Esther Jno-Charles: June 2011

Monday, June 27, 2011

An orange glow through the pond

My daughter was practicing parallel parking yesterday afternoon when we stopped for an impromptu walk through one of the two parks in our neighborhood. Check the orange glow of the sun powered light as it glistened though the green pond water.

Enjoy.

Message in a Bottle

PromptMartha marries at nineteen, teaches for ten years, and raises three children from the time she is twenty. All the children and the mother graduate from college. But the Madeline has no job, very little money and whales of debt. Debt collectors clog her telephone line, their letters fill her mailbox. Her financial boat, reeking with the stench of poverty, is tipping over. What can I do? Madeline cries, tears dripping pages showing her spoilt credit. One night, eyes glazed with the scales of stress, Madeline peers uncertainly into her foggy horizon, groping for tinges of light. She sees none. But suddenly, she hears a grumpy voice; she turns around startled, and listens more attentively. She hears it again. It said, “I will be poor no more.” “‘Will, be poor no more,’” Madeline repeats. All night. In her sleep. In her dream. Next day, she wakes up, repeating “‘Will, be poor no more. Will, be poor no more.’” Determined to find ‘Will,' Madeline does something so bold, so creative, so simple, that it yanks her from the planks of poverty. Were you once in a similar poverty boat? If so, in 199-499 words, splash your story of triumph over poverty here. (Submit autobiographical story through email:esterjno@hotmail.com. No ATTACHMENTS PLEASE! I will soon be back with submission instructions)

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Monday, June 27, 2011

An orange glow through the pond

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