Weekly Prompt: Who Can’t Celebrate That New Love Feeling
You know the one, in the beginning, all tingly and surreal.
Welcome to the next weekly challenge for the monthly theme:
December Theme: Time to Celebrate
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The aim this month is to celebrate all the important moments in our lives. Despite the challenges or because of them we need to celebrate.
Celebrating new beginnings
Love — the first kiss, first marriage, first divorce, first child, new child, new partner. All those new beginnings are the fodder for your fables.
The week is a fun one for the romantics, or the realists. This week we’re focusing on stories that celebrate new beginnings.
That first kiss. The one wet on the porch after running through the rain. Or the one in the movie theatre in the dark, knocking over popcorn and ignoring those aliens invading.
Or the first marriage, the hopeful one, the clean slate and the white dress one. The naive and doomed one. The one that cost the earth or the one you eloped for.
Maybe it’s the first divorce that should be celebrated. The freedom from a bad choice or divergent paths. Champagne either way.
Or is it the moment our choices knock us out of the center of the universe. The birth of your first child. When all your focus shifts, the universe tilts and pours everything that matters into the future of that child.
Or the new child, the surprise one. A whoopsie. The little bundle, family tease you about, saying, “We thought you knew where babies came from by now!” The “laat lammetjie”, we call them in South Africa, the late little lamb.
Maybe it’s a new adventure on an open road with a friend or a partner. A new map and marker for all the places you’ve been. A beat up Lonely Planet and a general sense of direction.
Or the new venture. A risky little business about to get off the ground.
It’s up to you, to celebrate any of these new beginnings.
Challenge Requirements
Your story must:
- Tells us a story about a character finding out who they really are.
- Be 300 words exactly, excluding the title, subtitle, and any post-story bio / links. (We use Medium’s own word count feature.)
- Be fictional, even if it includes factual information or concerns.
- Use “New Love” as one of your five tags. We recommend Fiction, Flash Fiction and maybe your genre too. But it’s your choice.
- Please, link back to the prompt so others can find it easily.
Example Story:
First published story for this prompt goes here.
