Thanks to Ted Strutz we have a very thought provoking picture prompt for our Friday Fictioneers. Thanks also to our NEWLY RETIRED!!! leader. Congrats to her for starting a new and exciting life as writer/illustrator. Now, here is my 100 word story.
Once she was my rock, but now she’s gone all wonky. See? Day after day she wears a pillbox hat, one she felted herself for Christ’s sake, with scenes of the alps in screamin’-green and electrified-pink. And the dress (yes, entirely hand sewn) is dandelion-yellow silk decorated with small pieces of plastic cut to resemble rhombus window panes.
The necklace? you ask. Handmade?
Indeed! Tiny figurines she sculpted herself, people she loved, still loves or will love, she says.
I am not among them.
She hums, I bring her dinner. Winks, I bring her wine.
Tomorrow she’ll be serving herself.
Up From the Ashes 