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Valencia the Vivacious Vizcacha

April 25, 2013 By: Patricia

Blogging from A to Z April Challenge
 The ABCs of Behavior and Emotions

Valencia the Vivacious Vizcacha

“Eh, Valencia baby, what you doing?” Vulmaro the Vain Vizcacha preened and posed as he waited for Valencia to notice that he was looking particularly spiffy today. He’d fluffed his long tail and brushed his whiskers. He knew he looked so fine.

Valencia hopped up on a rock and did a little happy dance. She kind of liked Vulmaro in spite of his putting on airs, but he didn’t know the right words to seduce a lady vizcacha as voluptuous and vivacious as Valencia. I mean, really, she thought, who says, “Eh, baby, what you doing?” instead of something truly sauve and debonair like, “My dear Valencia, you are the most beautiful and most spirited vizcacha I’ve ever met. Would you care to join me for a stroll?”

“Vulmaro, honey, you need to dust off your lines because you are not getting anywhere with me until you do. I have places to go, things to do, and vizcachas to see.”

She did her little happy dance all the way around Vulmaro, flipping his fluffed-up tail as she passed.

Vulmaro watched as the vivacious vizcacha of his dreams danced on down the road, a little hop here and a little hop there.

Valencia, on the other hand, didn’t even look back to see if Vulmaro was watching. She already knew. She did an extra hop and clicked her hind paws together. It was good to be alive. It was good to be happy. And it was extra good knowing a handsome fellow like Vulmaro might be thinking hard on better ways to woo her.

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Comments

  1. Lynda R Young says

    April 26, 2013 at 3:24 am

    hehe, I like this. Wooing right is important 😉

  2. Patricia Stoltey says

    April 25, 2013 at 4:42 pm

    Brian — piece of cake. Stay tuned.

  3. briankaufman1952 says

    April 25, 2013 at 12:40 pm

    This was a good one, Pat. But I’m looking ahead…the countdown to “x.”

  4. Julie Flanders says

    April 25, 2013 at 11:57 am

    I love Alex’s comment too, LOL. What a fun little story. 🙂

  5. Patricia Stoltey says

    April 25, 2013 at 9:02 am

    Don’t you love seeing the totally different male point of view on this one? Alex, your comment made me laugh out loud.

  6. Alex J. Cavanaugh says

    April 25, 2013 at 7:58 am

    Actually, she sounds like a lot of trouble.

  7. YVONNE LEWIS: says

    April 25, 2013 at 7:15 am

    Wonderfully written Patricia which brought a smile to my face.

    Yvonne.

  8. L. Diane Wolfe says

    April 25, 2013 at 6:12 am

    She was preening big time.

  9. Margot Kinberg says

    April 25, 2013 at 6:10 am

    Pat – Oh, this one made me laugh! Any male (of any species) who starts a pick-up line with, ‘Eh, Baby, what are you doing?’ has got to re-think his approach!

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I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. My most recent release, In Defense of Delia (Five Star/Cengage, November 2022), is available in hardcover and will soon be available in ebook and trade paperback. Read More…

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