One of the experiences I love best about Creative Copy Challenge is I never know where the words will take me.

The word prompt site has a weekly serving of 10 words or phrases. The challenge is using them in some creative post.

I’ve used the site to explore a love of detective series and to jumpstart sagging creativity.

Chocolate-Covered Memories

This week’s submission brought back chocolate-covered memories. My Grandma Wiggins had a sweet tooth to rival Willy Wonka. When I lived in California, my task was buying Grandma See’s Candies – specifically, apricot bonbons.

Grandma lived in Chicago at the time and the city did not have a See’s Candies.

Somehow the sweet tooth skipped a generation as I do not have that particular affliction. My mom does. Me? Not at all.

I thought Grandma was going to disown me when I confessed I did not like her cherished apricot bonbons. They were a ball blast of sugar that make my teeth ache just thinking about them.

What’s all this have to do with Creative Copy Challenge? Read this week’s submission and I bet you can guess where the inspiration came from. The Challenge words are in bold.

Creative Copy Challenge #383

The blast of cherry was a titillating delight of illegal proportions. Try as she might to fence off her cravings, Melissa silently moaned in ecstasy over the box of chocolate covered cherries.

Each bite sent succulent juices dancing across her tongue in a song of celebration. Calories were an insignificant foe in the battle against sweet surrender.

“Mine,” she growled, shoving her elbow into Marcus’ leaning body.

“Remember who bought them for you,” he rasped, rubbing the target of Melissa’s bony blast.

“I need a moment.”

“By then, they’ll be gone.”

“And your point would be?”

“Fine, I’ll leave you with your addictive device. But don’t blame me when your scale starts screaming in protest.”

It’s all about balance, Melissa mused. Who needed meals for the next week and a half when she had chocolate covered cherries to bombard her taste buds?

Ah, nirvana.

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