“Look at all those eminences in the back yard.”
“What are you talking about? Speak English.”
“If you did crossword puzzles like I do, you would know I was referring to all the little mounds of dirt.”
“Oh, yes. We have a mole problem.”
“And if your furry, four legged friend lounging in the sun over there knew she was a cat instead acting like a feline eminence, she might go outside and kill the moles.”
“She’s an indoor cat and I don’t think it’s funny that you used the same word with its opposite meaning.”
“Glad you noticed.”
In response to Charli Mills March 26, 2019, prompt at Carrot Ranch Literary: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that uses the word eminence. It’s a rich word full of different meanings. Explore how it sounds or how you might play with it. Go where the prompt leads!
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04/01/2019 at 17:43
Oh cats, convincing their humans to treat them as if their eminence were like that of a king.
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04/03/2019 at 19:57
Your response made me chuckle. Thanks for brightening my day.
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04/02/2019 at 13:59
I liked this, Susan. I had to look up that meaning of this word.
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04/03/2019 at 19:58
I had to look it up also, hence, two meanings
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