She stared in the mirror, one hand holding the ends of her hair, the other running a brush as gently as possible over its knotted curls; sparks crackled green and sharp, and she didn’t want to burn down the apartment complex.
Her boss had emailed to tell her that with acceptable levels of vaccination, restructuring of office workspaces, and lifting of Federal and State public health guidelines, it was time to come back to their sophisticated high-end shop, present and in person, and recapture the market.
Her time of working remotely from home had revealed strange new powers at the same time that her job sales and their accompanying commissions had declined to almost nothing.
She was certain that her new powers were directly related to her hair; it loved being uncut and unstyled, and the danger she saw in the green sparks as she brushed was nothing to the growing vitality she felt as it grew, inch by luxuriant inch.
But really, she looked more like a green-eyed wild woman than the tony, cultured sales consultant the customers demanded to see if they were going to pay her what she used to make, before the pandemic and subsequent economic crash.
Was cutting her hair to conform and be solvent a greater gain, than letting it spark loose and powerful in ways she had yet to fully understand?
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2021)
*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 “POWERFUL”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
Valley of the Trolls 
Keep the hair and all it stands for!
What a great story, Liz.
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❤🧡❤
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No! Let it grow! 😀
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(Why am I hearing a Disney them song from “Frozen” in my head? Shriek!!!)
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I think the ‘green-eyed wild woman’ sounds cool!
And she should remember Samson…
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Exactly!
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“Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair”
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🎶🎶🌞🎶🎶😆🎶🎶
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I hope she figures out what is happening to her hair before she has to go back in to work. I can imagine the transition of going back in to work for many will be as hard as working from home.
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Time will tell for us all. Thanks, Frank!
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Very timely story! There are so many choices we make as we decide which parts of our pandemic behavior we keep, and which ones we leave behind.
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You nailed it, Ann. We can/should never go back to not knowing about choice & cost.
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Well done!
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Thanks, Mimi!
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Shocking story (boom, tish). Hair raising but hilarious. 🙂
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🤨😂 Hey, I sing the body electric…or perhaps my hair does. I dunno…
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Such a brilliant Six making the hair a character in its own right. So true that for many during the pandemic, hair care was a sacrifice. Here it has become a superpower. I hope she keeps it growing!
But yikes, must be weird having to go back to work after this time.
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Life choices as we recover from quarantine and shut-down. Which skills/powers do we want to embrace, which leave behind?
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Good questions. I had to work throughout. But a gulity pleasure for me was the silence outisde/no traffic/people during the full-on lockdowns. You could hear and see nature coming to the fore for once.
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Dilemma indeed! Great job on your six
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Thanks, UP!
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