Love can be offered in many ways, in many places …
Each week Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about. This week photo is:
© J Hardy Carroll
I Offered My Heart on Wounded Knees
(an indigenous love story)
“Father,” the dark-haired boy asked, “Is this where mother lived?”
“Yes,” father replied as he limped by the house. “I stood right here throwing pebbles at your mother’s bedroom window, hoping to see her. Your grandfather did not approve of us then.”
Looking up with admiration, his son asked, “And you climbed up on that roof?”
“I did.”
“Then you proposed to her?”
“No, son.” Papa smiled. “Then I fell through the roof breaking both legs. I proposed to her when she visited me at the rehab center. There, I offered my heart on wounded knees.”
Randy Mazie
The Writer's Village 
Oy, what a pun.
Oy, are you right.
Randy
Ha!
Ha, too.
Randy
Haha, very amusing 🙂
I had fun.
Randy
Amusing in more way than one… loved the pun, but also the slapstick of proposing.
It’s a good thing he didn’t have a case of kneasles or roof shingles when he proposed.
Randy
He buried his heart on wounded knees. 🙂 I though it was going to be an Indian story. Ha!!
janet
The family is indian. It is an indigenous love story. Ha!! yourself.
Randy
Yes, for some reason I completely misses that. Ah, well. Some days.
😉
Good one!
Thanks, Randy
Smooth!
as a smoothie?
Randy
…and you get another haha from me! Brilliant!
Click to read my FriFic!
So, does that make 2 ha’s? Or, not to ha’s?
That is the question.
Randy
Wonderful story, crafted from beginning to end. I love it
Thank you. I like crafted things.
Randy
This is rich! Tender and humorous, and somewhat true to life too— or what could be, if you’re clumsy. 😊
What? Clumsy? LOL.
Listen, this guy just climbed up on a roof to profess his love to his sweetheart. Not clumsy. No way.
Misguided, maybe. Poor judgment as to the weight of the roof, yes.
But not clumsy.
Rich, yes. Tender, certainly so – and humorous, definitely.
True to life – nah. I made it all up in my little head.
Thanks for commenting,
Randy
Ouch, that proposal really hurt. Great story.
Wow. Great response. Brought an instant smile to my face.
Thanks,
Randy
So much more dramatic than bended knees. 🙂
Yes, dramatic; but much more pain.
Thanks for commenting. Randy
Dear Randy,
I love it when you puntificate. My favorite sport is playing on words and you do it so well.
Shalom,
Rochelle
a Jew pontificating, I think this current Pope would be okay with it.
as the old Jewish joke goes, good yontiff, pontiff.
Happy New Year, Rochelle.
Randy
Yes, I’ve heard that one…Although what I said was that you were PUNtificating. 😉 Must give us pause to PUNder. Good yontiff to you.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Clever. What a costly proposal, though, leaving him with a lifelong limp!
All the best
Penny
I wondered how many of the readers noticed that I had slipped the word “limp”into that second paragraph. Good eyes.
Yes, it was very costly. In fact, you could almost say he could’ve not had a leg to stand on in that proposal. Argh.
Randy
Nice play on the words Wounded Knee!
Thanks, Randy
Oh, I noticed the limp…. And was happy to go back and say, “Ha!” What a fun tale you have told.
Thanks.
Randy
Great story. Nicely done.
Thanks. I enjoyed your stopping by.
Randy
Oh my…THAT was funny!
😉
Randy
Such a great tale. I loved that change in the father’s tone of voice when he revealed the truth. So good.
Thank you.
Randy
awe – thanks for the heart tug!
hope it was just a little ache, and not a real pull. 😉
Randy
the little one… 🙂 and a good one