Attic (5-Minute Freewrite #4: Image Prompt)
Attic
Bleak attic. The rain hammers against the glass windows. It was chilly, but his panic got him steamy. His footsteps echoed as he searched for the one thing he might have lost. His love. Okay, it was not his love that he was searching for in a dusty box - but a token of it. A wedding ring. He thought his husband abandoned him years ago without saying a word. The truth was now revealed.
His husband never had a chance to say goodbye. He was taken. Or murdered. The details are not sure whether he is still alive. It all lies within the ring. A furry nose may follow the scent that once held that ring. He hopes to find his long-lost love. How does one start to love again the person he hated after all that caused pain. He tried. Among all the buried memories, he searched for that one ring.
Under postcards, signed photos, cobwebs. There were so many hidden objects packed and stored years ago. They were all forgotten. Like the memories of when they started dating, and that romantic phase before getting married. It was all gone. It wasn't, but it needed a good clean-up to be revived. A good wash, a polish. There is still a chance for that phase to be rekindled, for the frames to beam in the sunlight. There is still hope - if he finds that wedding ring that he tossed away. Was it still running somewhere?
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Wow, you got that from this picture??? Amazingly done, I am clapping, literally and for real clapping.
blinks. Do I really deserve all this clapping? I thought this was a shoddy write haha.
Great!! GREAT!!! story and Freewrite!!
fun to read!! Thank You!
blushes. Thank you! The freewrite community is too nice!
This was a great take off for the picture! Sometimes finding that missing ring can lead us back.
It's cool how I jump from one thought to another, thinking that the story is incoherent. I'm hoping to find my missing ring soon :P
I'm sure you will find the missing ring! It's in there, somewhere. <3
Yup, some ring just needed cleaning for its shine to come back. That's one good 5-minute story. :)
Good job on pulling me in. Thanks.
I'm hopping from Freewriter to Freewriter dropping the prompt for the day!
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It is so interesting how we see the same things so differently. Attic did not come to mind when I look at the picture.
and so many layers in this story!! thank you so much for writing with us!!
Thank you! Indeed, I have seen some think of a basement (duh, why didn't I think of that?) and someone wrote where the protagonist was at a school in the late evening. I could never see a school in that picture! Our writer brains can get so creative.
That is what I love so much about the freewrites. Just shows that we all look at the same thing and see completely different things.
A good lesson to take into real life.