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If you’re not familiar with this challenge, our host is ‘dear-to-our-hearts-Denise’.  Click the link above to meet her and learn how easy, fun, and popular crafting 6-sentence stories is.  Each Sunday she supplies a Prompt Word, then we’re off and running  writing!  This week’s word is BANK.  Everyone’s invited, come join us😊

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During the few years they’d been friends, Finn had kept the fire of his longing for her banked.

Neither were young anymore…he’d envisioned standing beside her at the altar, putting a ring on her left hand…and imagined the silver season of life would be filled with comforts and companionship of love lived daily in the same house.

His brother James–best friend, a Catholic priest–had admonished him periodically, and again this very day, with characteristic humor.

“Finn, old boy…you did the marriage thing faithfully for a goodly portion of your life, and you weren’t truly happy–at best it was an amenable habitation, but with a dearth of shared interests.

Why can’t you embrace the fine, enriching friendship you have with Bedelia, and be content…if she can’t overcome her fears of marital commitment you still have more, in quality, than men our age who’ve settled–quite precariously, I dare say–for online hook-ups and speed-dating.”

“Oh goodness–” Finn said, “speaking of speed, I need to drive Beedee to the bank…she called early this morning, frantic because her account is overdrawn by five bucks–I better run, you know how she frets…and yes, I remember: ‘day by day’, ‘perseverance’, ‘God has a plan’.”

©V.Sparrow, 2024