Picture of an Elderly
Lady Prompt

Lyons Library Writing
Group – Aug. 20, 2009

James Gregory Maynard

She suddenly stops and looks quizzically at the unfamiliar
flowers she holds in her right hand.
Glancing down, she sees that she has her coat on and her purse, and
wonders why?

There is no sense of anxiety but rather a sort of dull foggy
understanding that she has gone out.
Where she has been is unknown and where she is going are not even
considered.

Slowly, she surveys her unfamiliar surroundings but is
unable to ask, much less answer the question, “Where am I.”  Usually such uncertainty would cause her
fear but the inability for her to comprehend her situation renders her
stupefied.  Instead, she simply
stares forward, not hearing, not feeling, not seeing, anything; she’s there, but nowhere.

The Boss Prompt

Short in stature he walks throughout the plant standing tall
in his posture.  Dressed in his
usual starched white shirt and a fashionable bow tie he stops periodically to
quiz a worker here and there about his or her work.  Although the employees do not fear him,
they do respect him.

No detail of the operation goes unseen, or is unknown to
him.  His deep whisky voice commands
ones attention and his glare anxiety.
The sight of him creates a comfort that all will be fine, but his
passing by relaxes the atmosphere.