A freewrite: https://steempeak.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-727-5-minute-freewrite-thursday-prompt-stone-wall
If this stone wall could tell it's own story, what do you think it would be?
Families?
Horses?
Dogs and cats, field mice and bees?
A small family, perhaps, with an old, sad widower raising her two children the best she could until they were too restless to stay home, and the horses too restless to be kept by one old lady.
And dogs. Stories of family dogs chasing the field mice into the waiting paws of the family cats. Dogs and cats working together; a better time.
These stone walls would tell a story of a house with two stories, bottom with the kitchen and mud room, and top with three small bedrooms, each with a window to peer out into the pasture before it was retaken by the woods.
There would be stories of young children playing with the dogs chasing the mice, and children leading and feeding the horses, and not-so-young-children bringing home courtiers, and dances, and singing, and crying over break-ups, and lost family members, and passed dogs who will never again chase a mouse to a cat.
And a story of that old widower finally moving on with a tear in her eye, taking only memories with her, yet leaving those behind for these stone walls to share with whomever stops to listen before they, too, finally move on.
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