Pieces Of My Heart

In response to Rochelle Wisoff’s Friday Fictioneers

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Prompt: Write a fiction in 100 words.

I stood at the top of the stairwell, hemmed in by brick, as if the world had narrowed to one cold passage.

The steps were slick with ice, each one a reminder that living is mostly careful descent. Halfway down, I noticed it – an evergreen ornament, bent under snow, lights blinking stubbornly. It looked foolish and brave. I brushed the needles clean, straightened the droop, and felt my fingers burn.

A stranger passed, then a child, who pointed and smiled as if it were a miracle. The street below remained loud and indifferent. Yet, something in me softened, meaning is made, not found.

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Written for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ Friday Fictioneers prompt.

The photo appears to be looking up at a cathedral ceiling with inset stained glass windows. Below the windows looks like a walkway with arched openings.

The child entered the stone rotunda to escape the rain and, without knowing why, looked up. Above, a great dome rested on columns shaped by patient hands, holding the sky in place. Light poured through small stained windows, breaking into color, teaching that truth arrives in fragments.

In the quiet middle of looking, the child understood – the stone did not imprison the heavens, it pointed beyond them. When the rain ended and the child stepped outside, the world felt wider.

What once seemed like limits had become horizons, and faith was no longer a ceiling, but an invitation to keep looking upward.

© Rohini 2009–2025.
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No part of this content may be copied, reproduced, distributed, displayed, or used in any form without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.

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