Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Lissa and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1. soul 2. brilliant 3. breakfast 4. winter 5. moon

also including Charlotte's colour of the month: black

Here is my story:

Watching the sun glinting off the waves like a million brilliant diamonds had always soothed my soul and I often sat on my porch to eat breakfast while the sun came up.

Today was very different, it was winter and I stood on my porch at midnight, watching the moon instead. A single silver stream cut across the black silk of the smooth water and I lifted my camera to snap a photo.

The day itself had been dark in spite of the winter sunshine. A small group of friends gathered around the gravesite, each of us holding a single candle as we spoke of the year that had gone by since we buried our best friend.

The most brilliant of minds, destined for fame and glory, gone in a single moment from a brain aneurysm. He wouldn’t want us to be sad and grieving too long, we all knew that, and had agreed that this one year anniversary would be the only one.