Tag: Shade
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The hourglass…
This was inspired by a Creative Writing Ink photo prompt. I gaze out beyond the palms, to the beach where we first kissed. The cool breeze on our sunburnt faces as we lay snuggled under the shade of a sea-buckthorn bush, it’s branches swarming with ripe orange berries against the azure blue sky. It had…
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Prisoner of the ‘shade’
This is my second attempt at Flash Fiction. We were given ‘shade’ as a prompt and another 150 word limit. I wanted to write about a girl who was allergic to sunlight; focusing on her desperation to escape her life, to find normality somehow, somewhere, even if short-lived. I belong in the shadows, a bleak…