June 18, 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that features a solstice. What is the era and setting? Use the solstice as a celebration, metaphor, or talking point. Go where the prompt leads!
June 18: Flash Fiction Challenge
To call them stones
As if you could skip one across the pond
Is to belittle their majesty
I stand in front of them
Waiting for the sunrise
Wishing I could walk back
Through a living moment of history
To see the stars, fly by
To see the sunset and rise over it again
Until I reach the moment when
Salisbury Plain was just that, plain
To watch the first hole being dug
The upright slip into place
On around the circle like a child’s game
Of ring a ring-o’roses
I feel my heart beat with the rising sun…
© Anita Dawes 2021
Anita Dawes and Jaye Marie 
Brought back every memory of my visit there, including how small they seemed, almost as if you could skip them across water. 🙂 Stunning piece of work.
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That means a lot, thank you, Doug!
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Wow, the imagery in this piece is stunning. To step back in time and experience the world as it was before, how magical. Words are powerful in that way. Beautiful piece Anita!
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Thank you so much, Rebecca…
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I found the first two lines profound. Wonderful poem, Anita!
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Thank you, Charli!
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Beautiful. Happy Solstice!
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Thank you!
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