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ashes of the one who d gone before he cocked his head slightly as though studying her or maybe trying to retrieve a memory and then with no further acknowledgement took flight straight up just as his predecessor had done until he surpassed the light of the fire and she could see him no more feena kept her vigil on the fire the rest of the night unsure exactly what to do next when the first light of dawn broke behind her she felt more than heard a gentle chuffing sound behind her turning she found in full splendour this era s phoenix monday august 15 2022 friday flash 77 tonight posted by lauren cude horsfall at 6 08 pm labels fridayflash slice of life 0 comments do you ever feel like there s a story there but it s just out of reach that s what i had last night and this is what we got instead for the first one this year ah well enjoy tonight tonight is a night where morning is a reality that can be ignored tonight is a night for walking alone in the woods tonight is a night for watching moonlight shatter on a ripple on an otherwise still lake tonight is a night to listen to the sounds we can only hear when we stop tonight is a night to stare into a fire that cackles and throws shadows that dance tonight is a night for storytellers dreamers songwriters and artists tonight is a night those without imagination sleep soundly while those with are wide awake w wonder tonight is a night that if you pay attention you just might glimpse magic rarely seen past childhood tonight is a night for memories of what was and dreams of what may be tonight is a night for questions without answers tonight is a night for mystery tonight is a night for calm but also for magic and chaos tonight is a first for some and a last for others and on this night of all nights will you experience it or will you be sound asleep monday august 30 2021 one word passing posted by lauren cude horsfall at 9 53 pm labels oneword 0 comments it was just a passing fancy or so they said i d get over it move on with life and they weren t wrong except that somehow somehow the fancy never really passed and as i sit here age 92 i m finally ready to experience it for real and there s nobody left to stop me fridayflash 76 why crayons burn posted by lauren cude horsfall at 9 12 pm labels fridayflash magical realism 0 comments asking the important questions here mostly cause i really should be asleep right now tomorrow is going to be a very long day they say that in an emergency a crayon will burn for hours but how long will they burn when it s not an emergency a joke an internet meme but every joke has a sliver of truth to it why do you think it is that the best artwork stems from extremes of passion either super calm quiet and relaxed or a mad frenzy barely contained with few exceptions the masterpieces of the world were created in one of those mindsets or the other why is it artists are passionate or so the working theory goes but is that really it or is it actually that their tools are passionate the paints the pastels the pencils they feed off the emotions of their handlers and so it s logical really that handlers with emotions to spare get better work out of them and as for those crayons small children sometimes have the biggest emotions too big even to be expressed as masterpiece art big enough perhaps to light a room in the darkness especially when fueled by the emotions surrounding emergency so to answer the question how long will they burn when it s not an emergency that depends solely on the mental state of the one asking for fire may the odds be ever in your favour sunday november 1 2020 fridayflash 75 the letter posted by lauren cude horsfall at 6 33 pm labels fridayflash magical realism 0 comments so have you read it yet janine looked down flipping the opened envelope slowly in her hands she shook her head why not she looked up and met my eyes briefly before flicking away i don t know she said her voice hardly more than a whisper what if what if there s something horrible there could be i acknowledged but what if there s something amazing she started at the letter the letter we all get on our 18th birthdays i d get mine next week the letter from our future selves written on paper for some of us the only actual paper we d ever own every adult got one opportunity just one to write a letter to their 18 year old self for some it was an opportunity to change their lives to undo past mistakes for others it was a reassurance that things would turn out okay or share lessons they wished they d learned earlier in life and there were some who never got the chance they either didn t have a letter in waiting when they died or they d actively chosen not to send one their younger selves would receive the same envelope but inside it would simply read your future is unwritten i was curious both what i d read and what i d someday write theoretically those two were the same but everyone knew someone who knew someone who said the letter they wrote differed wildly from the one they d received urban legend or actual fact did it happen or did we just need to believe it could happen i knew i would read mine as soon as it arrived but there were some who didn t want to know it was easier always easier not to know how things would end and janine was one who wasn t sure if she d risk knowing something she d rather not do you want me to read it it was taboo to ask someone to read your letter to put the weight on them of knowing what you might not want to know but i could volunteer the envelope shook slightly as she handed it to me i pulled out the letter it was yellowed the author had lived many years and likely refolded it many times and short she hadn t had much to say the paper threatened to tear as i unfolded it i read quickly and then exhaled the breath i hadn t realized i d been holding it s okay i handed the envelope back with a smile nothing to worry about janie s shoulders dropped and her eyes softened as she took the paper back i ll read it at home she said as she folded it up to fit in her purse she got up and left without so much as a goodbye walking quickly in the direction of her home the following week was both the fastest and the shortest i could ever recall and then it was my turn to stand there janine at my side with my envelope despite what i d always claimed i still hesitated i shook my head to clear my thoughts then tore the top of the envelop pulling out what was inside one sheet only one it wasn t new at least but it wasn t wildly aged either the paper was folded in three but not many times over it looked like it was one of the rare ones that had been written once folded and sent i glanced up at janine suddenly glad she was there she nodded once slowly i flipped it over and read my brow crinkled as i looked up at janine what does it say she asked head tilted slightly i handed her the paper she read just as quickly and looked up at me i don t get it i know i looked over at the paper she still held the most important thing my future self could think of to tell me never visit the louvre at christmas the hopewell rocks under a full moon hadrian s wall at hallowe en urulu in the rain kilimanjaro in the sun today on my 18th birthday i d never been more than two hours from my home town travel seemed a lot of work and effort for no real benefit i d seen all those places in vr there was no need to go in person there was no reason to imagine i would ever even consider going to one of those places much less all of them so why such a note why warn me against such places i pulled out my phone and did some quick searching the louvre wasn t even open at christmas and urulu ayer s rock was in a desert so the odds of me ever being there and getting rained on were pretty slim hadrian s wall was a crumbling relic there s zero reason i d ever be there and hallowe en was a child s holiday what did that matter i shrugged at janine as i folded the paper and stuck it in my pocket well if that s the only advice my future self can give i guess things will be okay i mean it s not like any of that would ever happen but janine hesitated but what well you must ve had a reason for writing that which means somehow you must ve ended up there at some point so maybe just just what just keep it in mind someday if it seems you might be in one of those places just remember there must ve been a reason yeah okay i tried to put it out of my mind why would i have ever written such a thing what would possibly happen if one of those circumstances was to occur i was taking a gap year next year my parents were pushing me to travel but i d been planning to work on my music but maybe maybe i should go to some of those places at times that were not aligned with the list just to see what the big deal was scotland i could go there first in september and be long gone by hallowe en surely there d be no risk to that and once i d seen it there d never be any reason to go back crisis adverted and as i booked the tickets i wondered briefly if future me had any idea the impact that letter might have right well it turns out my future self knew 18 year old me better than i ever imagined for what was the number one way to make me do something tell me not to under any circumstances do it that letter got me out of my town showed me the world and opened my mind to imagination and wonder i would never know if future me originally wrote that letter as a reflection of the most important parts of my life or merely in hopes of making important things happen but as i sat down to write the letter that would change my life i m forever grateful i did based off the following writing prompt monday april 6 2020 fridayflash 74 a moonlit stroll posted by lauren cude horsfall at 10 56 pm labels fridayflash magical realism 0 comments she didn t know why she awoke so suddenly and completely she d only been asleep a couple hours but she knew she was up for a while now stumbling in the dark she grabbed some clothes and left the room so as not to wake her partner the old house was quiet not even the furnace was running so every creak of the floor was magnified the highway almost never heard in the distance sounded as though it were right next door she dressed quickly and her curious dog always up for an adventure sleepily came to investigate want to go for a walk she whispered instantly animating the dog who started spinning in circles she smiled and ushered her out the door before the excited scrambling would wake her sleeping partner it was eerily light outside the harvest moon far brighter than the widely spaced streetlights it was a safe neighbourhood she wasn t overly concerned about being out alone even so late she and the dog made their way along their habitual route as one does the dog eagerly leading the way something seemed not quite right it took her a moment to figure out that all the noise had stopped that which had been so loud in her house was silent outdoors she couldn t hear her footsteps as they scrunched the gravel nor her dog panting with excitement she shook her head once to clear her ears but it did nothing up ahead she saw a woman walking toward her odd given it was the middle of the night and she never even saw people on this road during the day the moonlight framed the woman in such a way she appeared to glow she felt a shiver go down her spin and shortened the dog s leash pulling her closer hello she said as she passed the woman the woman tilted her head and looked at her as though studying her before continuing on her way without saying anything weird she thought and turned toward home suddenly far less interested in being out alone at night but when she turned the corner it wasn t the houses she walked past every day in front of her instead of her nice suburban neighbourhood all she could see were farms sound returned but instead of the mildly aggravating growl of the highway she heard the quiet occasional scurry of a small nocturnal critter she spun around but the corner she had just turned was gone her dog was sniffing eagerly pulling on the leash clearly enjoying this new landscape but she felt her heartrate accelerate as panic quickly set in what the this made no sense it wasn t possible and yet it had happened she continued walking toward where her home should be having no idea what she d find she felt a huge relief when she got to her street to see her house was still there it was the only one around but it was there it was however not quite right there were no cars in the driveway for one thing even if for some odd reason her partner had gone out her car should still be there and the for sale sign that waved wistfully in the darkness when she d left was missing she was not terribly surprised when she tried the door to find it locked but she had noticed that not far from where her garage used to be there was now a barn so she led the dog that way figuring they could stay there for the night and figure out what was going on in daylight when did you get here she was awoken by a pre adolescent boy wearing clothes she d only ever seen in the movies mom we ve got another one he shouted another one what she asked hearing the mother s faint reply from the house he just shook his head mom will tell you and went deeper into the barn oh dear you must ve had a rough night when are you from uh what the boy s mother stood before her a heavyset woman with an easy smile who smelled slightly of fresh bread what year is it the woman asked as though that were the most natural question upon finding someone sleeping in her barn uh 2020 hating that it came out as a question but suddenly doubting the truth she knew and this is your house she asked well yes although we don t have a barn okay well it s 1852 now child why don t you come have breakfast and we ll talk she followed flabbergasted into the house she knew so well and yet not at all everything seemed to suit what little she knew of the time period the woman gestured to sit down and put a plate of biscuits in front of her you crossed the ley lines under the harvest moon and greeted the traveler she said as though that made perfect sense uh i took my dog for a walk in the moonlight that s okay child it happens more often than you d think fortunately we know how to send you home the relief she felt was instant and overwhelming but followed almost immediately by intense curiosity wait you mean this has happened before oh yes at least a couple times a year we get visitors the first few were a shock a couple of them stayed and it took a while to figure out how to send the others home all of them live in this house in their time and all of them walked under the harvest moon and met a woman who said nothing to them you re here for a week but on our next moon we can send you home are you sure i mean if people leave how do you know they get home we don t for sure but we had one visitor that wasn t surprised to be here which makes us think it works there s a 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