Prompt 1: The sun
If only.
She could put on the good shoes, the ones that brought a smile to her face. Forget about the useless man, forget about the scratch on her car, the weeds in her garden, the bills piling up in the letter-rack in the hall.
Red and shiny the shoes brought the sun to dark winter days, poking out beneath the hems of her black office trousers making interminable meetings seem shorter and bearable.
Why had she made the rule? Not to rely on the shoes but to wait for the sun when all it did was rain, rain, rain ...
She could put on the good shoes, the ones that brought a smile to her face. Forget about the useless man, forget about the scratch on her car, the weeds in her garden, the bills piling up in the letter-rack in the hall.
Red and shiny the shoes brought the sun to dark winter days, poking out beneath the hems of her black office trousers making interminable meetings seem shorter and bearable.
Why had she made the rule? Not to rely on the shoes but to wait for the sun when all it did was rain, rain, rain ...