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 at her blog 

This week's words/prompts are:

1.heartbreak  2.cheeseburger  3.postcard  4.afterlife  5.beachcomb

Charlotte's colour of the month is Electric Rose

Here is my story:

At the memorial site chairs were made available for William and Josef and for Nanna Ruby too, all were happy to sit while Russell Fielding and Theo Skargill made short speeches about the cave, how it was found and what had been inside it. The small group of boys who had been the first finders gave small cheers. 

The local Chaplain, Ian Smithson, said a short prayer for the souls of the lost, while admitting that it would do nothing to ease the long ago heartbreak of the families left behind who would also be long gone by now. 

Colin Walker, whose crane had winched Jim Anderson to safety was also thanked, along with William for providing the carved cross and carved Albatross and Nanna Ruby for the painting of the flowers, sunflowers for the sunshine and forget-me-nots for the sailors whose bones now lay in glass cases in the museum. 

As she stood to acknowledge her applause a breeze caught her new Electric Rose pink chiffon scarf and lifted it like a sail. Josef remarked, "that would be a soul saying thank you for finding us. He can move on to his afterlife now." 

Photographs were taken by Marty Shaw and Colin Patterson, for the newspapers and Maggie asked if copies could be printed for each of the boys, postcard sized would be fine, and Marty agreed that would be a fine thing for each boy to have.

The portable podium was taken away after all speeches and photos were finished and picnic baskets were produced for a happy lunch for everyone, though the boys were heard to mutter something about "a cheeseburger being really good right now." Maggie overheard and promised cheeseburgers the next day.

William and Josef made quick work of several sandwiches and a couple of slices of cake too, then settled down to discuss the view, the beach at the base of the cliff and the hidden cave which William declared must have been sealed after the ship sailed into it, possibly by a small section of cliff eroding and falling.

Nanna Ruby brought cups of tea from a thermos and sat down to join the conversation. "When I was young I used to beachcomb along the shore down there, after a storm," she said, "just like Jim and his friends were doing on the top of the cliff."