FSF Challenge - Grief






Lillie McFerrin Writes

This week's writing challenge from


Five Sentence Fiction


( Lillie McFerrin Writes ) is based upon the prompt:




Grief




What it’s all about: Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week Lillie posts one word for inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word.






Just keep walking...









Tears of Stone






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    "It's sad enough to bury a child, but if we're going to have a decent funeral I must insist on the family plot being properly maintained. I should think you would have the statuary cleaned as that horrid figure of a weeping woman on his wife's grave is simply covered with mildew. The child's father is the only survivor and I don't wish to make this any more depressing than it already is."

    "I'm sorry, Madam, but I don't understand. We have no statuary like that in our cemetery."






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Comments

  1. CifarSeptember 18, 2014 at 9:13 AM

    nice post

    My Entry Courage

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  2. Miranda KateSeptember 18, 2014 at 4:17 PM

    Very moving. Good piece.

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    1. K R SmithSeptember 19, 2014 at 11:48 AM

      Thanks! Yours was a good piece, too,
      ( http://purplequeennl.blogspot.com/2014/09/five-sentence-fiction-grief.html )
      That could easily be the start of - or at least part of - a much longer story.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2014 at 7:46 AM

    Ooh... *shivers* Very good!

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