Vesta followed the vertical rainbow even as night dampened the skies, and mists rose up to cloud her vision.
She had chased it for miles, snapping pictures with her camera of the rainbow between earth and heaven. No pot of gold necessary.
She knew if she stood in it’s stream of colours, she would be cleansed, freed of the visions and voices that haunted her.
The bitter and the blood of her past and present would disperse, flowing upwards/downwards.
Like all things in her life, the vertical rainbow remained just out of reach, over the next hill, down in the next valley as Vesta struggled.
She crumpled into tears, too tired to continue. She rolled into the fetal position, eyes squeezed shut. She did not want to watch the rainbow slip away.
To leave her like her friends and lovers did. To tease her with hope and promise, then dash her dreams, smash them and her head against the wall.
If only once, there had been an anomaly, a different ending. A wish granted, a hope fulfilled.
As she rocked on the mossy ground, she felt a strange warmth. Peaking with just a slit of an open eye, she saw a bath of shimmering orange, indigo and violet where she lay.
Written for Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt: anomaly #writephoto (Another amazing photograph by Sue!)
© my frilly freudian slip
November 7, 2016 at 5:16 am
I do like a happy ending. Well written.
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November 7, 2016 at 8:14 pm
Thank you.
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November 7, 2016 at 5:16 am
I so love a happy ending.
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November 7, 2016 at 8:14 pm
Even I have to write one now and then.
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November 5, 2016 at 9:57 am
I’m glad she got to take one last bath :) Seriously though, it’s a lovely ending. And it makes a pleasant change :)
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November 10, 2016 at 8:11 am
Thanks, Jane. I need to remind myself that happy endings are possible at times.
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November 10, 2016 at 8:34 am
It’s hard to write them without feeling that you’re lying somehow. I’m glad you plucked up the courage :)
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November 4, 2016 at 2:54 am
Very nice :)
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November 10, 2016 at 8:14 am
Thanks. A lot of folks went to the dark side. I decided to go with the light for a change,
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November 10, 2016 at 11:31 am
Odd how that took hold … I like the light.
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November 10, 2016 at 8:39 pm
American elections had an influence?
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November 11, 2016 at 1:27 am
Quite possibly.
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November 11, 2016 at 7:34 am
Everyone’s writing took a dark turn last week.
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November 11, 2016 at 8:06 am
Except mine :)
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November 11, 2016 at 8:17 am
I should have been clearer: I meant across prompts, too. Yours was very light and enjoyable.
I found darkness was present responses in other writing prompts as if the collective writing world saw a gathering darkness over a particular geographic area and were influenced by such.
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November 11, 2016 at 8:26 am
I think that may well have been the case, though I think we are wrong to allow fear to dictate to our imaginations.
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November 3, 2016 at 11:34 pm
How sweet! Happy endings are the best!
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November 10, 2016 at 8:15 am
Thank you Sonali.
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November 3, 2016 at 11:24 pm
I did enjoy this take Miss Frilly, nicely done..
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November 3, 2016 at 11:29 pm
See, I can write a happy ending! Just a little harder and longer stretch for me.
Thanks, kind sir.
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