The 100 Word Challenge for Grown-ups: part 2

 

So last week we had to write the first half of a 100-word-mistle. The second half of our hundred word Christmas Challenge is reserved for finishing off the piece that someone else has started. Thus Ventahl Theatre and  Midlife Single Mum have written the next installment of The Mail, which I wrote. And I chose to try and follow on from Robin Hawke’s List:

Dressing: Oysters and cornbread or sausage and thyme?
Dressing: Satin bows or green-minded brown paper?
Dressing: A cornucopia of fruits and nuts or candles in holly?
Dressing: A wreath or a new coat of paint?

During the season of dressings, I’ll lift skirts to find cheer and my blessings.

With this:

As the clock strikes, the season changes. Now there is undressing to consider. Once thrilling and hastily done, it is more of a chore: the last skirt to be lifted covered the unsightly tree base. Underneath: one sausage (half-eaten), one satin bow, two nutshells. One wreath of pine needles.