Charli’s prompt this week:
February 8, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes fireweed. You can use it as the plant, a flower, a metaphor or as the name of someone or something. Go where the prompt leads. Burn bright when you write.
“It’s hard to believe the carnage that happened here a short while ago.” Olivia looked around at the bombsite where once her home had stood.
Across the whole area, pretty purple flowers grew, giving the destroyed street a hazy filter.
“That rosebay willowherb has just taken over. It’ll take an age to clear it up too, before we can even think of rebuilding…” Janet sighed.
“Fireweed… that’s what they call that, across the Atlantic, where I’m from.” Chuck, the GI who had befriended them at the dance the night previously, said. “It sure loves a bit of burned ground!”
I’m not great at researching pieces, often just going where my mind takes me with prompts, but with this one, I had to do a little reading first, as I didn’t know much about fireweed, and other than cracking a joke about fire and wee… my imagination was coming up with nothing! Apparently, fireweed was rife where the bombs had razed parts of London to the ground, during World War 2.
https://carrotranch.com/2018/02/08/february-8-flash-fiction-challenge/
Charli Mills
Feb 14, 2018 @ 21:28:41
Congratulations on writing a historical flash fiction! I find research can be inspiring, too. I like how you connected the US and UK versions of what the plant is called.
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Ritu
Feb 14, 2018 @ 21:29:29
Thanks for allowing me to learn something new Charli! 😀
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Norah
Feb 13, 2018 @ 11:03:31
Interesting story, Ritu, and I like the way you effected the communication across the waters.
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Ritu
Feb 13, 2018 @ 11:10:31
Thanks Norah. It wasn’t an easy one!
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Norah
Feb 14, 2018 @ 03:21:13
I agree, Ritu. I didn’t find it easy either.
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Ritu
Feb 14, 2018 @ 08:29:31
But I managed to learn something while researching!
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Norah
Feb 15, 2018 @ 05:14:27
That’s always a fun thing!
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Ritu
Feb 15, 2018 @ 07:38:37
True! 😀
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robbiesinspiration
Feb 13, 2018 @ 04:33:48
Great idea, Ritu.
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Ritu
Feb 13, 2018 @ 07:46:27
Thank you Robbie!
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syl65
Feb 10, 2018 @ 22:38:02
Learned something today Sister!
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Ritu
Feb 10, 2018 @ 22:49:57
Me too Brother!
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syl65
Feb 10, 2018 @ 22:54:39
You did wonderful with your story!
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Ritu
Feb 11, 2018 @ 08:45:45
Thank you Brother!!!
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explorereikiworld
Feb 10, 2018 @ 20:29:30
Loved the take!
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Ritu
Feb 10, 2018 @ 20:37:50
Thanks!
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pranabaxom
Feb 10, 2018 @ 15:02:03
Learned something new. Otherwise I would have thought the same as you suggested – weed that you fire up and exhale not inhale like Bill Clinton😊. Now how does one exhale without inhaling?
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Ritu
Feb 10, 2018 @ 15:09:55
Lol!!!!!
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OIKOS™-Redaktion
Feb 10, 2018 @ 12:07:20
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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dornahainds
Feb 09, 2018 @ 23:23:09
Excellent! 😎😎😎😎😎
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Ritu
Feb 10, 2018 @ 00:29:08
Thanks Dorna!
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Jennie
Feb 09, 2018 @ 21:54:14
I learned something here!
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Ritu
Feb 09, 2018 @ 22:03:45
Me too Jennie!
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Jennie
Feb 10, 2018 @ 00:48:22
🙂
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Infinite Living
Feb 09, 2018 @ 21:54:01
Very nicely done!
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Ritu
Feb 09, 2018 @ 22:03:36
Thank you 😊
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Infinite Living
Feb 09, 2018 @ 22:04:09
You are welcome 🙂
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Erika Kind
Feb 09, 2018 @ 20:37:25
Amazing take, sis! Thought-provoking!
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Ritu
Feb 09, 2018 @ 20:47:40
Thanks sis! Found this one tough !
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Erika Kind
Feb 09, 2018 @ 21:23:05
I understand that well and see where it took you. Compliment!
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Ritu
Feb 09, 2018 @ 21:35:04
You are so sweet!
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Erika Kind
Feb 09, 2018 @ 21:42:11
😘
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