Short Story Creatively Written

Short Story Creatively Written - Prompted by Image

I've completed part of a pre-assignment to Ardith Goodwin's upcoming Narrative class that starts next week. This includes choosing a painting I love, and writing a story about it.

I love the work of Rob Gonsalves having first seen it in a children's book titled "Imagine a Night". He considers his painting genre as 'Magic Realism' -- a mix of reality with magic. His work really does spark one's imagination by way of optical illusion.

This is my short story about one of his pieces titled 'Ladies of the Lake'.

Story: We always camp on full moon eves -- along a nearby lake under the cover of a great circle of elder pines. They stand so straight and tall as if sentries guarding a great gate. On overcast eves, we know the ladies come, but we can't see them. They make no sound, and there is no other light than that which comes from behind the cloud-cover above. Soundly we sleep, while the silent footfalls of parading dreamers awaken.

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