Carrot Ranch February 15, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story on ice. It can be an event on ice, a game on ice or a drink on ice. Go where the prompt leads you. Respond by February 20, 2018, to be included in the compilation (published February 21). Rules are here. All writers are welcome!
This follows “Ground Cover” from last week.
The previous summer she’d led him to Montreal after following him off the farm. Now the frozen river was breaking up, ice mosaics shifting, jostling, eager for spring.
He would continue west. Was she coming?
“No. I’m staying.”
She loved him. She loved the promise of the city more.
“Be careful.” He kissed her then walked away packing no more possessions than when they had first met.
There goes a beggar, naked
Except for his robes
Of Heaven and Earth
His oft quoted Kikaku.
What kind of a father might he have been, she wondered, stroking her swelling belly.
ShiftnShake 
I liked the first segment best. Thanks for not leaving us hanging, though. 🙂
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I appreciate the comment. Yes, the after ones are a bit forced and unfinished at this point. I’m trying to piece something together, maybe. It might make a bit more sense if you have read The Fold ( https://shiftnshake.wordpress.com/the-fold/ ) .
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Nyeh. I took them down.
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Not everything has to make sense… Even with going back to the first story.
99 words isn’t a whole lot of room for explanations or backgrounds.
And you can work with them or not, as it suits.
What makes sense to me in this story is that ‘He’ has a mission, and she’s letting him go…
Sometimes that’s a choice that ‘fathers’ will never have the opportunity to know.
Meaning what they leave behind when they have to burn a path forward without looking back.
I hope that makes sense…
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Well it all makes more sense now because there were two follow ups posted with the above and I have since removed them and revised the above. Your comments indicate that these were sensical moves.
Have a good day, Good Jules.
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Her life is a mosaic and maybe the design of it is not yet completed. I like these wandering lives you follow to capture their stories.
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A very interesting piece of flash fiction.
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Thanks Robbie.
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