I’ve missed a couple of weeks lately but I made it this time and early too. Julia’s prompt is ‘As the apple fell’ and I’m hoping she won’t mind that I’m adding a photo.
Repair Job
‘And this is our newest sculpture, perfect placing eh? We were lucky to get lottery funding,’ he said, puffed with pride, to the journalist who squinted as someone dashed towards them.
‘Ah, here comes the artist now.’
‘It’s striking,’ the woman from Gardeners Globe said, ‘I like the way the Raku makes it look, uh, well a bit rotten.’
‘Raku, I don’t make Raku, what the . . .?
‘Jim?’
‘I tried to glue it’
‘Jim?’
‘Thought I’d caught it but ‘twas wet see? Wet clay soil and I slipped as the apple fell off me wheelbarrow.’
The artist and gardener were equally flushed.
Lucid Gypsy 
Nothing like a little pompous art-speak to get the story off to a good start! 😉 No wonder they wound up flushed.
nice work -Ive been on the computer for over a week=sick-then the cable got messed up, I had 977 messages piled u, so obviously I wont be able to do a lot-still not well-rough week. Hope you are doing well–beebeesworld
Ha ha
Artists and gardeners. Oh my.
Great take on the prompt. Caught out!
LOL…I’ve known some people like this
sort a new twist on “rotten to the core”? “If it is broke, do fix it”? “A glued apple a day will keep the press away”?
Very cute, Gilly! Surprising, how mistakes can create art. 🙂
oops! this made me chuckle…a very unique take on the prompt. nicely done!
This made me smile. Beautiful story !
Nice humorous take and well done. Loved Jim’s accent. Not overdone.
Hehehe. Loved this one, Gilly. 🙂
Loved this – wonder if the gardener kept his job… Nice photo to accompany it!
If breaking and glueing improves your artwork, that’s a bit of a shock I guess. Lol.
Deft and amusing. But what is Raku?
Thanks Anna , Raku is a form of ceramics 🙂
OMG … I can just imagine their faces. This was a cute portrayal of
what can happen with clay. Very nice, Gilly.
ha ha ha – I liked this, it gave me a good chuckle. Wonderful take on the prompt.
This got me smiling. Thanks…. Good work.
Nice one
Good one Gilly! I can believe some hifalutin art critic going into raptures over the ‘rotten’ look 😆
A cracking good tale!