Thursday photo prompt: Colorful Wishes #writephoto
Charlene was delighted with her tree. Everywhere else, when someone had a statement to make, it was always stupid toilet paper. All over the tree and then it would drizzle or rain and for weeks, the tree looked like it had some kind of hideous fungus on it.
She had done a much better job. Bright, colorful. It was a cheerful, happy tree and what started with anger, ended in art. She barely remembered why she started “fixing” the tree. She thought something had made her angry and she wanted to show the world, but before she was even a quarter of the way through it, the project had morphed into Art.
Brianna was going to be really surprised when she stepped out of the house that morning. Not a single sheet of toilet paper. Just bright colors swinging gaily from the little tree by the gate.
Charlene giggled all the way home. Surprise!
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I like this and the message. I hope you join Sue’s prompts more often!
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I will try. These couple of months are difficult for us. There just a lot that needs to be done. But I will try harder.
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Yeah, I know. Perhaps in the autumn when (hopefully when and not if!) things calm down you can join more often.
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I sure hope so. I knew this would be a busy time, but I didn’t realize HOW busy!
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Beautiful story!
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Ha ha ha. That was fun.
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You should do more flash/short fiction. You’re very good at it.
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I used to be. The problem is that my heart’s not in it. I can write short fiction. The shorter the better because I’m really BAD at long fiction. But. Reality grabbed me by the cerebral cortex and won’t let go. I feel like the world is too much in my face, personally, politically, culturally. I notice that a lot of writers have at least temporarily abandoned novel-writing and are putting out all their work to try and get people to vote blue.
I’m not taking the changes in our world particularly well.
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“I’m not taking the changes in our world particularly well.” Nor am I, Marilyn. But I find that composing short flash fiction posts serves as a way to escape the harsh realities of the world by forcing me to focus on a word or an image and to craft a story around it. It serves a distraction, albeit a brief one, from living in Trumpistan.
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Like that! Can’t tell what they are, socks?
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I can’t tell either. I couldn’t make the picture enlarge, so I just guessed.
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hehe we guessed together, probably rightly so too.
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Probably, that was good enough 🙂
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Absolutely! We’re a pair! I think. hehe
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Art instead of anger? That works for me 🙂
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Speaking to tee shirts “More art, less anger.” It works for ME.
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Yep. I’d wear that 🙂
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It might even encourage a few people to consider the possibilities, that perhaps art is a better outlet than rage. It couldn’t hurt.
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Art is a darned good outlet for rage… and the canvas a place where rage cannot hurt.
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Sometimes, it genuinely HELPS. Rage as art has changed the world.
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It has… and that is th eonly good use for anger.
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Probably also the least destructive. Anger can generate a lot of energy to create. I think I’ve done my best work when I was dealing with anger or grief or some powerful emotion.
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Yes, I’d agree with that. It needs some passion to fuel the creativity.
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I have the passion. What I lack these days are time and energy. I’m hoping by the fall, I’ll be a more sorted out. Both of us should be sorted out by the end of November.
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Keeping my fingers crossed for the next bit for you both xx
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what a great idea – when angry wrap up a tree (but not with toilet paper!). Lovely
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Anything but TP. That really DOES look like drying fungus.
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I can think of a reason why I’d be unhappy not to have any toilet paper in the home.
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I would hope no one would be so foolish as to denude ones home of such an essential product!
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Sweet story 🙂
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Thank you. Beat out the old TP in the tree version 🙂
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positively cute 🙂
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I usually don’t have anything to say, but I had a literal flash of fiction this time. Silly, but fun.
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Silly, funny and cute. Good on ANY day.
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