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The Price
Line practice for the price.
| Line before | Your line |
|---|---|
| What line comes after: "And the mother had barely spoken the words when her eyes closed, her head dropped, and she fell asleep." | She dreamt of a bright and golden place, filled with tall flowers of all sorts- a summer day. |
| What line comes after the mother singing Greensleeves to night? | And so the mother sang every song that she knew, and if anyone in the little village had looked at the sky that night- |
| What line comes after- "She came at last to an ancient forest of fir trees, draped with snow and icicles. | But deaths tracks were everywhere in the snow. |
| What line comes after: And she embraced the thornbush. his thorns pierced her skin, and great drops of her blood fell upon the snow. | And though it painted her and cut her, she held the thornbush tightly. |
| What line comes after : and she held, and she held, and where her warmed blood fell upon the cold earth the ground.. | Thawed |
| What line comes after : There was no way across,- it must be near dawn there must be a way. So she knelt and began .. | To drink. |
| What line comes after: . you will not drink me .Do you know how many of your kind I have swallowed? slip beneath my waters and I will show them to you. | But the mother kept drinking. |
| What line comes after: and with that thought the mother knelt and wept, and wept, and wept, and her eyes two pearls dropped into the lake and were lost within its waters. | But the lake was true to its word and gathered the woman in its waves. |
| What line comes after: You said you would help me- I did and I am true to my word, come with me. | And the mother, now old and blind, came at last to the greenhouse of death. |
| What line comes after: Let me show you what you hold in your hands, let me show you this life. And though the woman no longer had eyes.. | She Saw |
| first part of the Paragraph after (He was a boy about the same age as her daughter.) | His whole life stretched before her-all at once. Every moment, every year, every decade, every second. |
| Second part of the paragraph . ( after every second.) | His first steps holding on to his mothers hands. the taste of sweet cherries, his fingers stained purple. The warm summer breeze on his face in a field thick with butterflies. A bee sting at six years old. A broken arm at nine when he falls from a tree. |
| Third part of the paragraph( after a broken arm at nine.) | As a young man his heart flutters, he looks into a girls eyes. his first kiss under a moon so bright it might be a diamond. He proposes. Drops the ring into a stream, wades in to fish it our, the water as cold as ice. |
| FOurth part of the paragraph ( after the water is cold as ice. ) | The whole town as his wedding, dancing until dawn, then the birth of his first son, a second, a daughter. Life goes faster, the time goes quicker. A life in town- a career as an innkeeper. |
| Fifth part of the paragraph ( after a career as an innkeeper) | He's a blessing it all who meet him - kind and strong. A grandchild on the way, how is he old enough to have a grandchild. Strangers gather from around the world at his inn . the songs they sing by the fire. |
| Sixth part of the paragraph ( after the songs they sing by the fire. ) | The love in his wife's eyes. a look in the mirror- who is this old man. The lines on his face from a life of laughter and joy. a second grandchild, a third, a fourth . a firth. Sixty years, seventy, eighty. The sun comes up, the sun comes up ( one more) |
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