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’25 A To Z Challenge – Z

This is the final episode of the 2025 A To Z Challenge.  I wanted to end the series with a bang, but this is what has become the standard, two-days-late, so I can’t do that.  Besides, it’s almost impossible, with a word beginning with Z.  I don’t want to go out with a whine.  I do enough of that without a challenge, so I decided to go out with a

ZHUZH

To make something more stylish, lively, or attractive:

It comes from a language/dialect known as Polari, originating in the mid-1800’s British theater workers, or gay community – often the same thing.

I’ve written about Polari before.  I finally, actually, saw/heard the word Zhuzh used, in a YouTube short.  We went to a party store, and bought a bunch of decorations to Zhuzh up the apartment for Christmas and New Years.  It sounds as gay as it looks.  I will not be using it in conversations or blog-posts – any more!

Some more (hopefully) humorous fibs will be coming up on Friday.  Hope to see you then.  😀

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Sick Of Fibbing Friday

Pensitivity101 gave us some sickness last week.  I’m returning it here.

  1. What is rubella?
    It’s the “Happy Ending” that lonely guys get, at those special massage parlors.

    2. What is Winter Fever more commonly known as?

The Mother of Spring Fever – not to be confused with The Mothers Of Invention.  A steam train engine is an invention – therefore Necessity is its Mother.

3. What is Scrofula?

It’s another term of endearment that the wife gives me, if I don’t brush my hair immediately upon arising.  People who live in glass houses…. Should buy thick drapes.

4. What is Grippe?

A French guy’s moist handshake.   🙄

5. What is Quinsy?

It was a highly successful TV show about a guy who hung around with dead bodies.  Americans will watch anything!  Where is Magnus Pike when we need him?? Still doing Thomas Dolby videos?   😕

6. What is St Vitus Dance?

It was the 19th century name for what became the 21st century’s rave.

7. What is Dropsy?

It’s a term to describe the result of my age-enhanced essential tremor at the dining table.  When I finish a meal, it looks like I passed the food up through the tablecloth.  😳

8. What is Croup?

It is the shortened, familiar name that Americans have given to the casino employee who rakes away your losings with a window-curtain rod, at a blackjack table.

9. What is Ague?

It’s a spirited discussion about whether or not there should be a letter R in that word.

10. What is Apoplexy?

It is trying to read something through the bottom of a soft-drink bottle.  That’s why very near-sighted people are said to have ‘Coke bottle glasses.’

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Flash Fiction #285

PHOTO PROMPT © Bill Reynolds

WOW

My creative git up and go has got up and went.  (What, again??!)  😳

Much as I would like to, I can’t always rely on Fibbing Fridays to end the week with.

My writing skills have flamed out.  Rochelle’s picture this week has left them as sere and ravaged as Yosemite after a wildfire, so this will have to be a WOW post.

The Word Of the Week is

Ischia

This is a Latin word for the name of an island in the Bay of Naples.  It is called that because it resembles the bones at the back of the pelvis.

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If you’d like to join the fun with the Friday Fictioneers, go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.