Prompts 1 & 2 for next reading, March 3

Here are the emails the writers have received so far:

Your mission is to write 250 words in the genre of your choice,
keeping in mind the theme THE FUTURE and to include the phrases:

With any luck, it will have been forgotten that I

and

cook the books

and the words

florid
dander
and
rend

Rules:
You must include all prompts.
You may change tense, person, number, or conjugation as you like.
Findings due by bedtime Sunday.


and prompt 2:

This week same drill, only:

And the thing I most fear may come to pass, that

and words:

granular
montage
tablecloth and
spurn