100 Word Challenge – City
Another installment of The 100 Word Challenge brought to you by Velvet Verboisty. This one was difficult to keep in the parameters.
Beyond the loud crowds is another world. A world where the neighbors sit together, fanning the heavy still air as they laughingly recount the day’s happenings and times past. A smiling stranger offers a bowl of etouffe from her stove as if all were family. Here strains of music can be heard drifting on the air growing until it moves limbs and catches heartstrings and binds every spirit together. Beyond the flashing lights and glittering façade designed to entertain visitors is a beautiful city. Her soul will forever call to those who know her and our souls ache to respond.
thenightblog said,
July 11, 2008 at 5:30 am
That’s lovely! A wonderful take on the whole “polluted, corrupt, too-busy, materialistic” city. Like the city has a heart of its own.