LJ Idol Week 1 - Black Rainbow

[messygorgeous]

Gramma sat beside me on our screened porch, fanning, humming, working on her Celebrity Search-A-Word with a blue Bic and exclaiming when she found Fonda or Newman tucked among the gibberish letters.

It was July in Georgia and that meant hot, hot, hot all day and hot, hot, hot at night - just with mosquitos.  Gramma's sun-warmed skin was sweat-

Comments

[d0gs]

I love how you described the lovely relationships here and ugh yesss the prisms and migraines are the worst - i feel your pain!😭

[messygorgeous]

Thank you for reading! My gramma was my first real love, and migraines…terrible. The idea for this came to me in my car, when early morning light hit my eye just right and I thought “Gotta get the sunglasses or I’ll get a migraine!”

[bleodswean]

Ugh. This made MY head hurt. You really conveyed an aural migraine.

[messygorgeous]

Thank you. I’ve never tried writing about migraines before. They are so bad that I have an unreasonable fear that if I just think about them very long I’m going to cause one to appear like some bogeyman in a nightmare.

[bleodswean]

I know exactly what you mean! Childbirth and nursing put a stop to my migraines, thank the goddess! But I do get vertigo and that is definitely a condition that can be brought on by MERELY THINKING ABOUT DIZZINESS. Eeep!

[mollywheezy]

Migraines are awful! I loved your description of the relationship with your grandmother.

[messygorgeous]

They ARE terrible. My grandmother was so good to me- thank you for reading!

[drippedonpaper]

Man! I don't suffer from migraines but my grandma, my dad, and 3 of my siblings do. They sound just so awful.

I love how descriptive your writing is. You did well giving us a child's perspective. I love how she described her grandma.

[messygorgeous]

I’m so glad you got skipped in that genetic bingo game! I still get migraines but not as often as I used to. I was trying to remember what that was like when the pain left me so confused and wiped out when I was a kid. Thank you for reading!

[numero_nine]

Your imagery and descriptions, not just of the migraine but your relationship with your grandmother are powerful and vivid. I've never had a migraine and you've ensured I never want one! Well done.

[messygorgeous]

Thank you! My grandmother was definitely one of the most important people in my early life, and the migraines are part of my origin story, lol!

I am glad you don’t get them - I wouldn’t wish them on anybody!

[numero_nine]

Your origin story. I love it. 😂