TheBanyanTree: Walking to the 7-11 - a WIP

[Monique Colver]

Thank you Jim! I'm considering more like this, or more of this. There's a
message in there that I want to say. That, or I just like to write stories.
And they say to write what you know, right? I know this.


Monique Colver
Colver Business Solutions
monique at colverbusinesssolutions.com
www.colverbusinesssolutions.com
(425) 772-6218



On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Jim Miller <jim at maze.cc> wrote:

> Monique,
>
> This was incredible writing. Most would see it as sad and fail to see the
> beauty and poetry of the words. I expect that this was your life, and it
> touches me to think that, yet in our youth most of us were naive about our
> circumstances. If this was a complete or partial creation, it was
> fantastic.
>
> Your words always speak beyond their content. You never fail us. For me,
> this story stirred my depths. The pictures painted were poignant and vivid.
> I felt what you must feel. Thank you for sharing with us.
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Monique Colver
> <monique.colver at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > At night sometimes I’d walk to the 7-11, maybe a mile, maybe a two, down
> > the dark highway. I had to walk. We only had one car, and if he wasn’t
> > home, which was common, I had to walk, or stay home alone.
>