If it had not rained, she would have been picking the last of the blackberries, saying goodbye to the summer, the smell of dried grass, burnished evenings of diminished twilight.
But it had rained and she spent the day sitting next to the door of the tule house, watching the water drip from the oak branches and creep under the few fallen leaves not swept from the hard ground outside.
PROMPT:
Make a list, starting each line with “if…” You can write a list poem/story/essay, or use a line from your list to prompt more writing.
Example: “If my grandmother hadn’t fallen that afternoon” from “If,” a two-page essay of single lines from Dear Damage by Ashley Marie Farmer.