Harvest

Welcome to The Spot Writers. The prompt for this month is to write a 100-word piece using the five words: harvest, glow, iron, paint, clock.

This week it’s Cathy MacKenzie’s turn. Her writings are found in numerous print and online publications. New under her writerly belt is THREE HEARTS, a memoir eight years in the making about her son’s last days and the aftermath. Available locally from her or on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1990589197.

Check out www.writingwicket.wordpress.com for further information on Cathy’s works.

 

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 Harvest

by Cathy MacKenzie

 

It was the time of harvest, the fall season when all things come to fruition. We never looked at the clock, never needed to see those iron-coloured hands move—or stop. We just knew. We had planted the crops. The rains poured. The sun shone. The crops grew.

And when day dawned and light did glow so colourfully and brightly as if brilliant paint on a dull canvas, we knew we’d succeeded.

Soon, harvest was done!

We locked the doors, hiding those creatures until the following year, when out they’d come again, to breathe in the aroma of another harvest.

 

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The Spot Writers:
Val Muller: http://www.valmuller.com/blog/
Catherine A. MacKenzie: https://writingwicket.wordpress.com/wicker-chitter/
Phil Yeats: https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com
Chiara De Giorgi: https://chiaradegiorgi.blogspot.ca/