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Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga  

Once in a land far away there was a farmer. His most treasured possession was a fine stallion. Oh, said the neighbors: what good fortune! Perhaps, said the farmer.

One night the stallion ran off in a storm. Oh no, said the neighbors, what a disaster. Perhaps, said the farmer.

But after some time the stallion came back and following him a mare and a pony. Oh, said the neighbors: what good fortune! You had no horses and now you have 3! Perhaps, said the farmer.        

One day the farmer’s son rode off on the mare, fell and badly broke his leg. Neighbors found him, carried him home and said, Oh no, what a disaster. Perhaps, said the farmer.

As the son was in bed with his broken leg a tribe from the north descended on the village and every able-bodied man and boy went out to defend their homes and farms. Many died that day. But the farmer’s son who could not fight through no fault of his own was spared. Oh, said the neighbors, what good fortune! Perhaps, said the farmer

And so the old ones say that just beneath good fortune crouches disaster but always perched above disaster one finds good fortune and it is impossible to know which is really which unless we say it’s so.

Story Prompt: When have disaster and good fortune met up to turn your world around and how did you choose which would win out? Write that story!      

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