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A STARTING PLACE – #flashfictionmagic

January 12, 2023 by Sheri

#flashfictionmagicA STARTING PLACE #flashfictionmagic
The shoots rising from the bulbs were so strong, so green, the dirt rose tangled with them.
She stared at them in mid January, wondering how such slow growth could lift the very earth.
The snow still lay in swaths, falling and mounting and receding again.
When she stepped inside the cottage again, shivering and red cheeked, he waited at the kitchen table.
“You don’t remember any of this?”
He shook his head slowly at her question. His face was clean shaven, his dark curly hair neat behind his ears. He used to let it go wild, when he sat up late playing music he’d just written.
She spun and pulled his guitar from the wall, holding it out to him. Something softened in her when he reached for it instinctively. His eyes lost an edge of terror as he cradled the instrument a strummed a perfect chord. “My hands remember this.”
A hot tear crept down her cheek as he played the song he’d written the day before his accident. Before he’d forgotten her and the life they’d built.
“Irene,” he said softly as he finished. “I will remember you.”
She held his calloused hand in hers and let herself cry. Like the shoots outside, they would slowly rise together, and build it all again.
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Hi, I'm Sheri Yutzy. I love forests under the night sky, trying new foods, and drinking Irish tea.
I'm married to a musician who looks good in black, mama to two toddlers who love to eat, and happy resident of a Cape Cod cottage in Ohio.
I write YA fantasy and am acquisitions editor at sparkflashfiction.com.
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I feel like I stumbled into this month and everyon I feel like I stumbled into this month and everyone else has a plan.😏 But that’s okay. The past few weeks have been marked by 3 hour editing sessions and 30 minute power cleans and intense conversations with friends. A lot of things happening, and they’re happening without my being all organized, so I’m grateful for that.
But while I love the progress and growth I’m seeing in myself and my book, I do need to stop and breathe.
Tea, poetry, strolling around the garden to find all the green buds coming up—these things help me breathe.
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What helps you breathe? Do you need to do it today?

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This sweetie is turning five in a few days. I love This sweetie is turning five in a few days. I love being her mom so much. Our friendship keeps growing as we make more memories and learn to understand each other. Sometimes she says the most insightful things. I love having her in my life.♥️
A little bit of coming spring in great-grandma’s A little bit of coming spring in great-grandma’s pitcher.
A little pink and green promise of golden age to come.
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I never seem to find enough time to do what I want I never seem to find enough time to do what I want to do.
Sound familiar?
This month I’ve learned a few things about pursuing quiet.
For me, quiet feels slow.
I think I can still pursue it even while having bursts of activity, but in between the bursts, I have to slow.
That slowness can breed frustration, which isn’t quiet at all.
It’s not really about making time for it, more about letting time go. Let it pass, without making it perform.
I love it even though it makes me uncomfortable to begin.
I had a little extra writing time last week and in this picture I’m attempting to find quiet in the midst of it. Journaling helps me focus my thoughts on quiet things.

How do you find quiet in your daily life?

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