“For all the Gods!”
“What is it?” I startled. This was the closest I’d heard Papa get to swearing.
He lifted the milking-pail to reveal a wet stain on the earthen floor. A defiant fat drop fell, confirming.
It was our only pail.
I emptied the soup-pot into our bowls. “I’ll scrub this, Papa. It’ll cool and do till the morrow, when I’ll take the pail to the tinker. He’ll repair it for my comb.”
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Tinker in 75 words
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I love this, Na’ama!!
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Thank you, Dale! 🙂
(and I find myself hoping the repair would really be done for a comb … )
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Seriously…
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Totally …
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Trying to find a photo to go with mine, as we speak
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Will be waiting to read it!!! 🙂 Something specific? I’ll be glad to help …
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I go through my own pics, dahlink…
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Ah, den you do dat!
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I will and I will!
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I’m sure the comb will cover it, but I hope the tinker is not bald.
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LOL. Well, if he is bald, I hope he tinkers only with the likes of pails, not the maidens carrying them.
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Hmmm.
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Exactly …
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What a great little piece of flash fiction! So inventive!
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Glad you enjoyed it, Matthew!
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If you’re so inclined, feel free to browse around the other posts (click my name at the top of the blog to open the homepage with the ‘roll’ of recent posts or dig around the archives as you wish). 🙂
Wasn’t that a fantastic prompt word Sammi gave us? 🙂
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It really was!
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The vital role of the tinker, forgotten in our throwaway world.
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Forgotten by some. Remembered by others ….
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And I think you may have inspired me.
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🙂 Yay! 🙂
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Na’ama Y’kara,
What a beautiful act of selfless love of a daughter for her father. So much story in so few words.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Mine’s here: https://rochellewisoff.com/2019/08/17/weekend-writing-prompt-tinker/
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Thank you, Rochelle!
The father seems a gentle one, as well, if his mild exclamation stands out to her … So glad more layers of the story were communicated than the word count allowed! 🙂
Off to read yours!
Na’ama
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So simple, yet so telling about difficulties of the past! Loved it!
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Thank you!
Some problems used to be so simple and yet so potentially devastating. And in some places in the world that is still true.
Glad you liked it!
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This is such a sweet tale. Dear girl giving up her only comb for the family pail.
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🙂 Glad you liked it!
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So very touching.
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