The Cardinal

Fifty-word story [36]

Photo by Patrice Bouchard on Unsplash

Violet James visited her children every spring.

This year she returned in the form of a cardinal. She landed on a high branch overlooking the backyard. All three children laughed as they played soccer. Her husband glanced up at her and smiled.

She took him in, chirped, and flew home.

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Thanks so much for reading “The Cardinal” — I hope you enjoyed it. And thanks a bunch to Kim Smyth for the suggestion of writing a fifty-word story about spring.

I press onward toward my obscure goal of writing fifty “fifties” (as Jimmy Doom once called them). Sometimes I forget how challenging it is to write a story in fifty words. Let me know if you think I got it right — or somewhere close.

Take care! Have a great weekend.

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