I don’t know if you’d consider this cheating or not. *grins* I decided I’d try my hand at Gemini’s Fiction in a Flash exercise using the first Inspiration Tag. I’ve been wanting to write something based off the tag anyway. So here it is - enjoy, and feel free to let me know what you think!

They could have been stars, those tiny pinpricks of light in the darkness. But they weren’t. Sun-On-Water knew better. They were the eyes of the ancestors, bright with disapproval of her.

The fire caught, flaring. She hacked at the think tail of her hair, finally laying it amidst the flames. Turning from the ancestors in disgrace, she prostrated herself in front of the fire. Soft chanting rose, pleading their forgiveness.