Read this story by Jane from WordPress. You’ll be delighted as I was. As soon as I get a handle on my time … very soon, I’m sure, I’ll be adding to this creativity on the net. For now enjoy a few items I gather at my leisure!
Microfiction of less than 200 words
based on the painting by Odilon Redon: la barque mystique
They took a boat, a blue boat with a yellow sail. Where could two runaway slaves go but the river? No one would chase them to the sea. Yet she shivered. He smiled and kissed her tenderly on the forehead, thinking to dispel her fears with his strength. He shrugged off the stories, but he knew nothing of the ocean. His people prayed for rain in the spring, died of drought in the summer. His land was parched; green was a colour he didn’t know.
Between river cliffs of yellow ochre they sped, until as evening fell, the little barque was borne out into the smooth ocean, green as glass. The current raced to the turquoise horizon, and thunder shattered the air into painful fragments.
What if the stories are true?
In her heart…
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