The following six-sentence blog post is excerpted from my novel, The Reluctant Canary Sings. It’s posted in response to the GirlieOnTheEdge weekly challenge.
A storm flashed across Cleveland as Mom and I talked about Dad’s watch, and why he was so darned attached to it when he could pawn it to buy food.
“The sisters gave it to him when he left the orphanage—said they found it in the box with him. An apple box on the steps. He says that watch is the only proof he has that he came from real people. Otherwise, he says, he’d have to think he hatched out of a dragon’s egg.”
The thunder, when it came, was a low, guttering growl, rolling away like a dragon seeking Its egg.
I like the suggestion that the watch could be the dragon’s “egg”. If so, it may be best to get rid of it.
You are anticipating the conflict.
Well done . Watch/egg hmmmm
His one and only tie to a family he never knew. No wonder he won’t part with it.
No wonder, and yet . . .
He was willing to experience hunger in order to hang on to that which was most important to him, a reminder of his original roots.
And yet, it wasn’t just his hunger.
An intriguing story!
Thank you. I strive to keep my readers interested.
An ominous sign that maybe his thoughts were right and the dragon cometh!
My Six!
He doth have his dragons and they do breathe fire.
I also wouldn’t part with the single tangible item left with me as the only connection to a life and history I’d never know. The last line causes me to wonder if it is he who the thunder seeks. Compelling Six, Faith.
Thanks. In a way, it is he that the thunder seeks.
If he gives up the one memento that tells him who he was, even beyond the need to feed himself and his family, will he be pushed to discover who he is now?
Is that watch/dragon’s egg a catalyst for change?
I hadn’t thought of it that way because he’s a minor character and I wasn’t thinking so much about him. But yes, it turns out that way.