Rekindling an old Hobby

I've been out of the writing game for some time and have recently rekindle my passion for it.

I'm loving the writing prompts and challenges! Great way to tickle the imagination!

Here's a recent quick story I wrote to play with some text for my novel.

"Empty Nest"

“Empty Nest” is a term used to describe a home, once full of love and family traditions, which now stands quiet and vacant. It’s a home whose children have grown and moved on to build their own nests leaving parents with decades of memories and a deep void in their lives. Sure, the optimists would say that it’s a new chapter for parents to start by reigniting the passions they pushed to the side while raising their family, but it is also a time of sadness, fear and worry. Have the children, now adults, learned everything they needed to be successful and happy in life? Time will tell and parents will worry. Bless them, they will worry, and their children will be all the better for it.

Empty nests come in a variety of flavors. Some are sweet with parents who are relieved to see their babies grow up and finally start their own lives. Others are salty with parents who cling to every moment in denial that this is the natural order of things. Some are bitter and sour. These are the homes that were never filled. The homes whose halls never echoed with the sounds of babies crying, or children laughing. Homes in which parents never saw their children born. Parents who tried and tried, but only succeeded in finding sadness and heartbreak. That emptiness is sour indeed.

-Olivia Lee