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Ink will find a hole to seep through
Lily tucked two mousey brown wisps of hair (that had escaped the roughly styled french twist) behind her ears. She had woken to a morning that smelt like buttered toast and cinnamon. Sipping a brewed coffee from her favourite cat mug she mused about what the new day might bring.
After draining the cup dry she washed it and just as she went to place the cup on the dish rack the phone rang. The shriek of the phone ringing gave Lily such a fright she dropped the cup onto the emerald green kitchen tiles smashing the cup beyond piecing back together with super glue.
Thomas arched his back and scurried off the mat and through the hole in the back door to see if his lady love Lily needed help. He surveyed the broken bits of china on the floor then looked up into Lily’s face. He was pleased to see that she was not crying this time.
Ink will find a hole to seep through by Lisa Jewell
I have been having a very dry time of it, my muse has been hiding out and though I’m not sure she is back, I just this moment felt ink trickling through my fingers and so Lily was born.
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Hi Lisa; anything with cats is a favorite with me, but this is just adorable!!!
Thanks Joe,
I really appreciate :) and yeah I’m a cat girl xx
– Lisa Jewell
Your ink will always find a way :)
:)) xx
– Lisa Jewell
A cliffhanger!!! Please, more!! More!!!!
hehe JR…
Perhaps,
Perhaps
Perhaps :)) xxx
– Lisa Jewell
Certainly a cliffhanger with words spun together as pleasing as silk.
Gosh that is a nice thing to say,
thank you so very much :)) xx
– Lisa Jewell
The thing about this story is Thomas’ response. He expects her to break, to shatter like the cup, to be a mess, but something is different, something small, but big. I have know this in my own life and it means something to me. When we act different, we gain experience, we somehow handle stuff, we become different people in the eyes of others, we become round and whole.
Indeed,
I so agree and yes I knew that there was going to be something different about the day for Lily but I did not know until I finished
that I love :)
thanks so very much x
– Lisa Jewell
Lilly! Bring her Lisa! x
:) okie x
– Lisa Jewell
If felines could talk…I hope Thomas doesn’t have to see you cry a lot…life is too short for too much crying : )
Lovely write, Lisa.
I too love the feline’s; one, Aritmus Levon. My daughter left home and cannot have pets where she lives so, Quincy Paul. And a VERY good woman, an old friend, my professor in college algebra, I stayed with for 8mths 4x a week before her passing. I have her precious, What. What is the last of four felines of hers before her passing, the other three: Who, Where, and Why…cremated, her request to have them buried with her. Once, What, passes he will be placed in an urn buried at her plot.
peace and love to you Lisa
marymac
wow Mary,
thanks for sharing :)
I’m currently without cat but I doubt that will last long. I miss having a furry friend to snuggle on my lap.
xox
– Lisa Jewell
Good ink Lisa… Becoming able to bend rather than break.
Thanks Dick,
yes indeed…be the reed :) xx
– Lisa Jewell
I could write a story about dropping a big heavy tv onto a tile floor but your story is so much better :)
Plus the tv seems to have survived.
Enjoyed reading this one Lisa xx
I’m so glad you enjoyed, Michael and also glad the TV survived :) xx
– Lisa Jewell
I just got me hair done.. no longer a mouse.. send her my way… I think we could have some fun my love..
Feels good to read you.xooxoxoxoxoxo
:)))) oOOO you got your hair done, how wonderful it feels to have a new hair do. I"m sure you and Lily would get on very well. Love you xoxoxo
– Lisa Jewell