(Author’s note: I am hoping to do some cleanup and addressing of things in the upcoming future, but I’m unfortunately having to focus some of my off-time to completing the creation of tests and development of school related things. I plan to have an updated “State of the Blog” coming sometime around late April. Otherwise, here’s today’s fictioneers.)
© Fatima Fakier Deria
by Miles H. Rost
Chengcheng looked up at the mast of her small junk. She knew it wouldn’t get her far.
“I must try. If I do not, I die.”
She looked out at the sea and smiled as a seagull took off in flight, exactly in the direction she wanted to go.
“A gull’s wings fly with the wind.”
She slowly moved the junk out into the harbor and along the coast. She figured it would take a day to get to Taiwan, to freedom.
The craft cleared and charted it’s course. It was up to the winds to get her to freedom.
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I hope they do!
I’m hoping she makes it too!
If she follows the gull, she’ll be fine.
I hope freedom is there to receive her.
One wishes her a benevolent wind.
I hope that mast holds up.
Winds wafting her to freedom!
Wonder if she survived!
I suppose freedom is important to life and living!
I hope she makes it. Maybe the gull brings her luck.
Nice feeling of hope in this story.
I hope she makes it to freedom!
I hope her progress is as free and unimpeded as the gull’s