This is my entry for Sue Vincent of Daily Echo #writephoto.
The Crossing
Every day she waited at the crossing. Hope to catch a glimpse of the opening. That strange trick of the light that she had only seen once before when she was a small child of three.
Every day at dusk she contrived to be there just incase the opening appeared again. She stayed in the village she was born in, enjoying a full life, marriage, children,grand and great grandchildren. Helping others always she was known to be a kind and generous woman.
As the years went by people gave up asking why she went to the bridge at the end of every day. It just became accepted, part of life.
It was on her hundred and third birthday that as she stood by the bridge that the light changed. She rubbed her eyes and sure enough there was the opening. There was the village and to her astonishment the same young man who had waved to her all those years ago was beckoning to her.
As fast as her old bones could carry her she began to cross the bridge. It was a long bridge and at first she thought she’d never make it across. Strangely the nearer she got to the young man the quicker she seemed able to move.
As she reached the young man he took her hand and asked her why she had taken so long, she smiled at him and as she looked into his eyes she saw her reflection….. She was young again.
The opening closed the moment she stepped through it.
Back in the village no knew what had happened to her. They searched for weeks be she was nowhere to be found. They all decided that she had,had a good innings.
All bar one child who had witnessed the whole incident. He he never told anyone what had happened but every evening at dusk he visited the bridge.
Jul 05, 2018 @ 20:24:01
I LOVE your take sis π
Jul 05, 2018 @ 20:38:46
Thank you Sis , it’s an old legend but with my twist on it πΉ
Jul 05, 2018 @ 20:52:29
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Jul 05, 2018 @ 21:11:05
I love this, Willow!! ππβ€οΈπ
Jul 05, 2018 @ 21:13:38
A little twist on Brigadoon πΉ
Jul 05, 2018 @ 21:18:29
That was a great movie – haven’t seen it in many years.
Jul 05, 2018 @ 21:24:21
Me either and I loved it π
Jul 05, 2018 @ 22:32:52
Nice!
Jul 06, 2018 @ 06:18:07
Thank you π
Jul 06, 2018 @ 00:02:41
Beautiful tale willow, there’s always hope isn’t there.
Jul 06, 2018 @ 04:47:43
Yes indeed π
Jul 06, 2018 @ 21:34:37
The Fey appear to have a hand in this…
Jul 06, 2018 @ 21:36:49
They certainly do πππΉ
Jul 06, 2018 @ 21:44:58
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Jul 07, 2018 @ 05:36:35
Those Fey get everywhere π
Jul 07, 2018 @ 07:01:07
They certainly do…π
Jul 07, 2018 @ 08:54:06
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Jul 07, 2018 @ 08:55:21
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Jul 06, 2018 @ 23:15:42
Wonderful writing sister
Jul 07, 2018 @ 05:34:43
Thank you Sis ππ
Jul 07, 2018 @ 12:39:04
This is very imaginative, Willow. I really liked it.
Jul 07, 2018 @ 13:32:54
Thank you Robbie it was a little too of the hat to the legend of Brigadoon πΉπΉ
Jul 09, 2018 @ 19:23:49
Reblogged this on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo.
Jul 09, 2018 @ 21:41:42
Love this!! The end gave me goosebumps! So good!!!!!
Jul 09, 2018 @ 21:47:52
Thank you, I am so glad you enjoyed it π
Jul 10, 2018 @ 11:36:13
a real nice story…..was anxiously waiting what would happen in the end!!!!
Jul 10, 2018 @ 11:38:20
Thank you I hope it did not disappoint π
Jul 10, 2018 @ 13:40:10
no it was nice like a fairytale sort of!!! π only she shouldnβt have just disappeared.They could have walked in the sunset together π
Jul 10, 2018 @ 11:44:02
Yes that’s a point but dissapear she did π after if she had stayed she’d 104 next birthday π
Jul 10, 2018 @ 20:19:48
A lovely story, Willow. This made me smile. π
Jul 10, 2018 @ 18:32:10
Thank you π due
Jul 10, 2018 @ 21:48:15
Beautiful story of crossing that bridge and of the tradition being carried on at the end by a young child.
Jul 11, 2018 @ 07:02:04
Yes I didn’t want to finish with death.π
Jul 10, 2018 @ 21:58:47
A really wonderful telling, Willow π
Jul 11, 2018 @ 07:00:45
Thank you Sue π
Jul 11, 2018 @ 07:01:10
A tip of the hat to Brigadoon πΉ
Jul 11, 2018 @ 15:51:23
I loved that film. Must watch it again one of these days π
Jul 11, 2018 @ 16:03:49
I love it too it always felt special ππ
Jul 11, 2018 @ 17:25:14
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Jul 11, 2018 @ 21:08:24
This is a very enchanting and touching story. Thank you for telling it. π
Jul 12, 2018 @ 07:00:00
Beautiful!
Jul 12, 2018 @ 05:21:35
Thank you π
Jul 13, 2018 @ 12:32:29
You have a gift– very talented!
Jul 14, 2018 @ 21:20:08
Lovely story, Willow. It made me think of Lost Horizon where the character, Maria (played by Olivia Hussey) went to the village eighty years ago when she was twenty. If she were to leave it, she would age and die.
Jul 15, 2018 @ 06:33:15
I remember that it was a film I believe a plane crashed in the Himalayas, and the survivors were rescued by monks? Funnily enough I had not thought of that but as you say there are similarities.ππ
Jul 28, 2018 @ 17:00:07
Lovely, Willow! Goosebumps! xx
Jul 28, 2018 @ 18:13:33
Thank you Jordan , glad you enjoyed it π