My choice of this week’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge takes me back to the first time I visited the Broads as a teenager. I loved seeing the yachts sailing by me, through the marshes and the farmland! I picked the second image this week.
It’s 146 words 😀
CCC048 Sailing By
They arrived late at the cottage. She only saw the wide, wide sky, filled with millions of stars. A quick cocoa and it was off to bed.
Her tiny room held a bed, and a chair. A weird window started at the floor and went up into a peak. She bent down to look out, but all she saw was darkness. After climbing into bed, she snuggled down with her hot water bottle.
She woke early, to a strange noise. A creak, a flapping, a ‘thonk’ of something wooden, rattling ropes, silence for a while, then it all happened again. She leaned out of bed. A sail was drifting past her window. Then she fell out, and saw it wasn’t sailing in the marsh. The river was only a few yards away. The noises came again as it tacked once more to carry on sailing by.
© J M Pett 2025
Lovely. I’ve only read of the area, of course—but mostly in old kids’ books, which makes it magic 🙂
The evocative sounds. They stay with us forever!
Magical ❤️
Interesting short. I enjoyed the imagery painted here.
“Let’s strive to be better in September!” – Charmaine J. Forde #quote
I have a novella coming out on the ninth. And a post about condiments planned on the A to Z site. Hope you’re well!
J Lenni Dorner (he/him 👨🏽 or 🧑🏽 they/them) ~ Speculative Fiction & Reference Author and Co-host of the April Blogging #AtoZChallenge
You might like my IWSG post tomorrow, J. 😀