PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot
Servant
I was once grains of silica blanketing shores and lakebeds, a servant to feet, fins, and flora. You capture me unaware. Screened under your watchful eyes, I finally meet your demanding requirements.
Crucibled with soda and lime, you stoke my passion with seventeen-hundred-degree Celcius flames until I’m an amorphous solid, horizontally framed and ready to serve, still at your whim.
You grasp and stoke me, twist me to your will until I shine, my facets mesmerizing your assessing gaze.
Satisfied, you put me on a shelf — until I am sold, to sustain the gaze of yet another admirer.
[100 words]
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is the host of Friday Fictioneers.
Tao Talk 
Amazing what you’ve done in 100 words, Lisa. You had me at “a servant to feet, fins, and flora. “
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:) Thanks, Judy. Having lived near Lake MI all my life, sand and I are well-acquainted. I also love art glass.
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Was that a photo you were given to write about or a photo you took?
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It’s Friday Fictioneers prompt photo. We all write 100-word stories to that image.
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I thought so but whenI went to her blog I didn’t see the photo.
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Strange, but then WP is a strange duck these days.
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Great writing, I right enjoyed it, I drifted across many time eras fascinating
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Michael thanks, glad you enjoyed the story.
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The feeling I get from this is powerlessness. The glass perhaps is a metaphor
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Good call, Neil. The sand is what it is and would prefer to be left to do what sand does, but alas its utilitarian and aesthetic aspects are being exploited without its consent.
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So beautifully described the process of creating this Li
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Sadje, thank you very much.
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You’re always welcome
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Transformation–it’s all around us. (K)
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For sure. Beautiful piece of art glass.
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I didn’t see the picture when I read it at first…I thought…this might be rated R lol… Thats really good Lisa.
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Max, I’m glad you got the double entendre :)
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Oh yes!
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Wow! Who knew sand could be to pithy? Read your comment through a second time. So brilliant!
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Nancy, thanks much. Despite its nature and its non-resistance, the end product is magnificently beautiful.
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That’s a beautifully sad POV. Although I like to believe the Creative principle dwells in everything and changes form from time to time. Even the food we eat might not want to be eaten but remain on plants or meadows.
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Good points, Joy. Thanks for reading and your thoughtful comment.
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Dear Lisa,
Fascinating POV. Glass fascinates me to begin with, and you’ve put a whole new spin on it. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Rochelle, thanks much :)
Shalom,
Lisa
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I love this, Lisa. One of the activities we offer our customers is a chance at working with glass in an atelier. I also thought of the movie “Sweet Home Alabama” for the glass objects they create with lightening.
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Dale, that’s fabulous. I have watched “Blown Away,” a tv show competition between glass artists. Haven’t seen that movie but sounds like maybe I should.
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It is. I’ve heard of that show!
As for the movie, it’s a rom-com with the very handsome Josh Luca (and his dreamy eyes and voice that he could read the phonebook to me with) and Reese Witherspoon and the not-too-shabby Patrick Dempsey.
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If you don’t mind my asking, what is your line of work and who are your customers?
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I don’t mind at all. I work for a tourism company a DMC (Destination Management Company). We specialise in culinary tours, city tours and shore excursions for cruise ships.
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Oh wow, sounds like a fun job and I can see you being really good at it. I bet you’ve learned a lot about your city in the process also?
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It is getting more and more fun, the more I learn. And yes, I have taken such a huge interest in getting to know Montreal omre and more.
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A great piece articulating the feelings of an inanimate object with human qualities. Of course I wonder; are they watching us?
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Thank you for reading and your comment, Someone. Indeed!
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What a great idea to use the pov of sand/glass. I love the richness of your language in this. You’ve described the creation of a piece of glass so beautifully. And such a poignant ending.
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Margaret, I love your praise :::blushing::: Thank you.
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That last line – ‘to be sold’ – is sad, and made me replace ‘servant’ with ‘slave’.
Liz
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For sure, Liz. Humans believe they own the planet and can do with it what they will. Our arrogance will be the end of us :( Thank you for reading and commenting.
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Beautiful writing. Not sorry for the beautiful glass creations though. I’ve been to one of these manufacturies and could watch the craftsmen/artists make wonderful spheres. I had a set of wine glasses from there but by now they’re broken, the shards ground to… sand. :)
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Gabi, I love art glass and any other kind of glass, really :) I watched a netflix series, “Blown Away” that brings glass artists from around the world to compete for prizes including residency in glass making institutes. I envy you being able to visit one of those places and watch them in action in real life. There was a local guy here many moons ago that I watched but he was a one man operation so not a lot of output. Very cool you bought some beautiful glass from the place you went to, but sorry it’s turned back to “dust” (the dust of glass anyway) ;)
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Beautiful writing, Lisa. Wonderful POV. I felt the sadness of the sand serving a purpose it did not choose.
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Hmm, by the way, it’s me…Brenda.
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Ah, Brenda :) Thanks again.
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Thank you, Someone, and appreciate your thoughtful and empathetic comment.
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I love glass, you have described the creation of this piece beautifully!
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Thanks much, Dawn :)
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Beautifully written piece! I loved the POV, your choice of words, the layers, the flow…
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Angela, many thanks :)
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Wow! What a nice piece this is!
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R.M., thanks much!
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Beautiful breakdown if the life cycle of glass. Fabulous descriptions here
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Thank you :)
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