Photo: Priscilla du Preez via Unsplash
They did not need a rink when the lake made one for them. They did not have a coach but their skates learned to guide them. They were one with the ice as the pucks flew around them. They played in the cold while the old mountain charmed them.
“Should be safe to rest here,” Ron lowered Percy’s carrier. The straps left red gouges on his shoulders. The boy was too big to be carried but we had to leave the wheelchair behind.
Ron rolled his neck, glanced at the underpass’s puddle, and reached for the tablets. “I’ll purify some water.”
“Will they find us, Mama?” Percy put words to my heartache. He’d endured silently through miles of jarring terrain.
“We’ve been careful,” I looked into his worried eyes as I massaged the contracted limbs. “Also, new laws or not, we won’t let you be taken by Leave-Only-Abled-Children raids.”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Amid pebbles and sand
Atop tenacious pale greens
Three mouths unseal
In communal reveal
To welcome
Potential
Under an
Arid sun.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Trio
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
This little light
That shines
This little light
So fine
This little hand
Aglow:
May your wonder
In wonder
Grow.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lights
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
On a fence
In the city
Under balconies
To the sky,
Climbs a purple
Bunch of
Pretty,
A tangled riot
Reaching high.
For Deb’s One Word Sunday: Purple
Photo: Amitai Asif
As cold wind blows
And worries grow,
Squirrel away
Soul sustenance
And stash fresh hope.
As harsh congeals
And harm leans close,
Squirrel away
Good words of heart:
They’ll help you cope.
For the RDP Sunday challenge: Squirrel
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
“It doesn’t matter where you live,” they said.
She knew they lied. It most certainly did!
When rain leaked onto your mattress and the wind snuck in through the window and mice crawled over your cheek in the middle of the night, it more than mattered.
“The only thing that matters is who you are,” they said.
Perhaps. But what good was it being a princess if your room was drafty and the tower creaked and the stairs were grooved with age and slippery with sloshed-over chamber-pots?
She’d swap her chamber for a page’s pallet by the hearth, if she could.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Castle in 100 words
Photo: Amitai Asif
Spin a wheel to the field
Turn the earth, pull the weeds
Plow a line, plant a seed
Rumble on through sun and wind
Powered by many steeds.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Tools
Photo: Atara Katz
In the soft curl of foam
In the rush of cool waves
She will beach
She will trench
And will lay
Out her hopes
That a future
Will come.
For the Wits End Photo Challenge: Four legged friends
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Walking along
Paths of life,
Stop to sip
Pause to laugh.
Make small moments
Of cool calm,
Find someone
To lean on.
Take a rest
Take the air,
Live well through
Time’s wear and tear.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: drinks
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