From time to time, ideas come to me...lines, snippets of dialogue, even whole scenes...that have nothing to do with whatever I'm working on at the time. Sometimes these random writings are incorporated into full-blown pieces...and sometimes they remain as orphans, tantalizing teasers from the fickle muse that have no home.
This then is one of the orphans which has been languishing in a file since it was born.
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Joshua smiled shyly, the leathery creases in his face softening into tender curves and soft crevices, and waited for the next move to be made. The old man’s courtly manner, masculine and awkward, touched Kathy in ways that she was at a loss to even try to explain in the limited universe of spoken words.
Joshua was a graceful bear of man, tall and burly, hirsute and stoic, who was comfortable with the years that he spent on Earth. Sixty-two summers ain’t that many, he would say with soft conviction. Coyness not being a companion of his, he meant that totally without irony. He had made more than his share of mistakes…what man who was truly living could say that he had not?…but he learned from the ones he could and made his peace with the ones he could not and lived his life as the best man he could be.
Kathy was enormously charmed and the gulf of years between her age and his faded into meaninglessness without her consciously realizing it.
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