Do you remember where you were the day the red god fell? Like a cannon shot from the heavens it was, and I was only six. Ma was bouncing me off her knee. She stopped that quick smart. A lot of things stopped that day. My childhood for one.
I couldn’t possibly comprehend all that this singular moment of deity impacting earth would take from me, but I’d soon come to. I’d learn that suddenly pa was gone, that I’d have to ‘step up’ and be ‘the man of the household’.
There would be no more pony rides for me.
by TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2017
unbolt me 
Are you in the next series of The Colony? Just finished binge watching it on Netflix and then read this Tony. Nothing to do with those naughty nuns I hope 🙂
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I am going to have to check that out. I’ve heard good things about it! 😛
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It starts slow Tony but picks up. I enjoyed it.
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Thanks for the recommendation, Davy! 😀
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Great story. That last line hits hard and drives the message home – love it. Well done.
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Thank you very much, Debbie! 🙂
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Is this autobiographical? 😥
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No, thank goodness. My father is alive and well, so I’m very grateful for that! 😀
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Oh, I’m so glad. So we’re travelling to Egypt maybe? I can be a little slow 🙂
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Egypt?! Wow! Very cool! 😀
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Well, I wondered about the Egyptian god Keb, and being an earth god, made me think of red soil, “red god”…but maybe I need to google some stuff, I might have that all wrong… Hehe
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Well, I have to give you props for looking into it! A lot of people wouldn’t! 😛
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Haha thanks!
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Excellent Tony.
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Thank you, Mark. 🙂
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I thought you lost your father?
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Do you mean me, or the character in the story? 😛
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Sorry I got so captivated, that I thought it was real!
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Well, I must simply take that as a compliment! I must be doing something right then! Thanks! 😀
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Yes you wrote in such a way that it makes a fool out of me.
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Fool? No, you don’t seem like a fool at all, my friend. 🙂
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Thanks for making me comfortable
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That is the story of many people’s lives. Childhood taken too soon.
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Alas, it’s so very true for far too many, isn’t it?
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And even though, our babies beg to be grown up, unaware of the toil that can come along with. You try to tell them not to rush, but… you know they don’t listen. Do any of us?
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I’m afraid we as a species don’t learn our lessons very well, so I completely agree!
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Wow, you really packed a lot of emotion and triggered some curiosity with those 100 words! Reading this definitely makes a person want to read more and find out more about what happened and what is going to happen. Well done, sir! 😀
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Why, thank you, ma’am! As we like to say around these here parts: “Yer blood’s worth bottlin’!” 😛
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Haha, I’ve never heard that saying before! I’ll have to remember that one! 😉 And you are most welcome!
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When I first heard my father say this, I was like, “Are you sure this isn’t something vampires say?” Ha ha! 😛
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Your thoughts heart-wrenching triggered my own similar memory, but we have overcome, yes?
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We can certainly try. That’s within our reach, yes? 😀
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I like what you tell, and the way you tell it, but I have no idea about what event you are speaking
So sorry!… Could you, please, clarify it to me?
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Ah, but I’m choosing to leave that event unspecified. It’s a bit mysterious, it is. 😉
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Oh! OK 🙂 I thought it was something well known, with public impact, that I just couldn’t identify.
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No no no, my friend. It’s purposefully vague, so you were correct in identifying this. 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 And Big thanks for being kind with me ✨✨
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Wow Toni, lots being said with just a few lines. I LOVED it!
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It’s fun trying to contain everything you want to say in so few words, isn’t it? 😀
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It’s a trap, it’s addictive. It can’t be healthy 🙂
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Hee hee! Run for the hills! 😛
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