CamelCase

 

{I had to think about this Friday Fictioneers photo prompt for a while before deciding how to approach it.  Thus the somewhat late entry.  For those of you who don’t already know, “camel case” is the name for the typographical use of capitals, to differentiate the important, meaningful parts of a single (usually compound) word.  It is especially often used in brand names.  For example, FedEx and, of course, WordPress.  Enjoy my little mashup of this term and the intriguing photo.  Thanks for the prompt and for coming by to read!}

 

 

Peripatetic Phil was a world traveler.

Trip after trip, he brought treasures home to his excited children.

Beautiful stones.  Filigree earrings.  Conch horns.  Panpipes.  Nesting dolls.  Scratchy wool mittens.

When they were young, Phil’s kids lionized their father.  He won “SuperDad” every year.

But his teenagers seemed unimpressed, when his last gift arrived.  In frozen form.  Stamped “Egypt.”

“Tastes like chicken!” he giggled, wiggling his fingers, and working his bushy eyebrows.

At his wake, people wondered at the overturned freezer in the garden.  And the odd smell, emanating from it.

His children never had developed a taste for travel.

 

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