This week’s challenge? A 150
word story (+/- 10 words) springing forth from the photo prompt and include a
woman.
She Served Wisdom
She loved the smell of proper gentlemen - all famous, full
of themselves and reputation; cleaned and bathed not like most folks. Tobacco
smoke bolstered their strength and the resolve of their discussion. Politics,
King George, and money fueled their fire.
“Excuse me are they ready for tea?”
The doorman rudely answered, “Woman we have no time for you!”
“Let me tell you something, Mr. High Breeches, you may think
you’re high and mighty but my Creator made me same as He made you. We’re all
equal in God’s eyes.”
The men’s applause for her words ensued into an excited discussion.
She left them as others began to arrive.
Afterwards, picking up parchment, discarded and scattered, an
unusual signature caught her eye – Button Gwinnett.
She thought, “Strange name but I never heard of him. Maybe I’ll
keep this and see if all this fuss amounts to anything.”
She didn't see how they had used her words. Like tea, wisdom is often served to wise men.
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