It’s a two-fer this week, combination 6 Sentence story and Carrot Ranch prompts!
The stewpot was emptied of root vegetables, venison gratefully given, and thick brown gravy sweetened with brunost. Crumbs of spilled flatbread caught the flicker of resting embers, and a half-dozen children snored under heavy woolen blankets. The littlest, wrapped in rabbit’s fur, lay in his mother’s arms.
“Leave him. He’ll sleep well enough under the Northern Lights.”
She nodded, tucking him next to the oldest girl, and said a prayer for the children departed.
“The Lights shimmer tonight; propitious for calling another soul to our family,” he hefted their sleeping fur.
She followed her husband into the snowy night.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2020)
Carrot Ranch Prompt (12/03/2020): In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that includes family traditions. It can be related to any holiday or situation. How does the tradition impact the story or change the character? Go where the prompt leads!
The challenge? Write a story in 6 sentences, no more & no less, and if you’d like, share your creation or just visit and comment on others’ ideas, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Denise. The prompt is “Horizon”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
Valley of the Trolls 
Well done. Putting the story reader in the characters shoes.
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Thanks, Lisa!
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Bravo, I echo the other readers…this is so well done.
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Thank you so much!
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You are sincerely welcome 🙂 ❤
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You painted a beautiful scene complete with the bare necessities of life in a family and the trust and dependence needed to survive even in the most harsh circumstances.
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Thank you, Pat! ❤
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Dude!
Heckuva a line!
*and quite nearly tactile setting of the scene
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Warm under all those blankets against the harsh elements. A visual Six showing us fortitude.
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Very visual and poignant, Liz. I’m always amazed when a writer can describe a scene and capture a moment in time so completely in a mere 6 sentences or 101 words! Nicely done 🙂
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Thank you!
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May her prayer protect their children.
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Touching six. Happy Holidays
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Thanks! God Jul to you, as well!
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A tender look at family-making in the North. It must be bittersweet to know that chances were slim that children lived to be grown.
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We do live in more fortunate times, in that regard…
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