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Welcome to The Spot Writers.

The task this month is to write a story where something yellow is important in the plot. It can be any object or whatever yellow you can think of.

This week’s contribution comes from Chiara De Giorgi. Chiara is currently in Berlin, Germany, doing her best to catch up with semi-abandoned writing projects. Her YA novel “Mi chiamo Elisa” was published in Italy by “Le Mezzelane Casa Editrice” in September 2020. Her children's book “Şebnem ve Schrödinger’in Kedisi” was just published in Turkey by Sia Kitap and in Italy with the title: “Chiara e il Gatto di Schrödinger”.

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by Chiara De Giorgi

Yellow is the colour of the in-between. It doesn’t have green’s peacefulness, and it is not furious like orange. 

It’s when things are just almost good, but not exactly bad.

Photo by Mona Eendra on Unsplash

Yellow is feeling wide awake at 6 am on a day when you planned to sleep in and not knowing what to do with all the extra time. Yellow is one of your best ideas being implemented by someone else. Yellow is a phone call you’ve been waiting for coming just when you’re listening to your favourite song. Yellow is being reminded you are nothing in the grand scheme of things. Yellow is a painting you cannot give the last brushstroke to. Yellow is when your wish comes true but not in the way you had envisioned so you are disappointed but cannot show it. Yellow is wanting but not daring to hope. Yellow is not enough light to read by but too much to fall asleep. Yellow is realising you are replaceable. Yellow is a good story with a crappy ending. Yellow is going out of your way to do something that for others is ordinary and no one will ever know how much it took. Yellow is dreaming of the wrong person. Yellow is being bothered by a messy room but not quite caring enough to straighten it up. Yellow is someone reading between the lines things you never wrote. Yellow is a strong black tea with no milk. Yellow is having a good book but no time to read. Yellow is having a lot to say but no voice. Yellow is when butterflies stop fluttering, but ice hasn’t settled yet. Yellow is being restless but not upset. Yellow is settling for content because you can’t be happy.

 

 

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The Spot Writers—Our Members:

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.com/