Day 6: One Minute Writer's Prompt

So today, while I was searching for some journal-y prompts, I found this awesome blog called The One-Minute Writer.  Since I couldn't really think of anything to write today, I used this prompt to write a short story.  I took five minutes for it.

"Day of Stones"

I polished the stone on the inside of my hoodie sleeve. It was a plain stone, gray and flat. Just like all the rest of the rocks here on the river bank.

I skipped it across the water – plink plink plink. Three skips, just like my dad showed me how to when I was small. He had held my arm out and showed me how to move it just right. “You want to skim it across the water, son. Skim it.”

“Like skim milk?”

My father had laughed and ruffled my hair. “No, like skimming across the water. If you do it right, the stone will just glide across the surface.”

My dad loved to skip the stones across the river. Too bad that a stone was the only thing that represented him now. The stone that had his name on it.

I looked up to the empty, gray sky.

My father would have loved a day like today.

It was a day of stones.

I like it, sort of.  It's not the worst thing I've written.  Until tomorrow!