I have been wanting to return to my own writing, so this week instead of a quote, my own 100 words on the challenge.

Lemonade – The Sweet and the Sour

They are 10 years old, the best of friends, still in overalls and pigtails, running a lemonade stand out on the front walk.  They sing to their customers hoping for big tips, and they are rewarded.  Everyone loves 10-year-old, blond, blue-eyed, budding entrepreneurs.  It’s sort of like puppies, or kittens, or baby coos.  Something about getting close to that innocence from which it is still possible to experience unfettered joy.  In just a few short years, these girls will shift hard into adolescence, and hurricanes of hormones, and clouds of self-doubt will begin to creep in.

It’s always hard to make my pick of the week.  Often it’s more about what kind of mood I’m in and what resonates with me more than anything else.  Sometimes life throws us curve balls, and in the wake of life altering events we search desperately to make sense of things, to go back in our mind again and again to find the moment where we could have done something differently.  We need to feel we have some kind of control over our fate, and that we aren’t just puppets knocking about on Fate’s stage.   Patsy captures this well with her piece this week.

In other words…

  • More sweet and sour metaphors…
  • A lemonade ghost story.

That wraps up last week’s challenge.  For those of you that are new, welcome!  And for those of you lurking, visiting, or serendipitously stumbling your way here, speak up, we’d love to hear what you have to say in 100 words.  (If you need a debriefing on the challenge, go here but ignore the timelines in there.)

This week the writing challenge comes from The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold again.  I just finished the book a couple of nights ago.  It was stunning, really.  I’d love to hear what you think if you’ve read it.  If you haven’t, don’t be scared away by the subject matter, just read the first chapter and you’ll be hooked.

Rain

I’ve been doing some other writing lately, and I may start sharing it here, so check back!

With love,