It was going to be better once she got there. Not like last time.
She held her purse on her lap with both hands, knees together, spine away from the cushion and her body swaying lightly with the movement of the vehicle, as she watched the world roll ahead of the front window, indistinct in the liquid grayish light.
It’s been raining for hours. A persistent misty drizzle that had dampened so many of her earlier years. She shuddered even though the bus was overheated. Perhaps because she sat in her coat.
The driver leaned on the horn and she released one hand to steady herself against a possible braking. Her seat in the center of the last row had no armrest, but it was the only one with a clear path out.
She always needed to have an unobstructed way out.
And yet, there she was, going back.
For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
So much not said and boy can we feel so much. How do you do that?
Wonderful writer, you are.
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Wow, thank you my friend! Best kind of feedback for moi! 🙂 So glad stuff got communicated! 🙂 xoxo
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And… did you write this using the block shit?
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ugh, don’t get me started. I HATE it. I just go to the ‘classic’ and write inside the ‘classic block’ (which by the way lost it’s word-counting ability – how does one count words anymore? I keep having to copy and paste into word to see how many words I’ve got). This whole ‘block’ thing is supposed to be intuitive but all it did is put people inside multiple annoying and fragmented boxes. Sheesh! Oh, okay, you did get me started … 😉
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Got a trick for you! On the Admin page, Click on Posts. At the top, you will see a box with “Add New” and beside that is a little arrow…click on the arrow and choose Classic!
The blog sh*t is for those who do other stuff besides write.
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No arrow next to the “Add New” – nothing to click … 😦 But you gave me an idea to bug the ‘happiness engineers’ about and ask them how to do it (I write in Windows10 on a laptop, so perhaps how it appears has to do with what you write on?)
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At the top? I sent you a screenshot…
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PS I think I found it – you have to do this for each post separately?
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Small price to pay, I should say…
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Totally! THANK YOU! I’ve been beating back the encroaching blocks every time I try to write something.
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I feel ya, Sistah! Today was the day they tried to force me…nuh unh…
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LOL, yep, We stand in resistance-of-the-blocks.
We shall be called the BAB : Broads Against Blocks! 😉
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LOVE IT!!!
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I love the tension you built in the writing. Going back, leaving. and the minute details she notices to keep herself from thinking what happens next.
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Thanks, Tien! There is always so much going on behind the quiet faces of people on buses, don’t you think? 🙂 I’m glad this spoke to you!
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I agree. So well done. I could see her perfectly.
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Thank you! I’m so glad the character ‘communicated’! 🙂 I’m so pleased! 🙂
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Love the imagery
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Thank you, Jude! 🙂
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My deep pleasure
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🙂
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Oh, I wonder where she’s going back to? Childhood home? First married home? Old school? College? Whichever, you’ve definitely painted it atmospheric
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I wonder where she’s going, too … but yeah to the atmosphere – the photo ‘led’ right to it … 😉
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I do try with the photos… I wonder which photo I’ll choose for this week?
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I guess we shall see, eh? 🙂
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🙂
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