Catch All For My Tears
Raven's Hall Drabble Prompt #1
Wikipedia defines a drabble as follows :
A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.
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See the round cushion that takes pride of place upon my bed?
That's more than a tiny pillow to lay my head. It's my 'catch all' for any tears I shed when I break.
It holds a special place within my heart, in honour of my baby girl, who graced our world for a few short minutes, before growing her angel wings.
Made from her blanket, the last earthly item to touch her bare skin, before she quietly passed into eternal sleep.
Now I lay upon her pillow when the grief overwhelms and she catches my tears as they fall.
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This Drabble has been written for Raven's Hall Drabble Prompt #1 (Raven’s Hall is a publication on Medium).
The prompt is as follows :
The Prompt
Write a drabble about why you own something that someone might wonder about.
About the Creator
Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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