On a recent summer trip through the southwest United States, Annie admired the many brightly painted ceramic skulls she saw in gift shops. They seemed to be happy, not scary. She wondered why so many people collected them, skulls weren’t her thing. After getting home she read for the first time the definition of the Mexican Holiday, Day of the Dead. Now it all made sense and she wished she had bought some for her parents and brother-in-law’s gravesites. She decided to paint flowers on three flat stones and leave them for her loved ones next time she visited
Written in response to Charli Mills October 31, 2019, prompt at Carrot Ranch Literary: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about the Day of the Dead. It can be the Mexican holiday, a modern adaptation of it, a similar remembrance, or something entirely new. Go where the prompt leads!
11/04/2019 at 11:47
The idea of the stones at the end showed how ideas morph and how we can make do…. also felt he respectful heart tug of connecting though the painted stones being left
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11/04/2019 at 15:38
Thanks Prior.
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11/04/2019 at 12:27
I like your interpretation, Susan.
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11/04/2019 at 15:37
Thanks Robbie.
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