Each week I choose one of the daily winners and feature it as the One-Minute Writing of the Week. This is for the week of 2/14-2/20.
One-Minute Writing of the Week:Writer: Leatherdykeuk (Friday's's winner)Prompt: Friday Fiction: Fence. Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt "Fence."
The Swordwoman's Garden
In her garden, separating the firepit
from the vegetable plot (under construction)
where she grew her cabbages and potatoes,
she built a fence.
And she being she, she made it a piece of art
and scoured the shed for useful things
and the local tip, though not the official one
but the one the locals used.
The posts were made of tree trunks
and range from three inched thick to almost a foot
(though on top of that she cemented a gargoyle
like a finial).
Between the posts she fastened top and bottom rails
of old iron bars and remnants of railings
from when they bulldozed the allotments
next to the cemetery.
The space she filled in with anything she could weld
(and she learned to weld quite quickly)
bicycle wheels, garden forks, bits of cutlery
which clattered in the breeze.
But pride of place (for she was fond of puns)
was a dozen authentic combat swords –
a longsword, a side sword and several rapiers –
from her days of fencing.
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