I’m participating in the Friday Fictioneers for the first time. I hope to receive an honest feedback. I’m thankful to Rochelle for hosting such an event for all the writers.
Copyright – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
I’ve been standing here to look at the bench under the tree and I still see it’s empty. The last time I had seen her, she was playing with a piece of wood in her hands.
Her mum looked twice her age. The number of pens in my pen stand seemed less compared to the number of children in her family.
“So, she is not the last one.”
“No. One still on the way.”
“What will you do? I mean how would you manage?”
“Oh! No worries. She will be married by next autumn.”
“But she is too young. Don’t you think?”
“Young…we are poor. That’s all I know.”
Welcome to Friday Fictioneers!
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Thanks for the warm welcome, Louise.
People who appear here are magicians of words and I’m in no way close to any. Finally had the courage to jump the wagon and take the challenge.
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Good for you. Friday Fictioneers has really helped my writing improve, it just takes practice is all.
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I hope so too, Louise. Thanks for the encouragement. 🙂
Sorry, couldn’t reply soon.
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Dear Norma,
This is an argument for birth control. 😉
Welcome to Friday Fictioneers. I’ll warn you, it’s highly addictive. I started as one of the gang nearly three years ago and you can see where it got me. I was hooked at first write.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks for your time Rochelle, glad you could read and comment.:)
Thanks for the warm welcome. I always feared participating as the writers here are simply great. I must admit it was a challenge to write a story in just 100 words. I don’t know how I did it but I did it.
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Forgive me but I don’t understand this.
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Hey Joy! Thanks for visiting.
No problem. The owner is standing in the balcony and used to watch a girl play under the tree with a wooden piece. After some time the girl was not to be seen. So the owner asked her mother. The mother was poor and was about to have a baby and since the girl had stepped into puberty the family was thinking of getting her married. So a little about birth control and a little about the take on life from a poor person’s point of view.
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Okay! Thank you Norma for explaining it to me. Very good story!
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No problem Joy. Thanks for reading and commenting.
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Wecome! And a sad story reflecting some issues of universal concern.
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Thanks for reading and commenting, Sandra.
I wanted to write something happy but it turned out to be this way – sad.
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A story will be what it wants to be. 🙂
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Thanks for reading and commenting Sandra.
I too believe that the stories have life and it is much needed to let them breathe and flow in whatever direction they want to.
Sorry for the late reply.
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