100-word drabble challenge
“Sunlight”
Melinda looked out her hospital window and watched the sunlight dance on the petals of the sunflowers, fittingly named for their penchant of looking like smaller versions of the burning star, seeming to attract the light from their namesake and dance in the warm breeze of a summer day- everything about this scene brought to mind warmth and peace. It was a nice mental image, and Melinda would hold it tight in her mind’s eye, relishing the imagined warmth on her skin even when the chilled air of fall began making it’s rounds, the needle slipping beneath her skin, the chemo therapy running shivers throughout her body. But for now there was warmth, for now there was a million miniature suns dancing just outside that hospital window- for now there was sunlight.
End word count: 135
Melinda looked out her hospital window and watched the sunlight dance on the petals of the sunflowers, fittingly named for their penchant of looking like smaller versions of the burning star, seeming to attract the light from their namesake and dance in the warm breeze of a summer day- everything about this scene brought to mind warmth and peace. It was a nice mental image, and Melinda would hold it tight in her mind’s eye, relishing the imagined warmth on her skin even when the chilled air of fall began making it’s rounds, the needle slipping beneath her skin, the chemo therapy running shivers throughout her body. But for now there was warmth, for now there was a million miniature suns dancing just outside that hospital window- for now there was sunlight.
End word count: 135
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