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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to jenne and ceayr‘s bloghop, the Unicorn Challenge.
The rules are simple. Write a story inspired by the photo of the week. Keep it to (or under) 250 words. Pretty simple, isn’t it?
It isn’t. But here’s the photo and our take. Be sure to read and comment at all the entries and tell ya friends.
The hillside grew to his right with each sneakered-step. The level ground, worn into the primordial hill did not threaten, nor did it ignore. It merely became more and more unavoidable.
The center of the lane, at first step, a broad thoroughfare. It offered adventure and companionship; surely, to the young there can be no more direct expression of the gift of life. Not yet ten, the sources of instruction in the world beyond home are few in number. Catechesis, surely the more effective, just behind sordid cautionary tales from big kids.
The grass growing in the lane evidenced an increased vitality. The beginnings of an inchoate dissonance began to grow as the hillside loomed, the shoulder of a friendly adult blocking the heat of the sun and the view of home.
The cabin, set into the hill, looked interesting and, in a certain way threatening; unfortunately experience in the most important contexts, i.e. life, does not favor the young.
The door was open, curiosity elbow-wrapped caution around the a young neck and darkness ate the boy’s innocence.
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“How was your day?”
The loving words of his mother filled the kitchen with welcome and taught the boy the first lesson of Sin: ‘Participation is nine-tenths of condemnation’.
“OK”
And the second, even more insidious wisdom: ‘What they don’t know can’t hurt you’.
“I think I’ll just go to my room and read until dinner.”
* says it right here: (God said, ‘What Day is it? Friday?!?! Lets get this party started!)
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