The inspiration for today’s Six Sentence Stories post came as I propelled myself back and forth in a rocking chair while gazing out the window, lost in my thoughts. While the cue word wasn’t what promoted the story, fortunately after I completed the story I was able to find a place to use it. After sharing the story with my husband, he said it reminded him of a Seton Watch and for all intents and purposes, it was. I am linking my post to the blog hop, Six Sentence Stories - Filter, hosted by Denise of Girlie On The Edge's Blog
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The kettle was circling high above the logged area of what had once been a forsaken Christmas tree farm gone wild. Sometimes they painted celestial whorls, but maybe to break the monotony, interjected slow motion, constantly changing geometric patterns, a daylight version of asterisms with the individual vultures being the stars in the constellations.
Although they began with eight in number, one began to soar beneath the rest and venture further away in an easterly direction as though he’d dropped through an unseen filter in the sky as the others maintained the same altitude while slowly moving toward the west as the sun was beginning to sink lower in the orange-tinted sky. Perhaps the loner would be able to find the committee before darkness settled in and his night vision made it difficult for him to find where they had perched for the night.
One has to wonder why he purposely left the kettle, choosing to descend. Did he see or smell carrion the others didn’t, and maybe had been left out to lunch at the first feeding, or did he just lose sight of their real purpose, to find a place to rest for the night, before continuing their migration in the morning?
A careful observation leads to an interesting story. :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteBeautifully written and great use of metaphor (although I did have look up 'kettle' and 'asterism' to see it fully - thanks for the education).
ReplyDeleteThank you. I also received some education just writing this.
DeleteAnd a story is as close as the view outside our windows. Marvelous Six, Pat.
ReplyDeleteWhat a view from your rocking chair! I'm jealous :D Delightfully descriptive story. Like Doug, I had to look up the same 2 words as well as the term "Seton Watch". This is exactly why I enjoy reading Six Sentence Stories - entertainment and learning all in 6 sentences :)
Thank you, Denise. Glad you enjoyed it.
DeleteI liked this description: "Perhaps the loner would be able to find the committee before darkness settled in"
ReplyDeleteThank you, Frank.
Deleteway Fun Six!
ReplyDeleteExcellent scene and very fun assortment of lookup-able words... like a paint-by-numbers with nearly all the colors filled in, but a few left to the Reader (via wikipedia)
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Thank you. Love your comparison of the story to a paint-by-numbers.
Deletegreat wordsmithing this week. good six.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much.
DeleteFascinating, to study the ways of birds and wonder how and why they do what they do.
ReplyDeleteThey can put on quite the educational show at times.
DeleteI learned a new word! Never had I heard kettle like this. (Thank you wikipedia)I kept thinking you meant kestrel. Either way it was well written and I saw the kettle described even without having had it n my lexicon. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThe different names there are for variations of groupings of birds is so interesting. Thank you for sending me to the dictionary to make sure that lexicon was what I thought it was. 🙂
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