Friday Writings #59: Wheels

 

Hello, Word Artists and Admirers! I hope your 2023 has started off well. Things are a little complicated at the Driks homestead. On New Year's Eve, our corgi, Kit, was unable to use his back left leg at all (his back right leg wasn’t all that much better). We were terrified about what this meant for his future. The little guy is 12-ish, 13-ish (he’s a rescue, so we aren’t sure). Either way, that’s a pretty venerable age for a corgi.

Almost two weeks later, the good news is that Kit is a stubborn little guy. He’s gotten much better control of his basic functions and he’s even stood up and taken a couple of steps. The bad news is that he’s a stubborn little guy. He isn’t a fan of being picked up and carried, but he prefers that to the rear harness we’re trying to get him used to. As for the wheelchair I built him… he’ll go near it if I shmear peanut butter on one of the rails, but Does Not like wearing it (I’m hoping more peanut butter training will help). But today was the first day Kit realized he could move fairly quickly in his harness, so we are all hopeful that he’ll continue to get better.

So in honor of Kit and the wheelchair he is side-eyeing as I type, this week’s optional prompt is wheels. Use the word wheels or wheel somewhere in your piece. As always, I’m taking poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction. But I’m only taking one piece per person and, please keep those pieces to 369 words or fewer.

Next week Rosemary will ask us to write about 'the visitor' – whatever that may suggest.