Visual Writing Prompt: The Malapropian Memory

From Long Ago

“Memory” was the twenty-fourth #augustbreak2014 prompt, and it took me several hours to narrow down what to take a picture of, since so much of what I have is from the past in one way or another. I think that happens to a lot of people by the time they’re fifty, and I’m well past that point.

One of the objects in my bookcases is this large spiny murex, which reminds me of warm seas and the sounds of the waves. It’s native to the South Pacific, I think, but purchased for me in a sh...