4-5-12\u00a0\u00a0 The prompt:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are four points of the compass\u00a0\u00a0 A fifth point\u00a0is possible in some Asian cultures.<\/p>\n
30-minute writing, fiction<\/p>\n
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I headed north from Chelsea, knowing the destination.\u00a0 All of my fears followed me.\u00a0 Some even led.\u00a0 Funny that it seemed like time slowed.\u00a0 The footsteps got smaller. The noise of the traffic faded a bit.\u00a0 I felt yanked along, with Ma shouting in my ear to \u201cKeep up!\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s what it\u2019s like with the homecomings.<\/p>\n
I circled the block, heading east past the mafia restaurant over to Sixth Avenue, then down again, south to 18th<\/sup>, west to Seventh.\u00a0 I had to go in sometime, but remained reluctant.\u00a0 I was tempted to go back and dive down into the subway, but knew there was going to be no easy way out.\u00a0 Maybe just once more around the block.<\/p>\n I surrendered, and went up the stoop, let myself in and climbed the 54 steps to the third floor.\u00a0 Knocked, stepped back a bit when the door flew open and nieces and nephews flew out to greet their favorite Uncle.\u00a0 From the kitchen, I heard Kathy yell out\u00a0 \u201cMa, he\u2019s here!\u201d<\/p>\n Dragging the hoard with me, I stepped back into my mother\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4-5-12\u00a0\u00a0 The prompt:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are four points of the compass\u00a0\u00a0 A fifth point\u00a0is possible in some Asian cultures. 30-minute writing, fiction I headed north from Chelsea, knowing the destination.\u00a0 All of my fears followed me.\u00a0 Some even led.\u00a0 Funny that it seemed like time slowed.\u00a0 The footsteps got smaller. The noise of the traffic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promptedwriting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}