Catalog People

[aldersprig]

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Written to ysabetwordsmith‘s prompt.


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Every payday, Edrio very carefully opened the Sears catalog and very carefully placed an order.

It wasn't always Sears; it wasn't always a catalog.  Sometimes it was Penny's, although their catalog wasn't as

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[thnidu]

• Sometimes it was Penny’s,
-> [J.C.] Penney's

• The cape cod house
-> Cape Cod

• he would lay in bed
-> lie

[aldersprig]

Argh Penney’s.

And lay lie line… I hate those words. :-)

Thanks

[rowyn]

I have to look up lay and lie every time WHY IS LIE THE PRESENT TENSE OF ONE VERB AND THE PAST TENSE OF ANOTHER IT IS JUST WRONG.

[aldersprig]

I used to ask Anke all the time, because they’re different enough from each other in German that she doesn’t get them mixed up.

[kelkyag]

English isn't a proper language, it's a mish-mash of everything that comes into reach and a fair bit more that was chased down, pounced on, and mangled along the way. :}

[aldersprig]

I was trying to make Calenyena like that. :-D

Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

The more I read through the catalog copying, the more I thought "Adult children of dysfunctional families don't know what 'normal' is." Well played.

Re: Yes...

[aldersprig]

Thank you!

[clare_dragonfly]

Aww, poor Edrio :( I wonder how many other people's houses he's seen. Those people are real, too. (But then, maybe he doesn't have any way of knowing that.)

[aldersprig]

Both good questions! He might not now they’re real. He might not know what other people’s houses look like at all

[kelkyag]

Compare and contrast with Eva repainting the tone-on-tone runes in her (newly purple) trim. Somehow this feels a lot creepier, though even that is not without some creep factor.

[aldersprig]

I think I like tone-on-tone runes… :-D But this is a bit creepier, yeah :-D