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A Winter Story, part II

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Well, this is embarrassing…

A few weeks ago, I was scrambling for an Idea. I’ve been remiss with my postings lately and I didn’t want another week to go by without putting something up. It’s not that I haven’t been writing—I’m in my (fingers-crossed) last couple of edit passes with my editor and outlining new projects—but when I’m in fiction mode, it’s hard to shift over to creative non-fiction. It’s what gave me my first idea.

I decided I would partake in an experiment and what is it they say about scientists who experiment on themselves? I wrote 100-word Story without preparation, something I don’t do. I hoped, rather than believed, that I would come up with the next 100 words two weeks later in time for my next posting. Over a holiday! Two weeks came and went and nothing came to me.

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It is a lesson I continually learn as a writer. I’ve had ideas for stories that were only atmospheric introductions with no plot ready, story endings with no idea how the beginning would work, and even names or single lines of dialogue I’ve loved with no story to call their own.

And that’s the gig. It’s not all writing jags and entire chapters that flow effortlessly, although there are those days too.

This was a very long way of saying I’m sorry for not finishing my story on time, but here’s what I have so far:

A Winter’s Story, part II

Bright light…

…filled the dark, cold house illuminating all the things the Woman had collected over the years. In the blink of an eye, every item disappeared—all except the star light. Sitting next to the light was a girl, no bigger than a doll. The girl’s wide eyes took in the empty space for a long moment while the woman dropped down to the bare floor, her hands confirming what her eyes beheld.

“It’s all gone,” they said in unison, although the woman said it as a plaintive wail and the girl with gleeful awe.

Both woman and girl were right…



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