Wednesday is link day for Six Sentence Stories at host Denise’s GirlieOntheEdge. Below is my Six Sentence response to this week’s prompt word, “scribe”. I also set the story in the California Gold Rush and told it in 99 words in response to the current challenge at Carrot Ranch.
Gold Dust by D. Avery
He pressed the lock of golden hair to his lips before returning it to the small pouch meant for gold nuggets.
That there were no gold nuggets hadn’t mattered. They’d both come to California as much for adventure as to find fortune. Then they found each other, and were soon imagining a future rich in shared plans and dreams.
Lucas
1825-1849
He paused in his carving, knowing that Lucas’ last name was part of the past he’d renounced back east.
Smiling through his tears, he finished inscribing the wooden cross, giving his own last name to his dear Lucas.
ShiftnShake 
You’ve set the atmosphere so well D. Great stories
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Thank you. I found both of these prompts to be tough. So I combined them!
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A challenging one 😍 Well done, love the plot. ✨👍
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Thank you Simon.
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well done on both – 🙂
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Thanks. Sometimes combining prompts gets a story going.
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well done
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This is very moving, Ms. D.
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Thanks Robbie. This came out different from what I had begun, not the story I started to write, but that’s ok.
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Wonderful article
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So much of our lives are bittersweet. (K)
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Yep.
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Sad but really good
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Thank you Larry.
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It’s a beautiful story.
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Thank you.
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Very touching Six, D.
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Thank you.
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Sometimes one doesn’t find what one was looking for. Nice scene with carving the gravestone.
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Thank you Frank. I’m glad that scene works.
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Can do this so well. I’m green with envy
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You not can
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Does it help your coloring to know that this one did not come easily? This is not the story I started out to write and then when it went this way it was not easy to get it to this place to six sentences to 99 words. Thank you for letting me know it worked.
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Not what I expected, but what a beautiful tribute. Smiling through my own tears here.
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It’s not what I was expecting either but I yielded to these characters and was happy for them to have discovered some gold in their lifetimes.
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Two prompts, beautifully combined into a moving tale. Very neatly done, D.
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Thank you. Sometimes it’s actually easier to have an added push in combining prompts. I thought ‘scribe’ was tough! Of course I have yet to read the other entries that will make it look so easy.
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I think there was a lot of head-scratching going on in Sixville this week.
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damn!*
I liked the story. Engagement, emotional content and simplicity all in a shortnth story. Very cool.
I also liked what you said to some of the others, how this was not the Six you were expecting on the first keystrokes. Surely that is the fun (and the horror) of writing, especially here in Sixville, where the car we’re careening down the backroads in is over-crowded with our friends.
* you know, a compliment on a story displaying a level of craft that I can only hope (and keep writing) to attain
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Ha! Sixville is my new favorite name for the magical place we come to every week, probably because of the description of it as an overloaded car on backroads. A familiar and friendly place, yet risks are taken.
Thanks!
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A well told tale!
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Thanks!
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A touching tale indeed. Well done!
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Thank you.
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Beautifully written, moving and showing what’s really important in life.
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Thank you.
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A sweet encapsulation of the love that dared not speak its name in those times.
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Yeah, this was no modern day San Francisco.
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That’s such a sad story, D. Very moving.
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