Fair Lydia
A fiction drabble/character study
Lydia swam through life as a swan — Beautiful? Perhaps. Where one sees beauty another sees a foul fowl after all.
Strong? Most definitely. An awe-inducing kind of strength.
Lydia swam through life as a swan — terrible power and a honking, hissing, defense mechanism.
Beautiful? Perhaps, perhaps.
Oh Lydia, oh Lydia.
Her long neck was a pre-Raphaelite fever dream. Her grace masked her muscular power — like a dancer, born to be a prima ballerina; never quite getting there.
She could strike with a swan’s own ferocious precision.
That power has a beauty of its own.
Fair, fair, Lydia.
(…This one’s from the universe, please don’t blame me — I’m just the writer! Lol.)
Prompt from the creative Dr. Casey Lawrence
Fair Monday
Physical attractiveness is important to many cultures, but what it means to be ‘beautiful’ also differs between time periods, cultures, and even small communities, like within certain professions.
Write a character study or short story about an individual whose outward beauty conceals hidden depths. Explore how their…
