Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

January 2, 2024, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story using the color red. It can be a descriptor, a setting, a character, or a metaphor. How far can you get in a story by expanding “red”?

What’s in a Colour?

Some say red is the colour of luck, others the colour of life.

Seeing it through the eyes of a raging bull

Would you feel its fear, his passion to destroy

the matador waving a cape in his face?

If you pierce the side of a unicorn, does its blood run red?

Walk into a church to drink a cup of red wine

to be told it is the blood of Christ

Taste it, can you trace it back to the crucifixion?

As you stand there beneath the cross

You wonder, can You bring back life without the misery?

©AnitaDawes2024