Milk Bottle 17: Heartland

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: Heartland
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Milk bottle 17 (Funhouse)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Lilith Faire Main Stage: Traveling Again, Dar Williams), miniature, seed beads, glue (Your unflagging tenacity continues to accelerate your progress in life, but it's useful to stop for a moment to take stock of your past accomplishments.), fabric (this image), acrylic (Bored to tears)
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: She loved her hometown. She did.
Warnings: sexism.
Notes: For reference, Ahava grew up in a teeny-tiny little town in Alabama.


Ahava loved her hometown. The little streets and the statues and all the joys of small-town life, so maybe it wasn't a surprise that she left as soon as she could.

So did Duncan and his sisters; so did all of her siblings. It wasn't that they didn't love home, but it was a place you came from, not a place you stayed.

Sometimes she thought leaving was a mistake, on lonely nights when the city overwhelmed her, longing for the crickets and cicadas and her mother's soothing voice.

She still knew there was nothing else she could have done.

Comments

[rootsofthestories]

Ohhh, this. This so much. I understand this notion even though I'm not from a super small town. I just really liked this.

[bookblather]

Thank you! I'm glad it resonated.

[novel_machinist]

but it was a place you came from, not a place you stayed.

Man do I know those places

[bookblather]

I hope in a good way!

Thank you!

[shipwreck_light]

This even smells beautimous and I love it!

[bookblather]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[kay_brooke]

Yes, I totally get that. There's always a small, nostalgic part of you that misses it, but you know it's for the best that you left.

[bookblather]

Yes, exactly. The same way you want to un-grow-up and be a child again.

Thank you!