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Liverpool

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Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle. Our host is
Brenda Warren; her prompt words for this week are
shown below. Here’s where the prompts took me.

crush, crisp, creamy, script, brisk, dreams,
dust,  seeds, dim, night, whisper, and shimmer

Image by Me & Gemini

The winter of 1940 arrives crisp and without mercy.

Helen sits at the kitchen table long after the children have gone to sleep, the night pressing itself against the frosted glass like something that wants to be let in. A single candle burns. Its light is dim and creamy, pooling soft across the grain of the table her husband built before the war took him to a place whose name she could barely pronounce.

She has been staring at the blank page for an hour.

The script comes slowly at first, her handwriting smaller than usual, as though the words might escape notice if they stay close together. She writes about the market, the bread line, the brisk walk home through streets that smell of woodsmoke and cold stone. She writes about small things because the large things would crush her.

Then she pauses.

Outside, the first snow of the season has begun to fall, and through the glass she can see it shimmer faintly in the gaslight. On the window sill sits a sparkling layer soft as dust. It reminds her of something he once said …. that snow was just the sky’s way of planting seeds for a quieter world.

She smiles and signs her name, then folds the paper and tucks it inside an envelope sealed with a whisper of a kiss.

She blows out the candle and climbs the stairs to bed.

She dreams of her husband.

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This is “I’ll See You In My Dreams” by Joe Brown

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28 thoughts on “Liverpool”

  6. Liverpool got its name from an Old English phrase, first recorded around 1190 as Liuerpul, meaning a “thick or muddy pool” or “creek”. This likely referred to a tidal inlet from the River Mersey—often described as murky or muddy—around which the original settlement developed.

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