You’re at a burial, dressed in shoes you didn’t have time to polish or lace up correctly. It’s a grey sort of day, overcast with rain coming soon. They’re lowering the casket into the ground and all you can do is stare at the stubborn knot in your shoelaces.
Someone lights up a cigarette after the service is over and you move away to avoid the smoke. Your heels slip into the soft ground and you get mud on the hemline of your clothes. You stop to catch your breath after a long day and close your eyes. You smell rain in the air.
There’s a piano you can hear in the nearby chapel playing a soft tune. You think they’re playing “Amazing Grace” and then it changes. A sudden thought strikes you: “I must get back into the car before the last note. Once the last note plays, it’ll start raining.”
You’re heading back to the car when you see a man standing at the fence. He’s dressed in overhauls and a flannel shirt, looking directly at you. You glance away but are drawn back by the man’s intense stare. He’s holding something in his hand. A letter? A book? You can’t tell. You feel you must find out, before the last piano note…
Take it from here. You don’t need to be Hemingway or Dickinson to participate. Just write. The few rules are below.
- Keep it PG. Pretend your great Aunt Gertrude would read it and disinherit you if she smelled even the faintest whiff of impropriety.
- No word limit. Just please don’t try to out write the greats.
- You can do descriptives, a story, whatever your imagination comes up with.
- Repost on your blog to increase the fun (optional). I do like to be pinged back so I can read and comment on your works.
- Ask a question in your writing. Could be in dialogue or in your character’s thoughts
You have until Friday, April 12th (11:59 pm, US EST) to make your post. Author reserves the right to approve and disapprove comments at her own discretion.
Have fun writing and exploring your imagination. After all, it’s only by writing that we become better writers.🎹
Peregrine Arc 
Hi: I came to this prompt via Chelsea Owens blog when she responded to this. I found it an intriguing introduction so gave it a try. I’m not sure how you handle this. Do you just let bloggers do their own thing or do you want to be notified if someone takes you up on the prompt. Anyhow the following is my attempt https://lensdiary.blog/2019/04/09/regret/
Thanks for your imaginative and well written prompt. regards Len
I like to be linked back, by comment and/or by a ping, so I can read the responses. I really look forward to it. I appreciate you participating and will read your response soon. Thanks.