The music box sat on the shelf for years until he walked in. Under a thin patina of dust, the delicate inlaid top of exotic woods was missing pieces; one “leg” of the box gone so it tilted. Few people wandered this far back into the shop; dim light through the grimy window barely cast his shadow. He lifted the lid; the box’s musical workings long silent, played an off-key, halting version of Clare du Lune. Then he knew for sure it was the one. Once polished til it gleamed, the inner mechanics oiled til the box played the song with perfection. His grandmother used it to quiet him; to send him off to sleep. His search was over, he thought, or had it just begun?
For mmlm first line Friday 31.03.17. Dylan provides the first line – the rest is up to you. Welcome Dylan, by the way.
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March 31, 2017 at 6:19 pm
Good response Lorraine, enjoyed the little journey..
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April 1, 2017 at 12:52 am
Thanks Michael. A short trip into remeninces.
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March 31, 2017 at 1:45 pm
Beautiful story. how wonderful to find that exact music box and to have that memento back. Well told :)
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March 31, 2017 at 1:47 pm
Thanks. The sentence gave me the feeling of an unconscious search. Still thinking of quests, I guess.
And good luck with your prompt next week. I’m sure it will be interesting!
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March 31, 2017 at 9:43 pm
Thank you :)
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March 31, 2017 at 12:07 pm
And was he drawn to it or lead?
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March 31, 2017 at 1:43 pm
Good question. I think he was searching without consciously realizing that a piece of his past was calling. Does that make any sense.?
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March 31, 2017 at 4:27 pm
Yes, it does. There is an effect that something are tied to us/families can reach back to us. I’m thinking this is an eastern European thing
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March 31, 2017 at 4:30 pm
Yes. Precisely. How did the surgery go? Hope your wife is doing okay.
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March 31, 2017 at 6:09 pm
She’s groggy and getting along with me and her Ultram pills. Dr says she has wear on the knee but she’s going to be mobile in days
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April 1, 2017 at 12:57 am
Sounds like everything went okay, and she will have a good recovery.
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April 1, 2017 at 1:53 am
She’s sore but moving around already. Good thing I can cook
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April 3, 2017 at 10:38 pm
Good thing she likes to eat what you cook.
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April 4, 2017 at 12:11 am
She’s can’t drive to McDonalds at the moment. I was made to suffer from affluent negligent… I actually had to learn things like cooking at laundry as both my parents worked. I learned true German cooking with little measuring. I like to dissect food from restaurants and figure out how to make it.
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April 4, 2017 at 7:31 am
Well done. My husband was well trained when we met. He does his own cooking, ironing, mending, hemming. He is better at it, or doesn’t trust the job I will do. My father always did his own ironing, and my mother wielded the hammer and saw.
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April 4, 2017 at 9:56 am
We had a similarly split marriage at first. The wife has decided her way is better at most things. So I cook certain meals normally. I haven’t done laundry since she came out in Dec. Even with one leg.
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