(#FiveMinuteFriday* – Milestone. 28.July.2023)
A five-minute milestone in the car while the man drives.
It’s just five minutes, but it’s been a lifetime since the last five minutes.
My brain rebels against the smallness of time. Not enough to develop a thought, much less a story. Not enough if there is even a smidge of interruption.
“What are you writing?” the man asks and I shake my head.
The clock is ticking. I must write. I must not stop to answer. Even a head shake pushes the boundaries here.
“Musings?” he presses.
Still, I write.
“What does the word musings even mean? I use it and don’t know what it means,” he says.
Still, I write.
“Inspired contemplations,” he persists.
The car escapes down the road.
It’s a Ford. White. An Escape. Not in a metaphorical sense.
Truly. An Escape.
“A lot of people going to the lake,” he says.
Boats. Sea Doos. Stowed rods with fiberglass bend.
Still, I write.
I throw a stone at the mile marked.
It’s just five minutes.
It’s enough.
*Five Minute Friday is a one-word writing prompt supplied by Kate Motaung, a writer extraordinaire. For more about Kate, visit her website HERE. more about Five Minute Friday, click HERE.
I love this, Kristy. It’s so beautifully expressed I feel as though I’m right there in the car with you.
Glad you’re back.
You are a talented writer.
Thanks so much for your kind comments. Glad you ‘rode’ along. May I be a worthy travel companion.
Honestly, I feel this. Sometimes it is so hard to get my thoughts to come together around the thing that I want to write, and it feels like a milestone when I can finally hit “publish” and hope it’s good enough. And I have similar conversations with my man too 😉 Thanks for sharing this moment in your day.
Thanks so much for reading my post. I’m not sure why I have so much resistance at times, but writing through it seemed to help in this case. Have a great day!
Another use-the-time-you-have moment and example that anything can become writing fodder.
Indeed, Diana! I kept getting these FMF writing prompts and kept ignoring them. It’s a thirty minute trip to church, I figured I could use five of those minutes to write since I had a competent driver at the wheel 🙂 Thanks for reading and responding. Perhaps this milestone writing will get me out of this strange rut I’ve found myself in. Blessings, my friend.