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I urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (provide a translation please 
). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.
Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.
P. S. I found this article with real photographs from old 1870s London. The photographer made a collection to encompass poverty at the time. I found this one particularly captivating. I wonder what they were all thinking!
by John Thompson . Taken from this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123212/Black-white-pictures-capture-lives-Londoners-1800s.html
The earrings sparkled. I reached out to touch it. “Don’t!” my mother snapped. The shopkeeper was a man with a thick beard. He watched me with his beady eyes.
“I don’t mind if you touch, sweetie. But it’s best to listen to your mother.”
I nodded. Heat flushed to my cheeks and I kept my hands behind my back. I wanted to look like I didn’t care anymore. But they were so pretty. I wondered what kind of woman would wear such jewels.
“How many daughters do you have?” the man asked. My mother shot him a look of disgust. She had always talked ill of this shopkeeper. I had always wondered why? Was he a thief? His brother kept staring at me. I backed away from the table and held onto my mother’s dress.
– Ermisenda Alvarez
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It’s a dark world out there. Here’s my contribution:)
http://pressedupinabook.com/?p=2010
Scary thing is that people have sold their children before for objects. Some people have their price. Those few lines sum up the picture nicely!
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Nice story Ermisenda! There is a lot of menace in your characters but it is described very well.
Here’s mine
http://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/picture-it-and-write-behind-the-coloured-doors/
Enjoy
I love how you delved into the history of the image. You tried to show the poverty that the photographer also wanted to show. It’s a time that shouldn’t be forgotten. It can come back and it still exists for many. Thanks for the contribution, Joe. 🙂
That was a really rich and potent piece, loved it 🙂
Thanks, Sjp. 🙂 I tried to stay simple and I think it worked.
Wow – I love a picture that makes me think and then makes me write something completely unexpected.
Here is what I surprised myself with this week;
http://awritersfountain.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/picture-it-write-victorian-secrets/
Now I have written mine I can read yours.
Ohhhh love the intrigue – there are so many stories that can be conceived from this write. WOW!
Thanks for your words. I tried to leave it up to the reader to make sense of what’s happening. 🙂
Old photographs always seduce me. I want to know what happened. And I think we have that with our own ancestry. If I had the chance to find many old old photos of my family, I would hoard them. I love history and especially when it’s tied with our own blood. Thanks for contribution, Neens. 🙂
Here is my entry for this week.
http://gotmeghan.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/picture-it-write-deceiver-of-fools/
I love how you threw in the tale of ‘Abigail’. Menacing and intriguing. That was my favourite part. One must always be wary because there are too many evil people in the world. Thanks for contributing this week, Meghan. 🙂