A Meek Offering-

[aliquisa]

since I've neglected you for so long.

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Kenmore

She felt her stomach tighten, her belly feeling hollow as a big drum, hungry for something real, something green and raw and light and spiced; she wanted tahini hummus and celery, peanut butter, romaine, feta, yogurt, God, any of it, in any order, just soon.  She perched on the bench.  It was dirty.

Comments

[anonymous]

More!

The lurker is hungry

[aliquisa]

Aww, I was missed!

[polemically]

Of course you were missed!

I really liked this. It was pretty in its own way and the rhythm of the words, especially when you described the platform.

It was an in-class assignment.

[aliquisa]

We were told we had about ten minutes to write a scene in any setting we wanted. The only catch was, one of the two people had to be falling in love with the other, and we weren't allowed to use any words like 'love' or 'emotion' or 'feelings.'

We all glared at the teacher and in his charming cheerleader way, he smiled back and said, "You can do it, I know you can!"

[fsl]

Loved it. Beautiful writing. And, yes, you were missed. :-)