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The stones gleamed a golden beauty beneath the rain from the downspout that polished the ordinary dull rocks to shining jewels. The water ran over her fingers, reflecting the sun that shone through the clouds. The storm light made the leaves bright green and the pebbles precious jewels, it made the air heavy and fragrant with promised fertility and possible death. The sunlight shone green, tornado-green, though the clouds were only light. Cars drove past on the street, heading home as soon as possible. On the edges of town, wind blew through the wheat fields.


Inspiration: "Zen In The Art of Writing." I don't think this approach to memory-mining works for me. Maybe I need to do the linked word-groups thing. Very odd, but seems like an approach worth attempting. So--ah, yes. I loved storm weather as a little girl, and my favorite thing was to be out in it, staring out how it transformed ordinary pebbles. Well, not strictly ordinary. My mother collected granite and quartz and other interesting-looking rocks, possibly as part of the same thing that made her interested in gravestones.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Maybe high potential? Storms transforming nature/beauty. There's something there. But I'm also looking harder for something because of the source. Hrm. I mean, really, there's something in anything.
The storm postcards started arriving in her mailbox in winter. It was a little amusing then; somebody was sending her mail! How pleasant! But then storm season got closer and it became less entertaining. Was somebody trying to threaten her? Did that make any sense? How could somebody threaten her with storms, that were surely beyond the ability of any person to control. Or was it a warning, saying that she should leave her comfortable Louisiana home and go inland, far from the ability of any storm to reach her. She didn't think that it might have been the equivalent of a personals ad--how should she? She'd signed up for a site or two, yes, that's what one did when one reached a certain age and was still alone, and more than that, wanted not to be. She didn't know what--

Inspiration: A combination of "Another Post Card With Chimpanzees" and the news about tropical storm Gustaf.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: I thought this was going to be boring and then it became a personals ad response and *that* was interesting.

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