This week’s GirlieOnTheEdge challenge prompt is bridge—six sentences, no more, no less.

Sometimes bridges lead to nowhere
  1. Hanging in her living room, my friend Majda had a picture of the Stari Most bridge in her hometown, Mostar, Bosnia–before its destruction.
  2. She had left her torn country with her two beautiful daughters and what she (and they) could carry.
  3. In the U.S. she was learning her fifth language and trying to find a bridge between this unknown inexplicable country and the one she’d left.
  4. She saw no bridges in this country
  5. “I don’t even know my neighbors’ names,” she lamented. “They leave their apartments in the morning, jump in their cars , and go to work.”
  6. “In the evenings, they shut themselves in with their TVs and their air conditioners.”
Majda’s print was much darker than this