Decision Point: Fiction Friday

Posted on September 11, 2015 by treshabarger

Friday Fictioneer challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
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Photo copyright Jennifer Pendergast

Decision Point

MaryLou sat in the canoe doing the Zen thing and visualizing herself out on the lake: calm, strong, and sure of her destination. Back in the cabin, her friends were sleeping off the previous night’s alcoholic indulgences. She wondered why they had come if they had no intentions of ever going outdoors.

She looked at the stone trail marker. It wasn’t telling her which way to go, only that she had a choice. A decision point. How many had she disregarded in her life?

Easing herself into the bottom of the canoe, MaryLou stretched out, deciding to take a nap.
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Blue!

Posted on September 10, 2015 by treshabarger

The hands that cut fabric for me at my local quilt fabric shop.

Blue!

Acorns

Posted on September 9, 2015 by treshabarger

Our poor, little trees. We’ve been in a drought for many years and their growth has been sporadic at best. We did have a wet spring and that was a good start to the year. Our Pin Oak tree in the back managed to keep a few acorns through the dry, hot summer. The break in the heat should come soon. We hope. (Don’t know about the break in the drought.) In the meantime, here is an acorn that made it through. You can see the leaves starting to turn way before autumn has arrived.