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Challenge of the Month II
The Gift. Write the story of a gift, passed from one hand to another. Perhaps it is a heart-warming gesture of kindness and goodwill. Or perhaps it is something more foreboding, more sinister. Perhaps it is a simple, material object. Or perhaps it is something more amorphous, more esoteric. Whatever it is, it must be a gift. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
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Crimsonrose

Pebble.

I stood alone gazing at the sea,

Lost amid a storm of thoughts.

Looking afar, the world so hazy,

Out of nowhere there came you.

My fingers so cold before;

Now warmed by your heat,

You lifted a pebble by my feet.

So minute so unworthy,

Placed it in my palm,

Telling me to keep calm,

As I was no longer alone.

Your presence besides me,

As solid as that stone,

A gift I had never known.