Under winter’s marbled evening sky begin walking; keep going though snow is now falling, is rapidly covering your tracks.
Go to know the cold that winter brings, and to know also the dark; walk into the night and feel the sting and smart of the cold on your face and hands, then the dull ache of it creeping in all your limbs.
Go further; go till you no longer feel even the dull ache, go until you are numb to the cold.
Walk that far.
Then, shrouded with snow, stumbling in the dark, sinking and flailing through drifts, find your way back; return.
Only now can you know what it is you want from the warm glow of light in a window.
This six sentence story written for Unchartered Life under the Radar cue word “marble”.
Love it! Winters marbled… very good.
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Thanks.
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Very descriptive!
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Thanks. I am glad you liked this.
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very evocative.
sadly I must again stand outdoors as my limbs become wooden and fingertips inert with the cold, as my blood capitulates to the assault, retreating within to preserve the essential organs.
(see what your excellent wordage done gone and did? encouraged me to get all poetic in my commentationing).
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Beautifully written, boys. (I think of you as three) You’ll never be left out in the cold.
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Your SSS is so poetic and I love it! Sometimes it takes going into the dark and into the cold to get one’s bearings.
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Exactly. Thanks for reading and for “getting” it. I appreciate your coming by.
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Not only summing up how nice it is to finally get out of the cold and appreciate the warmth but also of life itself.
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p.s. I liked your use of marble.
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That window means nothing if you only know it from one side. Thanks for the visit.
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I love the rich colors of a gray winter sky.
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Marbled sky is a lovely phrase. You now have me thinking of marbled chocolate. It is lovely that glow you get from a window on a cold night. You have captured it.
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Thanks, Irene.
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So descriptive that I felt I was walking with you. Delightful
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Well thanks for coming along. Now get in out of the cold. See you next time Keith.
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Ah, I came back and found ‘it’ in the list on the side.
To know what we need and desire. Is there a difference?
Nicely paced.
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Instructions for the heroes. Beautiful walk into winter to appreciate the light of a warm window.
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