“It’s so cold!” Marybeth shivered by the fireplace.
“This ain’t nothing.” Grandma Hattie’s wizened cheeks glistened in the flickering light. “1697, the year I turned twelve, winter commenced mid-November and by the last of March there was no sign of spring. The good Christians of Leonardtown blamed my teacher and friend Moll Dyer.”
“You knew her?”
“To this day I see them with their torches and tankards hollering, ‘witch! witch!’ as they set her hut ablaze.”
“They say she put a hex on the village, Grandma.”
“If anyone cursed them it was their precious God for slaying an innocent lamb.”
As always, writers are encouraged to be as innovative as possible with the prompt and 100 word constraints.
Henry David Thoreau said it best.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
THE CHALLENGE:
Write a one hundred word story that has a beginning, middle and end. (No one will be ostracized for going a few words over the count.)
THE KEY:
Make every word count.
THE RULES:
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Should someone have severe or hostile differences of opinion with another person it’s my hope that the involved parties would settle their disputes in private.
The day Eleanor entered the convent her parents wept. No amount of pleading would change her mind.
“It’s my calling to live my life for Him.”
With bridal joy, she hid her cropped auburn hair under coif and veil and pledged her troth to God until death.
Years passed. Her faith waned and the church, once her safe haven, became a stone-walled Purgatory.
Her reflection’s faded brown eyes scrutinized her from the cracked mirror. Headpiece abandoned and threadbare habit a crumpled heap on the floor, she smiled at her silver-gray locks.
My story follows the photo and link tool. I enjoy honest comments and relish constructive criticism. 
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 