V is for Vatic and Nicki Elson's Vibrizzio

For this year's A-Z Challenge I have selected a word from the dictionary for each day and written a story around it with a 100 word limit. For extra interest I have chosen words that are unknown or unfamiliar to me. All definitions are from the Oxford Dictionary & Thesaurus 2007 Edition. Today's word is: Vatic.

Vatic: (literary) Predicting what will happen in the future.

Chelsea normally kept her vatic abilities to herself. When she’d told Roshana she was going to break her leg falling off a horse, her former friend had laughed, then blamed Chelsea when it happened. And the visions didn’t always come true.

People didn’t want to know. But this was different. The entire school would be packed in the stadium like sardines, helpless when the ball was kicked to unleash a fireball that killed and maimed them.

Kickoff was in half an hour. She wasn’t going to go... But ridicule be damned. She rushed out without a word to her parents.

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V is also for Vibrizzio, the enticing new release from blogger friend Nicki Elson!

Mini-blurb: "Lyssa Bates doesn't need a man. Not when the world is fully stocked with double A batteries and a wide array of options in Amazon's health and sexual wellness category."

My honest reaction to the blurb (as requested by Nicki!): Maybe us men could get together and hide all the batteries!

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Hope everyone has a great weekend recharging their batteries for the final leg of the Challenge. Four days to go - we can do it!