Saturday, 22 June 2013
'The Man at the Fair' by Daniel David Webber
She walks home from the park holding a purple balloon, the last of the sun’s rays golden in the sky. She skips slightly, a happy walk for a happy hearted girl. To be admired would have made her day complete, but to be admired and be given a balloon by her admirer was the stuff of fiction. An event she yearned for and read about in her short romantic novels. Michael was his name. Purple wasn’t even her favourite colour and the rational part of her brain wondered what a thirty two year old woman must look like walking home with a balloon but for now she didn’t care. A smile, a stare a balloon from the man at the fair. The ride was starting again.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
FlashFlood 2023 is OPEN for submissions for one week only!
We are delighted to announce that we are open for submissions for FlashFlood 2023 from 12:01 a.m. BST on Sunday, 30 April to 23:59 BST on Sa...
-
One day the planet tilted just ever so slightly to the left and everyone and everything I’d ever known in between fell off. It wasn’t easy t...
-
A shaft of sunlight fell across the worn herringbone floor, drawing his gaze upwards to the flawless blue sky beyond the row of windows, ...
-
A girl sits, waiting. She reaches above her head for a girl. A girl to pluck from the tree of girls. The tree is full and ripe, the perfect ...
No comments:
Post a Comment