Five Sentence Fiction and Lillie McFerrin go well together. Her word prompt for this week: waiting. Mine is below the pic from her site. Click > Here < for the rest of the stories. Enjoy!!!
Source: http://ludmilascorner.blogspot.com/2012/03/change.html Click pic for page
Waiting
“Abandoned”
Scott L Vannatter – 8/22/14
Mariella sat, umbrella opened in hand, on a common black trunk, all three getting soaked from the downpour on the railroad loading platform.
As wet as she was, her cheeks were getting wetter as her hot, salty tears poured down, mixing with the freshwater rain and dissolving into oblivion.
The trainmaster left his post to walk out in the drenching liquid, march over to her, and tap the poor, sad woman on the shoulder.
“Miss, there are no more arrivals today since the big quake in ‘Frisco and all.”
She quietly nodded, turning back and looking again toward the city which held her hopes and her fiancé.
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Namaste,
Scott L Vannatter
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Oh no. I feel for this woman and I just met her. Maybe you’ll tell more of her story?
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Perhaps, I should do a several post story?! What do you think?
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Oh dear, poor Mariella… Will he live?
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Yep, assuming he is alive!
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want to know more
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Ah, you mean like how she doesn’t know if he is alive or not and now can only sit and worry about him?
Or do you mean that she will, undoubtedly, trek into the city at first opportunity in order to find him?
Or that she may die from pneumonia before even getting up from the suitcase?
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