“A hundred miles away, or perhaps next door – the distance does not matter”, he smiles as he whispered to himself. His mother used to say this about love.
“When the time comes, love will walk into your life and take you by surprise”, she would yell from the kitchen, shaking her head at his sulking frame.
He wished to hear her one more time, one last time before he left the house forever. Tomorrow, he would be in a new city, a new country with the love of his life. She used to be his next-door neighbor then, and years later he found her, waiting for a lover from miles away
Prompt: Distance @ Six Sentence Story
Happy New Year, Pratibha!
What a beautifully written Six. An uplifting message for all of us moving forward into this new year.
(I hope you’ll come over to Girlie and link your Six π )
Thank you !
I will sure link this week and hope be a regular again.
This is a great SSS! It is interesting how many times this happens, where people went to the same school, or lived in the same neighborhood but never had any romantic interests about a certain person until many years later when they “found” each other again.
It’s such a “fate” thing to happen. π
It is interesting to hear stories as this where people who have grown up near one another don’t “find” each other until many years later. Excellent SSS.
Thanks Patricia.
Glad you liked this.
What a sweet tale of finding love and remembering his mother with love.
Thank you for the kind words π
Some forms of affection are best expressed from a distance. I like how they kept missing each other.
And finally found their way back π
A romantic Six, showing truth in how all those old sayings about love travelling great distances, across cities and even great oceans, can bring two people together in harmony.
Taking such a journey must be love.
Wonderful six sentence story. So glad you’re here.