"Why do they move all the time?" she asked her grandmother
"The wind is telling us a story and the leaves are his words."
"Leaves are not words grandma, you're being silly. Leaves are just leaves." she giggled
"When you write, do your words move across the paper?" grandmother tried to intrigue her
"Yes, but they don't disappear." she was determined to prove her point
"Ok, but does the story you write take you to different places in your mind. Do you see and feel the images you've created?"
The little girl started to wonder, a spark of imagination was lit in her mind and everything slowly began to fall in its place.
"Look at the leaves more closely my dear. Do you see it? Do you see how the story is changing? With every movement, something old is replaced with something new and the story continues."
This was my entry for the freewrite challenge organized by
, the theme was "palimpsest" and/or "describe wind". The only rule was to set a timer for 5 minutes and write until the time runs out. If you liked my story please visit blog and read the rest of wonderful pieces in this short story fun making :)
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