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Michelle Swisz

My reply to this Drabble is, "Yes, that's it, exactly; this is confusion."

Could This Be Love? by Heather Schaefer In Joseph's eyes there was something she understood. Needed instinctively. Sarah knew she could not afford to let go. Ignorant that she hadn't already lost her own sight dreadfully, she attributed all perception to him from the first moment she felt his gaze. His eyes were a beacon and a ship. Had he arrived in this luminous form to spirit her away from the blackened shores? To see Love? She could not comprehend that in her own eyes there was another light, guiding him toward the same hope. Their memories both still harbored others who'd tried to gouge it out.

Thanks to Alison Hawke for turning her attention back to Drabble to find the answer to a reader's question -- and thanks, too, for the Drabbles, questions and comments during the month.

For a person who likes to look at what things may mean, I don't do enough looking first before I get myself into the things I do. I guess I get confused at all the possibilities, so I sometimes just go with "my feelings."

So, as a result, I've made some interesting life choices since I've become newly single, and some of them now call for a degree of extrication. Some of these decisions were made incrementally, without realizing what the cumulative effect might be. Kind of like starting smoking -- no one can realize when they start smoking what the nature of being a smoker really is. Someone should write a story -- a Drabble on the ongoing reality of what being a smoker is, feeling unable to quit, perhaps having tried many times and in many different ways, with no escape whatever in sight.

For November, let's have two themes. For those who are smokers, or have been, like me (my own last cigarette was smoked in 1994): the theme of Smoking, and in particular, the idea (maybe just implied) of extrication from it. For people who've never smoked: the general theme of Extrication, from whatever decision one can imagine needing to get oneself out of. Choose either a 100-word single Drabble, or a 200-word Double.

October is set for the theme of Gratitude.

Here are the guidelines to check once more before writing. Questions and comments are, as always, most welcome. See you again next month.

Michelle