Comments on: A Story to Be Told… http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/ My Twenty Years with an International Photojournalist...Then and Now Tue, 22 May 2018 13:51:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Becky Green Aaronson http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4598 Becky Green Aaronson Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:54:54 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4598 23. ---THE END--- Thank you writing friends for making this such a fun process. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined this story coming from this writing prompt. 23. —THE END—

Thank you writing friends for making this such a fun process. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined this story coming from this writing prompt.

]]> By: Cindy Brown http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4596 Cindy Brown Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:59:11 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4596 22. "It was worth staging my own death to meet my great-granddaughter! Now, everyone close your gaping jaws and mend your fences while I get a hug from the most beautiful little girl I've ever met and get to know the apple of my grandson's eye. Nadine, hold my gun." 22. “It was worth staging my own death to meet my great-granddaughter! Now, everyone close your gaping jaws and mend your fences while I get a hug from the most beautiful little girl I’ve ever met and get to know the apple of my grandson’s eye. Nadine, hold my gun.”

]]> By: Brenda http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4583 Brenda Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:54:22 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4583 Great responses.. so many voices, so many writers with quirky voices. Great responses.. so many voices, so many writers with quirky voices.

]]> By: Becky Green Aaronson http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4521 Becky Green Aaronson Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:27:16 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4521 21. The weight of silence nearly suffocated Shane as he looked from Aunt Nadine to his grandfather, then finally his father. It was only the tiny chirp of a voice that pierced the tension, allowing everybody to breathe again. "Grandpa?" she whispered as she looked up from her pink sparkly cowboy boots. Shane's father was taken aback by her beautiful cocoa skin, long eyelashes and the rainbow of color adorning her cornrow braids. Her sweet presence disarmed every grown-up she'd ever met. Her grandfather was no exception. All he could say was... 21. The weight of silence nearly suffocated Shane as he looked from Aunt Nadine to his grandfather, then finally his father. It was only the tiny chirp of a voice that pierced the tension, allowing everybody to breathe again.

“Grandpa?” she whispered as she looked up from her pink sparkly cowboy boots.

Shane’s father was taken aback by her beautiful cocoa skin, long eyelashes and the rainbow of color adorning her cornrow braids. Her sweet presence disarmed every grown-up she’d ever met. Her grandfather was no exception. All he could say was…

]]> By: monicastangledweb http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4514 monicastangledweb Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:52:27 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4514 20. A young man wearing a hunter green jacket and plaid slacks stepped forward from beneath the shadows of a jacaranda tree. Looking straight into the eyes of Aunt Nadine, he said glibly, "Aunt Nadine, is it? I've been standing here for quite a while, wondering when anyone would notice me. I am Shane's partner, for the last five years, and together we have just adopted a child. Would you like to meet her or is this a bad time?" 20. A young man wearing a hunter green jacket and plaid slacks stepped forward from beneath the shadows of a jacaranda tree. Looking straight into the eyes of Aunt Nadine, he said glibly, “Aunt Nadine, is it? I’ve been standing here for quite a while, wondering when anyone would notice me. I am Shane’s partner, for the last five years, and together we have just adopted a child. Would you like to meet her or is this a bad time?”

]]> By: Bella http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4501 Bella Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:15:29 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4501 19. Aunt Nadine interrupted saying, "Before you answer that, shouldn't you introduce us to the young man who's been standing here for the past ten minutes looking at us like we're crazy?" 19. Aunt Nadine interrupted saying, “Before you answer that, shouldn’t you introduce us to the young man who’s been standing here for the past ten minutes looking at us like we’re crazy?”

]]> By: Harper http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4500 Harper Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:33:56 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4500 18. “If you’re here, who was it we just buried?” Shane asked. 18. “If you’re here, who was it we just buried?” Shane asked.

]]> By: injaynesworld http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4490 injaynesworld Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:22:26 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4490 17 ... where there, dressed in his Sunday best, stood his grandfather as alive as any of them, holding his old hunting rifle, which he'd just fired into the air. "Shane, help your father up. I'll be damned if he's going to die before I do and I'll be double-damned if I'm going to die before this family is reunited." The family stared at the old patriarch in complete shock. 17 … where there, dressed in his Sunday best, stood his grandfather as alive as any of them, holding his old hunting rifle, which he’d just fired into the air. “Shane, help your father up. I’ll be damned if he’s going to die before I do and I’ll be double-damned if I’m going to die before this family is reunited.” The family stared at the old patriarch in complete shock.

]]> By: Brenda http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4484 Brenda Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:04:03 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4484 16. The reunion was too short. Shane wanted to linger in the gaze of his father's love longer but the gunshot echoing overhead took both of their gazes back to the front porch. 16. The reunion was too short. Shane wanted to linger in the gaze of his father’s love longer but the gunshot echoing overhead took both of their gazes back to the front porch.

]]> By: monicastangledweb http://animprobablelife.com/2012/10/22/a-story-to-be-told/#comment-4474 monicastangledweb Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:39:56 +0000 http://animprobablelife.com/?p=6619#comment-4474 15. "Dad, I love you!" exclaimed Shane, taking a step toward his father, and with his arms outstretched, he continued, "It's been too long and I want a truce." As he said, this he saw his father's eyes soften perhaps, knowing that he was right. It was time to settle old grudges, and accept his son for what he was. 15. “Dad, I love you!” exclaimed Shane, taking a step toward his father, and with his arms outstretched, he continued, “It’s been too long and I want a truce.” As he said, this he saw his father’s eyes soften perhaps, knowing that he was right. It was time to settle old grudges, and accept his son for what he was.

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