It is time for Friday Fictioneers again. This week my story is going out ahead of time! Even I cannot believe it.

Let me encourage you to read my story and then to hop on over to Rochelle’s page and follow the little blue frog to lots of other stories. Here is our prompt for the week

PHOTO PROMPT – © Connie Gayer …(Mrs. Russell)

All These Dusty Miles

by JE Lillie

“Just a little further.” Momma says.

Those words are her mantra. I know she is frightened, so I will not complain even though my feet bleed and my shoulders ache with the weight of the pack.

“She knows the way” I say under my breath. Still she has never walked the distance. We were city dwellers. Then the bombs fell, the soldiers came and we ran with nothing but these bags slung from our shoulders and the clothes on our backs.

“We are here!” Momma says.

The ocean opens before me. Suddenly I wish to go back to the desert.