Twelvetide Drabbles 2020 - DAY EIGHT

Good morning Twelvetide Drabblers! 

Welcome to DAY EIGHT of the 6th Annual Twelvetide Drabbles Challenge. We hope you have some safe and festive plans to ring out the dumpster fire of 2020 and ring in the new year of 2021 with (dare we hope?) the promise of some just change to come. 

Daily Stats

Here are the challenge numbers as of 9pm EST on Wednesday, December 30th ... We've broken $500! Awesome work everyone. *tosses glitter everywhere*

Amount pledged per work: $7.50
Creators: 13
Works posted: 67
Total raised: $502.50

Spotlight Work

Today we welcomed a new creator! foxjar brought us a 300-word triple drabble titled "Fox and the Fawn" for the Fire Emblem fandom. (Please do pay attention to the tags if you click through.)

Today's Prompt & Bonus Inspiration

Your prompt for Thursday, December 31st is: 
 

Under the Lemon Tree
BY MARSHA DE LA O

Not rain, but fine mist
falls from my lemon tree,
a balm of droplets in green shadow.

Six years now my mother gone to earth.
This dew, light as footsteps of the dead.
She often walked out here, craned her neck,
considered the fruit, hundreds of globes
in their leathery hides, figuring on
custard and pudding, meringue and
hollandaise.

But her plans didn't work out.

The tree goes on unceasingly—lemons fall
and fold into earth and begin again—
me, I come here as a salve against heat,
come to languish, to let the soft bursts—
essence of citrus, summer's distillate—
drift into my face and settle. Water and gold
brew in the quiet deeps at the far end
of the season. Leaves swallow the body
of light and the breath of water brims over.

My hands cup each other the way hers did.


Image: An interior showing a lemon yellow wall, a white table/desk with a wooden chair, a lamp, and a framed piece of art. 


Image: Lemon macarons on a white display dish.


Image: A vintage motor bike painted lemon yellow.

Lemon verbena is a lovely herb to use in tea, ice cream, or marinade. 

Happy creating!
Elizajane