Author Challenge 29 : Mom's the word

Reflections: My mother's last gift

Mothers in the spotlight

Mothers.

They come in all shapes and sizes, in all temperments and attitudes, with desires all their own and wishes for the world. They may be human and non-human, too. They can be warm as sunshine and as cold as ice, as soft as silk and as hard as stone, as delicate as a flower and as tough as nails. Mothers can be loving and giving or critical and selfish. Some are cuddlers and some are coddlers. Some push you to be the best you can be and some just push you over the edge. Some are quiet and love unconditionally and others are domineering and show their displeasure when you don’t live up to her ideal.

We all have a mother and some have more than one. There are open adoptions now so kids could have two mothers and then there’s the foster mom and the daycare worker who acts like mommy to a dozen kids at a time. There’s the grandmother or aunt who took over mom duties when the “real” mother no longer could for whatever reason. There’s the big sister or cousin who always acted like a bossy mother. There’s the motherly lady down the street who always had time for a bit of tea and sympathy and maybe even a home-baked cookie for a “lost lamb”.

Yes, mothers are human with all the frailties of humans. We love them, we revere them, we cherish them. We miss them when they go away. We step away when they start to smother us and we go to them when all else fails.  We revile them too. We may even hate them, but still they are our mothers and so…Mom’s the word.

In Author Challenge 29: Mom’s the word…and mother, mum, mama, madre, mommy and ma. The entry can be fiction or non-fiction, fact based or fantasy. It can be based on the best mother you’ve ever know or the one who ruined your life. You can tell us how to be a good mother, how to become one or how to avoid becoming one. As always, your imagination is the limit.

• ·         Ah yes, word limit is upped a bit to 600 words ~650 by Helium’s faulty count.

• ·         Alistair, the winner of the last challenge, needs to provide the two required words. This is what he came up with:  Preciosity and Nonplussed

• ·         Also we ask the entry to include any of the mother words or close affiliates (mum, mommy, mama, madre, mami, ma or mom)

So, with all that, this starts our Author’s Challenge 29: Mom’s the word. Good luck to all!

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