I don’t want to miss an opportunity to wish the United States a happy birthday. We’re not perfect, no person or country is, but I believe we have the right foundations upon which to build and, when necessary, remodel.
Posts Tagged ‘missing’
Missing
Posted: July 4, 2021 in One Word SundayTags: #OWS, cormorant, fishing, fishing cormorant, Fourth of July, missing, One Word Sunday, One Word Sunday: missing, Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch
One Word Sunday…missing
Posted: May 12, 2019 in One Word SundayTags: lost sandal, lost shoe, missing, One Word Sunday, One Word Sunday: missing
for One Word Sunday
Friday Fictioneers…Missing
Posted: September 9, 2015 in Family, Friday FictioneersTags: family, flash fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Love, missing, remembrance
Recipe for a Friday Fictioneers story:
Take one photo.
Add some thought. (Amount is optional.)
Shake (or stir, James) to make 100 words.
Enjoy immoderately.
Serves one or more. No calories.
This week’s photo is from a Friday Fictioneers stalwart, Jennifer (ElmoWrites) Pendergast. I’m sure it has a much happier memory than the story I derived from it.
Missing
I miss my dad.
He took us on hikes where we found green frogs and slithering snakes, taught us to swim and always splashed us, gave us piggyback rides, told us stories.
That was before he and Mom started fighting.
Before her bruises.
Before she fell down the steps and broke her arm.
Before he was gone.
Mom made a pile of stones, one for every year he’s been gone. That’s where I go over the good times so I don’t forget them. Or him.
Mom said it’s a place I can remember Dad.
They remind me of a headstone.
This, that and the other thing 