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His dark color haunted him every time he approached her. At long last he fluttered around to seek validation from others, but in vain.Today’s reunion yet again mockingly reflected in their eyes, the fiery orange that she was draped in, contrasting beautifully with her milky white complexion. If only…
This post is a part of the The Fiction Challenge ‘From 15 to 50’ hosted on The Moving Quill.
Word prompt: ‘Reunion’
Phrase prompt: ‘At long last’
Picture Prompt as seen above.
Dear Vinodini,
What a beautifully crafted piece. I could sense the way he shrank from her. Perhaps her beauty inspired that shyness? Or was it something more? Intriguing. I sense a longer piece's potential in here 🙂
Thanks for linking this up.
Shailaja
Thank you Shailaja. It was a pleasure writing for your prompts. You caught me there! I actually ended up writing close to 100 words and would have gone further to write 1000 words more, but I had to do justice to the challenge as well, so had to scrape off quite a bit.
Guess a sequel would make sense. Yes, there's more to it than his shyness. Hope to elaborate on that in the sequel 🙂
I see an image of butterflies… 😉 <3 I would love to hear more too…I love your stories! 🙂 <3
Elly, that was a picture provided by Shailaja along with the word and phrase prompt.
Thanks for keeping me motivated all the time! Yeah, you'll read more on this soon. My fingers are already itching to write 🙂
Intriguing piece of writing. So many questions unanswered, so much to imagine. I agree with Shailaja, you must expand on this and give us more 🙂
Thanks Beloo. I was expecting to read answers to some of those questions in the comments hoping my readers would share their perspective. Hence had left it loose ended 😉
But well, now that you all have pointed it out, I hope to come out with more on this soon 🙂
Good one, Vinodini.
Reality for many. If only…Skin-color didn't come in the way…
Thank you Anita. Yeah, more than just the skin-color, it is the way a person percieves himself, is how things move ahead for him.
Great Post 🙂 Happy to connect with your blog page 🙂
http://www.anubhav-tyagi.blogspot.in
Thanks Anubhav. Welcome to my blog 🙂
Brilliant and powerful. Something we need to reflect on, Vinodini:)
Thanks Vishal 🙂
This was lovely. Exquisite description and word choices and you did it all in the short word count. I'm impressed.
Hey, thanks Cathy. I'm glad you liked it.
When self-worth is trapped in skin-colour, one cannot really fly high..nice take on the prompt, Vinodini!
Thanks Uma. You're right, one cannot reach anywhere with such shallow self-worth based on external appearances.
That was lovely!!
Thanks Vinitha. Welcome to my blog 🙂
Very interesting take on the prompt 🙂
Beautiful Words Vinodini 🙂 Well written.