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I wore my pretty pink dress; you told me I looked quite divine. Nervously I walk through the door, your ma wails like a banshee, but I clear my dry throat and try to talk. A spotlight shines brightly over my head - it's just like an interrogation! Quick questions fired like bullets fill me with dread; I want to run from the room and be sick Your mother is a monster! I pity you; and loathe the way she silenced your dad! Please come and live with me in the city or move into your own bachelor pad One day she could be my mother in law, I must zip my lip, or it could be war! S Form Contest Sponsored by Broken Wings Sonnet – 10 syllables per line, Scary theme chosen 07-22-17

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Arthur Vaso

Date: 9/3/2017 7:45:00 PM

This is hilarious!! oh and true!!!

Jan Allison
Date: 9/4/2017 4:06:00 AM

I had fun with the theme lol:-)

Gregory Richard Barden

Date: 8/16/2017 3:11:00 AM

Yikes! This reminds me of a frighteningly similar situation I had once ... penned so wonderfully! I love it, and congrats, Jan - you are so good with "ink and paper", my friend! ;-) <3

Jan Allison
Date: 8/16/2017 3:17:00 AM

aww Cheers Greg - looks like you had a lucky escape!:-) hugs jan xx

Eve Roper

Date: 8/15/2017 7:55:00 PM

Back to congratulate you on your win ~*

Jan Allison
Date: 8/16/2017 2:53:00 AM

Thanks Eve:-) hugs jan xx

Nette Onclaud

Date: 8/15/2017 2:46:00 PM

whoot!... sweet congrats on your award, jan.. soupie later!..huggs

Jan Allison
Date: 8/15/2017 2:47:00 PM

Thanks Nette:-) hugs jan xx

Dale Gregory Cozart

Date: 8/15/2017 1:03:00 PM

Congrats, Jan, on your win!

Jan Allison
Date: 8/15/2017 1:04:00 PM

Cheers Dale:-) hugs jan xx

Jean Murray

Date: 7/26/2017 3:53:00 PM

The mother in law from hell? You figured how to outwit her well Jan.

Jan Allison
Date: 7/26/2017 5:42:00 PM

I will say nothing about my late MIL lol... but some folks are a great source of inspiration lol:-) hugs jan xx

Pat Adams

Date: 7/23/2017 9:12:00 PM

I like this. Funny in a scary sort of way. Kind of a crap shoot what you get!! Good rhyme as all the time. 80] RPA

Jan Allison
Date: 7/24/2017 8:31:00 AM

Cheers Roger:-) hugs Jan xx

White Wolf

Date: 7/23/2017 8:07:00 PM

I'll remember that anagram! Great sonnet, Jan!

Jan Allison
Date: 7/23/2017 8:09:00 PM

ha ha ha WW yes its fun isn't it I found the quote after I wrote the poem but I thought it was perfect:-) hugs jan xx

M. L. Kiser

Date: 7/23/2017 4:10:00 PM

Ooh, that's rough. Great sonnet though.

Jan Allison
Date: 7/23/2017 4:18:00 PM

I am not a fan of the sonnet form but I thought I would try for the contest:-) pure fiction write thankfully:-) hugs Jan xx

Charlie Smith

Date: 7/23/2017 9:38:00 AM

If you follow a fat kid home you usually meet a fat parent. So, beware... Good write Jan, best wishes.

Jan Allison
Date: 7/23/2017 4:05:00 PM

Cheers Charlie:-) just written for the contest not from experience:-) hugs Jan xx

Tahira Parveen

Date: 7/23/2017 8:35:00 AM

Mother's in law Jan, mine was in a another country, yet heard its roar over here. thankfully not around anymore and him...lol :)

Jan Allison
Date: 7/23/2017 4:05:00 PM

Thankfully mine is a fiction write but i know other's can relate:-) hugs Jan xx

Eve Roper

Date: 7/22/2017 11:50:00 PM

wonderful write, I do not believe in the idea if you marry the person you are love with his the only one in your heart not the family....

Jan Allison
Date: 8/15/2017 12:50:00 PM

Thanks so much Eve sorry i missed replying before:-( hugs jan xx

Nette Onclaud

Date: 7/22/2017 9:33:00 PM

when you marry someone , you marry his whole family.. lol, jan, love the humor about'outlaws' here.. finely !.. huggs

Jan Allison
Date: 8/15/2017 12:51:00 PM

Thanks Nette sorry I missed replying before:-) hugs jan xx

Alfred Berggren

Date: 7/22/2017 1:15:00 PM

Maybe she be nicer to you when she gets to know you better. You think?

Jan Allison
Date: 7/22/2017 3:15:00 PM

who knows Alfred - thankfully it is a fiction write for a contest but I guess there are some real dragons out there:-) hugs Jan xx

Lim'Rik Flats

Date: 7/22/2017 9:44:00 AM

So sonnets can be silly too? (Well, at your house anyway;-) Docile dad... or deaf! Fun one!!! huggasnorkles ~ j Meet my mummy, she's not scary//Just cute fangs, a little hairy//You will love her//but kid glove 'er//should we ever marry.

Jan Allison
Date: 7/22/2017 3:17:00 PM

Well I am not a sonnet fan so any I write would be deemed silly lol I don't do romance so humour it is:-) love your limerick response lol hugs jan xx

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 7/22/2017 9:00:00 AM

- .... glad I was not in your shoes, Jan :) -Fun to read :) - Luck in the contest - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Jan Allison
Date: 7/22/2017 3:17:00 PM

Pure fiction for the contest:-) hugs Jan xx

Heidi Sands

Date: 7/22/2017 8:44:00 AM

Wow Very well expressed with this one Jan. Straight to the point :)

Jan Allison
Date: 7/22/2017 3:17:00 PM

Thanks Heidi:-) hugs Jan xx

Lin Lane

Date: 7/22/2017 8:23:00 AM

Tim says to take the high road, but I'd take any road that leads away from that scary woman. I see trouble ahead if she gets into that marriage bed. RUN!

Jan Allison
Date: 7/22/2017 8:33:00 AM

I bailed out of one relationship Lin - he had the mother from hell and I wasn't catholic which didn't help matters further lol:-) hugs Jan xx

Tim Smith

Date: 7/22/2017 8:18:00 AM

Yes, take the high road... you'll have plenty of time to talk about her later when she is gone. Who knows she might just be overprotective of her boy...but I doubt it...lol

Jan Allison
Date: 7/22/2017 8:32:00 AM

Oh I went out with a guy this Tim in fact we nearly got engaged lol but she would have been the mother in law from hell and I bailed out. He couldn't make a decision without consulting his mother:-( hugs Jan xx