Movie challenge

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

Home movies are movies, right? And Ray only has the one home movie that matters, but even Dief got sick of watching it after a year or so. I told him he could have a hundred words, and this is what he said:



I discovered my favorite thing about the kid when we were packing videotapes, and I realized David had never seen my homer. Turned out he'd never seen baseball, period. I went through the whole inning, play by play, til he was as excited as me when I hit that ball.

I looked up and Fraser was watching us, and that's when I knew why I put up with all the lost sleep and screaming.

Because that's my favorite thing about the kid: the way Ben smiled, and shook his head, and sat down to tell him how it really happened.

Comments

[ozsaur.livejournal.com]

I love how a drabble shows so much in such a little space. You never once use the word love and yet that's what this story is all about. Wonderful!

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad the sense of the love in their little family came across.