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Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

Pure Haiku Featured Writer (2-4)

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Please don’t let my tardiness be mistaken for diminished gratitude! It’s just been a chaotic week.

Thank you so much to Freya for the opportunity and Elisa Ang for choosing me as Unfurling’s Featured Writer. I’m still gobsmacked by your choice!

Also thanks to #WritePhoto for a perfect photo inspiration to illustrate my gratitude and to Alethea for the photo. In thanks, I’ll unfurl another haiku. LOL I’m sure you see what I did there 😉

a moment of joy

written across the blue sky

the rainbow unfurls

Also, please visit Pure Haiku at the links below for my Unfurling contributions two through four:

https://purehaiku.wordpress.com/2021/07/24/7-24-featured-haiku-writer/

https://purehaiku.wordpress.com/2021/07/26/7-26-featured-haiku-writer/

https://purehaiku.wordpress.com/2021/07/28/7-28-featured-haiku-writer/

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Flash Fiction, tutto e niente

For the Best

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Molly watched and wondered.

Mama always told her it was for the best. They weren’t really captives. It was for protection. They’d hurt themselves or others if they were free.

But still, Molly wondered. Were they happy? Sad? Were they envious? Did they know they weren’t free? Or was mama right and they didn’t even understand those ideas?

One of the little ones followed Molly with its eyes and just for a moment Molly felt a connection. Maybe it did understand. She squirmed a bit at that thought. Maybe mama was right and this was the best thing for them. But still. That look.

Maybe she’d get closer. Try again.

But just then, she heard her mama’s call sing out and she shook off her doubt. Mama would never lie to her.

“Mama must be right. It’s all for the best.”

Already thinking about feeding time, she turned tail and swam away.

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Thanks to Fandango’s Flash Fiction Challenge.