Weekly Pentina Prompt: Hiccups
Write a 50-word story about hiccups
Hiccups can be amusing or annoying, last seconds or — so we’re told — sometimes years. Hiccups aren’t unique to humans, either: otters, horses, squirrels, pandas and kittens, to name just a few animals, get the hiccups. (We don’t recommend trying to cure a bear of its hiccups by scaring it.)
Our favorite online dictionary defines hiccup as “an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm and respiratory organs, with a sudden closure of the glottis and a characteristic gulping sound,” but that’s not the whole story, is it?
Science tells us that hiccups are — you know what? Never mind what science says. We want to read how you weave hiccups into a 50-word story, a pentina.
Be sure to tag your story with pentina, and while you’re at it, add Pentina to your spellcheck’s dictionary.
