Brigit's Flame August 2014 Challenge (Week One) - Put Breath in You

[fawatson]

Title: Put Breath in You
Author: Florence A. Watson
Written for: Brigit's Flame Challenge August 2014 (week one)
Main Prompt: Bones
Secondary Prompt: Ezekiel 37, 4-6
Length: 523 words
Author's Note: This is intended as one scene within a longer story which I am still in process of writing.

Comments

[rubyelf]

The Old Testament is rather harsh in its judgments...

And war is harsh in the toll it takes on so many lives.

[fawatson]

The Old Testament has amazing imagery; but it is the fire and brimstone part of the bible which of course made me think of WWII.

[bluegerl]

OUCH. And ouch again.

Can't say much more, it hurts where it should!

Thank you.

[fawatson]

I'm glad it hit the spot.

[fawatson]

Thanks for reading and commenting, and big thanks for a lovely prompt that got the writing juices flowing. I changed the biblical quotation slightly to use the King James version which is what a Church of England member would have been familiar with in 1939. But I thought you'd be OK with that.

[fawatson]

August looks like a good start, and I am sure your imaginative prompts are helping.

[darlinleo]

Beautiful and succinct. I definitely enjoy finding that the prompt inspired a larger tale, and that urb_banal's inventive alternate challenges are getting a great work out this week! Well done, fawatson :D

[fawatson]

Thanks for your kind comments. I think urb_banal really has done an exceptionally good job with all of the challenges.

[jlly_coppercorn]

The use of the verse was a very powerful turn of emotion. Well done. You're the first one of the 'Bone' writers I've noticed to use the add on challenge.

I hope you'll share the larger work with us when you have more finished.

[fawatson]

Thanks