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
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