© irene waters 2018
“It’s good to have you here.” Her mother nodded agreement, squeezing Rebekkah’s arm.
“See you in the restaurant sixish for breakfast love.” The elderly couple turned and walked away, heading to the burré they had been allocated in their daughter’s hotel. The dim lights from the house disappeared plunging them into the dark.
“I didn’t know blackness like this existed.”
“No stars. No moon. No electricity.”
“Wish Beccy’d given us a torch.” They stumbled into trees, down ditches unable to find their way.
“We know the light always comes. Let’s just sit and wait. We’ll sing.”
“What?”
“Two blind mice.”
In response to Charli’s prompt where she asks:
November 29, 2018, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story using the phrase “into the dark.” What must a character face? Write about an encounter, journey, relationship, or quest. Follow the ship’s lights on gloomy seas. Go where the prompt leads you.
Respond by December 4, 2018. Use the comment section below to share, read and be social. You may leave a link, pingback or story in the comments. If you want to be published in the weekly collection, please use the form. Rules & Guidelines.
My piece this week is a BOTS (Based on a true story). When my parents visited my on the island of Tanna they had never come across darkness such as the type we had when there were no stars or moon visible in the sky. It gave us a good belly laugh when they were presented to us at our house by a local who’d heard them scrabbling around in the bushes a long way from home. No, they weren’t singing two blind mice.
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Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
Sweet, funny, and a bit macabre – totally an Irene story, and well done at that!
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Thank you very much.
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Who need eyes to see in the dark? Clever flash, Irene!
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Thanks Miriam.
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You’re welcome, Irene!
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Ha, ha! Oh, Irene, I love your dark humor!
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Thanks Charli.
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Sweet story, Irene, reminds me of some of my own misadventures in dark places without electricity. And a good advert for your book.
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Thanks Anne. I’m trying to take your advice.
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Hope it works out for you!
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😀Time will tell….
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Haha! Two blind mice. That’s funny, Irene, but the reality probably wasn’t.
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No I think they were panicking a little but we would have noticed them missing earlier as it was dinner we were meeting them for not breakfast.
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