50 Words - Velveteen Rabbit

Abandoned on a high shelf like an out of favor toy. Mostly forgotten, largely discarded, lonely and alone. Remembered once in a blue moon, when the urge strikes out of the blue. Hope springs, a smile graces my face, only to be dashed as you return me to my place.

50 Words - Sit Still Please

"Stop it! Let me go!" Punctuated pointedly, heatedly as she pries her tiny arm from my grasp. I glance around the waiting room. "Help me!" She shrieks, eyes flashing, darting, searching for a sympathetic soul to rescue her from this distress. My daughter is a two-year-old drama queen.

50 Words - Rembrandt's Light

"You've an old soul, where have you been?"
Face to face with her for the first time,
sizing each other up, I see us both in a new
light. It's the sunset's shadow, our history
together in this brief eternity. She's
Rembrandt's light, his lost love, his wife.
She is me.

50 Words - Art Of Good Phone

"Perv." Softly, she chuckled into the phone.

"You're as bad as I." He countered, the smile on his face evident despite the miles separating them.

"And you love it." She stretched, yawned, righted herself in the middle of her big brass bed pulling the linens with her.

"Indeed I do."