Written for Charli’s 99-word story. January 30, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about the dishes. It can be the every-single-day activity, a precious collection, or any other interpretation of dishes as objects or activities. Who is stuck with the dishes and why?
Lily pulled on her warmest woolly jumper and stepped into her oversized wellingtons. She always liked her wellies a size bigger, so that she could wear two pairs of her dad’s socks to keep her toes nice and warm.
She trudged through the marshy field to where the thickest rushes grew. With her small scissors she snipped sixteen long rushes. She sat on a tuft of grass and weaved them together to make a St Bridget’s cross.
Her belly rumbled. Her mam always made one of Lily’s favourite dishes on St Brigid’s Day; colcannon. Lily made her way home.
Thank you for reading!
If you enjoy my writing, you might be interested in checking out my debut novel; Secrets in the Babby House.
It’s a story of love, deception, and stolen diaries filled with sins and secrets. Set in a gossipy small town in Ireland at a time when marriage is for keeps and sexuality is repressed, Secrets in the Babby House is a family saga over three decades that starts in 1956.
Gloria McBreen 
Well done. Hard to write a story in 99 words.
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It can be, yes. Thanks Darlene.
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Sounds like a lovely tradition to maintain.
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Yes, Norah. It really is! Thanks for reading.
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My pleasure, Gloria.
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I never realized that colcannon is basically the same thing as Dutch stamppot (which is best served with Dutch sausage).
Great story!
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I’ll have to look up Dutch stamppot because that’s the first time I’ve heard of it. 😃
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