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Bright New Beginning
She wore bright, striped tights; the almost fluorescent
rings going up up up her legs until they disappeared behind her oh-so short
denim mini skirt. She wore flat black ballerina pumps which were pounding fast
on the almost empty pavement in Aberdeen. A double-decker bus rattled past and
stopped at the end of the road to let no-one off, and no-one got on either. Her
ipod – on shuffle – jumped to Paolo Nutini’s ‘Pencil Full of Lead’, and with a
smile on her face, she upped her pace yet again. Today is a new beginning, she thought, a bright new beginning.
Laura Besley
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I've decided to take two-three months off blogging, so I won't be posting (apart from maybe the odd one or two things) in July, August and possibly September also. This is for a couple of reasons. The main one is time. Blogging, although I love it, takes up a lot of my time and I want to use this time to focus purely on new writing and improving old writing. Also, over the next couple of months I'm going to busy with Summer School, I'm going on holiday and my mum is visiting.
So, thank you all for reading so faithfully. Hope you all have a wonderful summer, or winter if you're in the southern hemisphere!
Flash Fortnightly will continue through July and August. FF #17 is kind of sad, but kind of happy too. I see it as an uplifting piece, so I hope you do too. Click here for The Great Escape.
Aaaaaaah, very sweet. Paints such a happy picture!
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought! :)
DeleteBounces along with optimism and hope.. with a musical lilt to the language.. Excellent!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tom. Really appreciate your comment! :)
DeleteI like how her tights refelct her mood.
ReplyDeletehaha! Yes, they do, don't they?!
DeleteNice one. I especially like the striped tights!
ReplyDeleteThe tights are proving to be very popular! :)
DeleteReading this, I had the same feeling one does after watching the last scene of a really good film. What a great scene.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful compliment! :)
DeleteNice bounce to this. And I just had to look up the video for that song. It's... um, cute!
ReplyDeleteI like the song much more than the video - it's a bit weird! ;)
DeleteWonderfully graphic! I like the ominous bus, promptly assigned to irrelevance, taken over by her bout of optimism. Uh, OK, I kinda like the tights too since they seem so popular :)
ReplyDeleteThe tights have been particularly popular!! :) The bus is pretty ominous, who knows what's going on there...
DeleteI don't know the song, so I assumed this story was the first day of a transvestite or transsexual being out as who they want to be, with the song title being ironic.
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