Pages to Pink

She twisted the knob to water flowing ice cold, then gently transforming into steamy mist. Tested and adjusted, curtain drawn to harness the cloudy heat, a toe dipped, a sharp breath and quickly withdrawn. Determined, she slowly submerged one, then two feet and lowered, all in, shoulder deep to soak. Body immersed into silky bubbles; mind absorbed in paragraphs and chapters.

Pearls of sweat rolling slowly down her face, and neck are ignored while she’s living another life within the book’s pages. Sleepy eyes droop, book drops to the floor. She emerges pink, and glistening to wrap into thick cotton.

100 Word Challenge this week is “Pink”. Pink for many is flowers and Spring, but in my world we are buried in a deep freeze of single digit temps with snow stacking. It doesn’t seem to have an end and my escape comes nightly in a hot tub with a good book where I’m the one who’s pink. “Click” on the image below to read some of the other submission to this weeks challenge.

Hand of God

I swear I see copper winking at me from inside the Ruger’s barrel. He attacked me while I was jogging in the park. Earbuds in and a head full of tunes, and I didn’t hear him. He materialized in front of me with the gun pointed at me eye level.

“What the hell?”

A grin stretches his face. He chuckles then begins laughing.

I throw earbuds, phone, watch and yell,

“What do you want?”

He wipes at the tears from his maniacal laughter and pulls the trigger.

BOOM!

Nothing.

Laughter stops. He runs.

Looking down.

I’m ok.

No bullets.

Blanks.

This week’s word for The 100 Word Challenge at Thin Spiral Notebook is “Blank”. I’m linking up HERE where you can read the prompt and other submissions.

100 Words – Hand of God

A Diary of Intentions

Daisy was ten. Passionate, attentive, loyal and deeply spiritual. Her loves were soccer, friends, her bike, her rosary and her diary.

Soccer and bicycling were the things that connected her to her peers. One was to be perfected; the other transportation. They each kept her childlike and her enthusiasm was evident in her dedication to sharing them with her friends.

Her pink rosary was well used with chain and medals turned golden. Nightly she prayed a litany of intentions which were kept meticulously documented in her diary. After offering her intentions she blessed herself and began, “I believe in God….”

Writing today for Thin Spiral Notebook’s 100 Word Challenge where this week’s word is “Diary”.
I’ve been on a long hiatus (dry spell) and after completing a seven day photo challenge I decided to challenge myself to writing something for seven days in a row. I’m on day three and decided to visit Tara at Thin Spiral Notebook and here 100 Word Challenge which I have participated in often in the past. Feels good to stretch those writing muscles.