Seeing Sue’s picture made me think of our good luck that the Big Bang (AKA theory of singularity) gave us this beautiful world as well as the space and time we live in.
Here’s hoping we do a better job of stewardship in the coming year.
Christmas memories (of Christmas trees, homemade ornaments, Sunday nights with The Wonderful World of Disney, and our annual viewing of The Wizard of Oz) inspired by Linda’s SoCS challenge to use TIN as our prompt.
I didn’t plan a Part II but when the muse strikes …. You can find the original Cassie & Nessie here.
And now the story continues …
Not for the first time, Liam stared at Cassie and wondered if being in a coma was like dreaming.
Months had passed since they found her floating face-down in the Loch. And still no indication that she was ever going to surface again. Sad? Yes. But, really, probably for the best.
She had spent the past twenty years researching. Believing. And then the story broke.
Photo Credit: C.E. Ayr
She had been so angry.
Screaming at him. Accusing him of betraying her for money. Screeching really. It had NOT been attractive. Ugly really.
Earsplitting shrieking. “Nellie’s not a commodity. She’s not for sale!” So obsessed with that damn fish. So worried that the publicity would endanger Nessie.
And now. This.
It would break her heart.
Plus he couldn’t be sure she hadn’t seen him at the Loch that day.
She looked so lovely now. It really would be best if she never surfaced.
Thanks to Crimson’s Creative Challenge for providing the photo by Crispina Kemp. I’m not sure what the photo actually depicts but to me it was poor Nessie’s bones. (And it comes in at a tight 147 words.)
Tina Stewart Brakebill 