Flash

DON’T BLINK

Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶
© Jennifer Pendergast

“Grammy, come see our new homework room. Daddy painted the walls for us. Come look!”

My grandchildren tug at my arms, leading me into their newly decorated room. There were three workstations for them to do their schoolwork, shelves lined with books and a big old wooden chest filled with treasures.

The underwater scenes my son painted were wondrous; honestly, the theme didn’t matter.

It was the memories that came flooding back to me from thirty years ago when he painted the walls of his own room with cartoon characters he created.

“Crying? No, sillies! Just something in my eye.”

NAR © 2023
100 words

29 September 2023

69 thoughts on “DON’T BLINK”

    1. Thank you, Keith, and based on fact.
      My then 12-year-old son asked if he could paint his cartoon character called “Monstroid” on his bedroom wall. Of course, I said yes. To my amazement in a relatively short period of time his walls were covered with his creations. For his own children, he painted an underwater scene in their playroom, one not too different from our prompt photo today.
      Fact is definitely stranger than fiction.

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