A/N: The beginning of a series of challenges I've set to myself, to try and stretch my writing. I've taken the names of shades of paint and I'm using them as titles. I'm writing to prompts. The paint names are Taste of Summer, Gypsy Wind, Frost Kiss, Icing Rose, and Wishful Thinking. As I'm always collecting new paint names, the list may grow. Here's the first one.
Icing Rose
So fragile.
He lay there, arms to the sky, a small smile on his tiny face, waiting to be picked up. He depended on someone else for everything… how did that feel?
So soft.
Baby skin, smooth and soft. He gurgled and waited patiently (most of the time patiently) to be held, cared for.
So delicate.
How easy it would be to blot this little life out, squish it, wipe it off the page of existence, a minor character whose entrance had only been made a few sentences before.
So fragile, so soft, so delicate, like an icing rose.
"Shhh… Don't cry Aaron…Don't cry…Mum's here."
A/N: 105 words I believe. There will be more (and if anyone knows any good paint shade names, I'm up for it!). Please review, and thanks so much for reading.
