Visual Writing Prompt: The Back Story in Hands

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A Long Ago Song

The next #augustbreak2014 prompt was “Hands,” and specifically your own. My hands have grown stiff and bony with arthritis, but at one time they were quite at home on a piano keyboard. They still itch to play, but neither the old piano nor the old hands make particularly beautiful music. It’s in the past.

Other things show up on hands–manual work, injuries, gardening, oddities in the nail beds–the sort of things Sherlock Holmes would notice and from which he’d create an entire...