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Flash Fiction: Patience is a Virtue

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This is a short story I just wrote up for a flash fiction contest for the Short Story and Fiction Society (SSFFS). The prompt was the following picture:

From the blog of Nicholas C. Rossis, author of science fiction, the Pearseus epic fantasy series and children's books Photo: http://www.nature-places.com/15-most-amazing-ghost-towns/

Patience is a Virtue

I’m patient, as befits all immortal beings. Urgency is such an undignified concept. I open my embrace to let my children be carried by the wind. One tiny grain, then another and another. Always moving, always flowing like the stars whence I came. The meteor that brought me to this once blue piece of glass in the skies became my womb.

Like all babies, I was born hungry. And thirsty. Everything I touched, I converted to more of my children. I drank the seas, then the rivers and the lakes, then the sap from the trees and the blood from the screeching ones’ veins.

They fought me, of course. I didn’t mind. They planted trees, impregnated…

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About The Owl Lady

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Viv Drewa is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan, her passion has always been writing. She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather's escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the "Polish American Journal" as "From the Pages of Grandfather's Life" and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story. Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron's 'The Times Herald", and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter "Thumb Prints." She also has a business promoting authors. Owl and Pussycat Book Promotions. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Port Huron, Michigan.

2 comments on “Flash Fiction: Patience is a Virtue

  1. Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed the story!

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