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 Sean Jeating and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are:

1.death  2.forward  3.important  4.intend  5.left

and/or:

1.pleasure  2.step  3.touch  4.things  5.understand

Here is my quite-a-bit-shorter story:

The unexpected death of Denise had a sobering effect on all the other residents at the home. Denise had been the youngest of the "Twilighters" having been eighty for only ten days. Still taking pleasure in all the simple things in life, looking forward to the next day, the next week, the next ice cream cone, with childlike anticipation.

Losing her made the rest of the Twilighters feel as if they themselves had taken one more step towards that final sleep. At breakfast the next day, several of the "younger crowd" in the seventy to seventy-nine age group came to share condolences, feeling that it was important to let the Twilighters know they understood, even if all they did was touch hands or shoulders for a while.

Even Terry looked up from his dominoes table and said, "one of us has left." Oddly enough it was Alan who acknowledged this and sat down to arrange the dominoes ready for a game. "Yes she has," he told Terry, "but we are all still here and I certainly don't intend to go away anytime soon." Terry blinked away a tear and uttered another completely lucid sentence, "we never know, do we?"