indolent injury would show cause to others to keep their hands to themselves. As recompense for his rude manners Unk presented Grog with a quaint daisy, showing there was still love within their unity.


pragmatic
gallimaufry
putrescent

pragmatic gallimaufry putrescent

The chef was a very pragmatic fellow. Instead of dogmatically preparing dishes via the published recipes, he rather efficiently improvised using similar foods in the kitchen at the time, resulting in the occasional gallimaufry being passed off as pure. He stopped this practice abruptly when given a horribly unfair review--"Imposter's Putrescent Pummeling of the Palate"-- by a notoriously Nazi-esque food critic.

candid arquebus hackneyed

candid arquebus hackneyed

The candid eyes of the dealer never wavered as he offered the prize of his stock to his visitor. A mint condition arquebus, guaranteed 14th century provenance. The visitor took this hackneyed tactic in stride, dismissing the claim with offhanded expertise.

velocity
inception
repotted

Yay! I finally managed to get one in before you zippy writers got there...

velocity inception repotted

The man turned to flee, not seeing his wife choose a potted ivy as her high velocity, husband-stopper missile. The pot crashed against the back of his head, violently ending the inception of his flight to freedom, but don't be alarmed. The plant survived and the wife repotted it that very same day.

Incipient
Loquacious
fruitcake


_________
-Michelle

Incipient
Loquacious
fruitcake

Justin was perplexed as the incipient form solidified in front of him.
He quickly became irritated when it turned out to be a loquacious banshee. Fortunately he was well armed with fruitcake, an old Creole Countercurse taught to him by his Cajun Grandmother.


hent
quandry
parley

hent quandary parley

The safari captain awoke to find himself strongly hent with ropes made from plant fibers. He decided not to dwell on the quandary of how he arrived in this trussed-up state with no memory of it happening. Instead, he tried to parley with the tribal chieftain in the hopes of regaining his freedom.

toffee lantern kris

You guys have been good while I was gone!! Michelle, don't waste all the work if one of us beats you to it, post it anyway.

toffee lantern kris

Checking his pockets as best he could, the captain found his most favorable bargaining prospect to be a bag of toffee. The chieftain held a lantern up to the bag and, after close inspection and a sample, pronounced it (indistinctly) to be insufficient. Permitting the chief access to his pockets turned out to be an error, because in the process his trusty kris was found and confiscated -- yet another hope confounded.


dingy
balloon
callous

dingy balloon callous

The mansion hall was looking dingy by the end of the week. It was up to the servants to deck it with a single balloon in order to spruce up its appearance for the coming party. Yet with a callous word by the house master, the single bright ornament was removed.

Oxymoron
Disenfranchise
Jellyfish

Oxymoron Disenfranchise Jellyfish

Painfully aware of the implied oxymoron, the young congressman walked into the Private Session for Global Public Policy Committee. Unless he was able to stop them, the members of the opposing party would successfully disenfranchise most of the American public. Regretfully, he could not rely on his colleagues, as they had recently revealed their jellyfish spines on similar voting issues.

spinneret vulgar evince

spinneret vulgar evince

A hundredth young spider raised its spinneret and sought the wind. A banner of white threads extruded from what the vulgar would call its “butt,” lifting the gossamer hatchling into a small, wild updraft. As the tugging sight of a clean, green expanse spread below, a faint desire to descend began to evince itself.

wrench
grail
surveil

wrench grail surveil

With a grinding wrench, the stone vault is unsealed, exhaling millenium old air into the statue-lined collonade. The rakishly-dressed adventurer peers inside the dusty opening, hoping to catch the first glimpse of the Grail, when the hairs on the back of his neck suddenly thrum. Slowly, without turning, he nonchalantly slides his hand to his hip holster, sure now that more than statues surveil his progress...

staccato frail abrade

staccato frail abrade

The staccato sound of the recording filled the lonely room. A frail note hung in the air like some ghostly presence. Soon the sounds of machinery next door would abrade the room's tranquility.

Termagant
Flaggelant
Communism

Excellent, Ur-Vile.

Termagant Flaggelant Communism

One termagant after another railed about the loose boards in the stockade. One flagellant after another agreed with their accusations and groaned in self-punishment. Exhausted and bloodied, they didn’t notice when the loose boards disappeared entirely and shadows crept in through the gaps; they merely awoke the next morning to find themselves governed by Communism.

mines
concentric
emanate

My god that was great, Joy! You surpass me!

I couldn't make anything come together from those words you finally took. I kept hoping someone could...

mines concentric emanate

Wrapping himself against the bitter chill, the soldier continued burying the mines. He stuck to a pattern of roughly concentric circles, finding it difficult to chip into the frozen ground of the field. When the cold itself began to emanate from his bones, he sought shelter in the lee of a rock and tried to revive himself with a pitiful Sterno fire.

arduous threnody whelp