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Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | January 8, 2016 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Dad’s are kind of hard to get. Mine never said much. He brought the fishing rig behind him, like he was pointing at one of my footprints in the sand that wasn’t neat enough. Then he cast it with just a hint of violence. Maybe one of the clouds was bad.
He smiled at me with eyes full of something that seemed to get stuck in his throat and handed me the pole.
“Here you are, honey.”
Fishing there with him in the ocean was the happiest time. Mom said that was as far from Afghanistan as he could go.

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction, Uncategorized

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6 Responses to “Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge”

  1. darleenclick
    January 8th, 2016 @ 10:52 am

    Seems my eyes are getting a little full of something.

    Bravo, Smitty. Me like very much.

  2. Steve White
    January 8th, 2016 @ 7:12 pm

    We fished separately. We always did. We’d be on the same beach together and it would be as if Dad was a thousand miles away. I don’t think he ever watched me fish but I always watched him. Sometimes when I caught a large fish he’d walk over with a landing net and, without a word, help get the fish into the cooler. Then he’d slide back to his spot. Grandma told me once that it was just the way he was, that Afghanistan had done something to him. She never said what, and he never said anything.

  3. smitty
    January 9th, 2016 @ 7:28 am

    Nicely done.

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  5. Steve White
    January 9th, 2016 @ 10:12 pm

    Thank you. I’m going to try these every week for a while.

  6. smitty
    January 10th, 2016 @ 5:12 pm

    I think it’s a great exercise.