In just two weeks
On November third
America’s winds will shift
In the sky’s vivid hue
The sun will shine
For the first time again
In four years
My angry growl will be tamed
My nasty scowl it will devour
And alleviate
My hopelessness
And my anxieties
Written for these daily prompts: Ragtag Daily Prompt (gray turns to blue), The Daily Spur (growl), Word of the Day Challenge (vivid), Your Daily Word Prompt (devour), and Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (alleviate).
Isaac took off his glasses and rubbed his tired eyes. He stood up and walked into the kitchen where Hillary was preparing dinner. He knew what he was about to tell her would upset her, but he also knew that he couldn’t do what she had asked of him.
“How’s it going, sweetie?” Hillary asked as Isaac entered the kitchen.
“Listen, Hil,” Isaac said. “It’s not gonna happen.”
Hillary stopped what she was doing. “What’s not going to happen? What are you talking about?”
“I know how important your religion is to you, Hil,” Isaac said, “and I’ve spent the last four days locked away carefully reading the Bible.”
Hillary raised one eyebrow and said, “Yes, so?”
“So,” Isaac said, “it’s like reading a mashup of a fairytale and a soap opera.”
Hillary started to cry. “It’s God’s word. How can you say such a cruel thing?”
“I’m so sorry, Hil,” Isaac said. “I know you want me to embrace your religion and to share your beliefs, but I just can’t. It’s mythology and superstition and fantasy and I can’t take any of it seriously.”
“Then I can’t marry you, Isaac,” Hillary said.
“I know, Hil, I know.”
Written for Roger Shipp’s Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner. Photo credit: Morguefile.
The object of Paula Light’s Thursday Inspiration prompt is to inspire us “to write something creative, perhaps a poem or a piece of flash fiction.” And most of the time, that works for me. Unfortunately, today is not one of those times.
Paula’s theme today is “written.” That should be easy for bloggers like me because that’s what blogging is all about — creating stories and poems and posts using the written word. But something popped into my head when I read today’s theme and there’s nothing I can do to push it out.
So I’m just going to go with it. So let it be written, so let it be done.
Welcome to October 22, 2020 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It’s designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.
I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).
Today’s word is “alleviate.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.
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