The task is to write a story in 6 sentences, no more no less, and if you’d like, share your creation or just visit and comment, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Diana. The prompt is ‘Clip”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Story on “CLIP”
She’d hoped to make the rounds before the storm blew in and kept her indoors and isolated for the next week and a half. She started out with the usual chores–library, groceries, pet supplies for the cat, liquor store, quick visit with her mom—but wanted one final hike at the State Park, taken at a fast clip, with its rolling hills, pine forests, and sparkling creek.
Once the storm hit, the next time she’d be able to get out of the house, she’d need snowshoes, or skis if they were lucky enough to get enough snow. But then she’d have to dig herself out, if she was going to use her car to get off of her property; her need for one more hike was critical.
She hadn’t anticipated that the weather would change so quickly, and she found herself alone on an unfamiliar trail in the State park, with no lights, swirling snow, and little chance of making her way home safely.
She might be stuck there under the snowdrift until Spring, and a big thaw.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2020)
Valley of the Trolls 
That is a terrifying situation to be in.
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Can only do it from the safety of my imagination…
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Follow the clothesline! Follow the clothesline! (Obscure reference to The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder)
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I got it…Lol!
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Can’t wait for more. Good six. Good use of the cue.
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Lol…this might be all she wrote from this prompt!
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James Joyce: Six novels you say?
William Faulkner: Hold my beer.
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Bwahahahaha! Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t!….
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Love how the pace changed at the same time as the weather. 😊
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Cliff-hanger Six!
My favorite.
‘Best laid plans of meece and men’ (Mr. Jinx, famous cartoon cat philosopher)
Engaging story, which is a high compliment, given the limitations of our form.
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Thank you, Clark.
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And she went to all that trouble so she would be prepared for the storm! And now she’s out in the thick of it. Talk about bad luck.
Do I sense that maybe she will have an adventure in the park?! 😀
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The best-laid plans…we’ll have to ask her at Sping thaw….
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Hopefully, there is a ranger heading toward her just around the bend. Suspenseful SSS.
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Thanks, Pat!
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How something so pretty to see falling and then covering the landscape can quickly turn to danger.
I hope she makes it safe!!
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She’ll tell us, come the spring thaw.
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She’ll tell us, come Spring thaw. 😉
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