Fire

Posted on August 23, 2003 in Book of Days

Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.

Today’s topic: Something is burning.

It begins as a whirl, a circle of orange dancers with terrible gumby-licks rising from their heads. The life of the plants afire explodes and pops. The dancers move from one blade, one leaf, one branch, one crown to the next. Then the dancers become a regiment, soldiers of orange marching across the hillside, leaving the earth behind them black, black, black.

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• Shameless Agitator
  
• Joker on the Run

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Tomorrow’ topic/prompt: Write about being on the inside.