Marina, wrapped in a pink blanket, quietly standing on the porch.
In his mind, he saw her there still: all he wanted. His woman, a child, a house, a life.
“Gone!” he shouted.
Barnet’s ‘Woman and the Sea’
This is an entry for this weekend’s Trifecta Writing Challenge. The Trifectans provided snapshots of page 33 of the book Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, and challenged us to write a piece using any 33 words from the page.
Olive Kitteridge (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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This is really good!
Thank you
Lovely! Great use of the prompt!
Thank you, Suzanne.
I scanned that page so many times to find words that I probably have it memorized! It was a fun exercise, though.
I loved that you named her Marina! I used to know a Marina from Germany. But I did not think woman’s name, I thought only of a place. well done!
Thank you!
My first version began “Marina leaves the kitchen, old, slow, squawking, “Hackamatack!” But then I couldn’t find any more words to fit
Wow this is great, one of my favourites that I’ve read so far
Thank you. That’s so kind of you to say!
Wonderful-love the idea of it all:-)
Thank you
Oh I like this! Clever, using marina as a name.
Hey, thanks! I wanted to use “leaves” and “needles” as verbs, too, but couldn’t make it work. Thanks for reading
Sad. great piece ..
Thank you. The prompt sure elicited a lot of dark pieces, didn’t it?!
Oh yes. It did..quite a few of them!
Terrific story. Excellent find!
Thanks!
I like it, but I haven’t read the book, so my judgment is probably flawed, huh? I don’t read enough (fiction) to take part in things like this…I do write, though, which is blasphemous to some…
Kylie, I’m currently writing a short story, would you be my experimental reader when I’m done?
I would love to!
Awesome!
You’re awesome, we’re awesome…