Thank you to Rochelle, who gives us this gift of Friday Fictioneers.
Step In Your High Stepping Style
I tripped on an upgrade in pavement, yanked a tendon which meant when I tried to stand, I slapped hard again, my face smashed, bloodied, caking against my lips and nose.
You never answered my call in the ER. I arrived home by taxi.
The tree resembles you. Leafless and wrinkled.
I try to stand every day, invoke muscle strength. I try to forget the fear of falling. I try to look at you and not remember hostility.
Somewhere I hear my Daddy singing the phrase from my favorite storybook: giddyup, giddyup little pony. Step in your high stepping style.
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Sascha Darlington 10/22/2017
such strength exuded…. leaves me contemplating….
🙂
Thanks for reading! 🙂
I like it that the tree is not sentimentalised in this piece. Indeed nothing is. I like that too
Thanks, Neil. Sometimes I like putting lines out as “facts” to see if it achieves anything. 🙂
Dear Sascha,
I felt her pain. I once fell running up stairs and tore my calf muscles. On the pain scale that was a 10.5. Add her emotional pain….well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you, Rochelle. 🙂
Tearing a calf muscle sounds like agony to me.
Such relationships make me sad, where you can only move ahead when you forgive and where each day is a challenge.
I like how she digs out motivation to fight and survive.
Thank you, Moon. I always find it challenging to try to represent such a relationship.
I shall try to look at you and not remember the hostility – I struggle with that too. Not that i find it difficult to forgive and move on but that whether it is right I should do so. Wouldnt forgiveness and acceptance be taken as a license to continue? Isnt it true that there comes a time when forbearance ceases to be a virtue? But what is to decide the time? Ah well, sorry to go on and on but it’s all because of your thought provoking piece! 😉
Lots of questions you ask and I bet lots of people in relationships ask themselves those question every day. What makes it worth it to continue? And when are you better off just leaving? Does a person really need to be in a relationship with another person to be happy? 🙂
True! So mamy questìns but no answer…
Interesting take, and so very sad that she perseveres with this relationship.
Thanks, Sandra. Your comment has me wanting to write the other side of the story, because we know there are two. 🙂
Her inability to forgive, will eat away at her. Her lack of sentimentality will eat away at her. Her future looks bleak.This character’s viewpoint creates an interesting story. Well told.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments, Kelvin. I read them and immediately thought about writing the other side of the story.
People do get mired because of one event which magnifies and can change the entire relationship.