Short Story – Lost at sea

All she could see was sea, an endless unknown blue. She had been treading water for a while now assuming someone would come and save her or show her the way, but that hadn’t happened. She didn’t know what to do. She could just pick a direction and swim but what if it was the wrong direction, she could expend all that energy and have nothing to show for it, she would die having accomplished nothing. Of course, she could always stop trying, sink into the blue, let the water wash over her and never have to worry about anything again but the thought of not existing terrified her more. She wanted to live, to explore, to try new things, to meet the future and find out what life had in store for her but she knew she couldn’t do that aimlessly bobbing about in the sea. She just needed to decide which way to swim before her time ran out.

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Writing Challenge: 100 word story – The Magpie

She knew the rhyme, ‘One for sorrow, two for joy…’ but wasn’t superstitious of the magpie who visited her each day; she had had enough sorrow to fill a hundred lifetimes, so one magpie couldn’t alter that. The magpie always welcomed her to the garden with a rattling caw and perched on the wooden chair next to her as she read her book in the warm sunshine. Eventually, to her sorrow, he fell asleep in her lap and didn’t wake. Her heart broke for the last time and her eyes closed, as the sun shone and the birds sang.

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