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Linda Brown's avatar

Nice!

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

👍🏻 Thanks. I appreciated the comments of our writing group before hand.

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K.C. Knouse's avatar

You got it, Sharron: run free, live free. The first paragraph draws a beautiful picture.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thanks, KCK! I know nothing about horses, I admit. It was a challenge from Justin Deming that took me off into this unknown territory.

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

Well, that hit me smack-dab in the sternum.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

I thought of Sue Cauhape the whole time I was working on this one. Sue Cauhape, who knows horses, while I, myself, have never patted or sat on one…

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

🥺😲 Oh Sharron, that must be remedied. If you're ever in the neighborhood .......

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Hmmm. Let me think about it. No. ha ha ha

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Perfect!

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

You are so nice, Barrie. I thank you so much for re-stacking! It is so helpful.

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Always a pleasure to share your words.

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Jill CampbellMason's avatar

None of us born to be corralled! Perfect, if words can be, last line. Your timing for each of your phrases is special. Like being a conscientious objector instead of fighting, just surreptitiously changing the way things are to make a little piece of this world a little more human.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thank you, Jillness

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Mark Starlin's avatar

A nice metaphor. Run free, wild spirit. But could you stop and get some milk, please?

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

And a bag of Doritos.

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Mark Starlin's avatar

Yummy.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Yay! Thank you.

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C J O'Hare's avatar

50 words of pure poetry here - I love this one Sharron!

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thank you , Conor, and thanks to Justin for the prompt! Horses -- something I never thought would figure into one of my stories.

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Ben Woestenburg's avatar

Excellent! I Like it.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

🌿👍🏻

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Bill Adler's avatar

I love this story. It's a 50-word gem.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Yeeeow! Thanks Bill! 🩷

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Janice Walton's avatar

Nor was I - I'm glad they are free, but can they fend for themselves?

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Don’t know anything about it. We will have to ask Sue Cauhape of Ring Around the Basin. She knows horses.

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Jim Cummings's avatar

"...within the folded and fractured hills." I can see them, Sharron. Well done.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thanks, my friend!

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James Ron's avatar

I could feel the ground shake under the horses hooves.

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thanks, Ron!👍🏻

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Justin Deming's avatar

50 words of perfection! Beautiful, Sharron!

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Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thank you, my hero. And thanks for the re-stack! It really helps.

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T. D. Wolf's avatar

I feel that way about orcas too.

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Yael Gelardin's avatar

Freedom!

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Rebecca Holden's avatar

Oh, it was the perfect story already, and then BANG - the beyond-perfect last line!

Wonderful, Sharron. Such great writing. x

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