Raven's Challenge 93

It is Saturday and time to play with words supplied by Raven's Wordzzle
This Week's Ten Word Challenge will be: spaghetti, woe is me, mythology, avarice, windy, pathetic, paper towels, water, all my children, books
And for the mini: best deals of the week, Nobel Peace Prize, sleep deprived, cauliflower, practice

The Mega Challenge as
The Ongoing Adventures of Agent 012

Agent 012 knew he was stuck with his windy mother-in-law until Christmas. Every day she told him what a pathetic loser he was. She had wanted her very special daughter to marry a Nobel Peace Prize winner not some bookkeeper who walked around like he was sleep deprived. The fact that she despised him did not stop her from giving him things to do for her. Today she had taken the paper and marked out the best deals of the week. She sent him out to buy spaghetti, paper towels, bottled water and cauliflower. Agent 012 hated cauliflower but she made it a practice of having her daughter cook meals he didn’t like.
The only respite the poor guy got was the hour in which she watched the soap : “All My Children” . She called it Twenty First Century mythology where the avarice and basic evil of modern man were exposed better than in any books.
Poor Agent 012 thought “ Woe is me! Where is a really good criminal when you need one”
This was not ending as a good year for him.

The ten word challenge
Woe is Me

Arvid Edward Noprize was a writer but not a very successful one. He had written three books but only one got published That one did not sell well. There was really no market for a book about the mythology of the modern soap as illustrated by the ABC program “ All My Children”. In his woe is me mode he blamed the publishing company and its pathetic attempts at publicity for its failure.
He held in his hand his fourth novel. This one was a real departure from his usual writing. It was a murder mystery entitled “ The Spaghetti Water Mystery”. In it his villain figures out how to commit the perfect murder using paper towels and the water that had been used to cook spaghetti. His killer is caught only because of his avarice and the fact that it was a windy day.
His publisher is excited and thinks this one might make the Book of the Month Club. But first he needs to fix a few things. As he thumbs through the manuscript and sees all the things underlined in red he realizes that those few things are going to take a long time.

The mini challenge
Woe is Me No More

The Book of the Month Award was not exactly the Nobel Peace Prize but to him it was even better. It meant that all those sleep deprived nights were finally paying off. He had hoped to reach this pinnacle with the first book in the series. But it fell short and was now probably part of the best deals of the week in a hundred bookstores. You know the practice. All the poor lost books are thrown into one big markdown bin for one last chance to get sold.
But his last book in the vegetable mystery series, “ The Cauliflower Killer” made it to the top. It would be a long time before it ended up in the bin. In fact some stores will resurrect the other two and sell them side by side with this one. There is nothing that succeeds like success.


Of course the dragons were busy today you can see them HERE.