Use the image as your poem or story starter. What is it's history? Who lived and worked there? Why was it abandoned?
How to use this prompt: Using the picture and heading, create a short story or poem incorporating it. There is no right or wrong 'answer' just whatever your imagination sparks from the subject.
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One Last Time
Water Wheel Prompt – Feb. 6, 2021
1972 – Jefferson, a seventy-five year old man trekked carefully through the overgrown fields. The past fifty-seven years paid its toll on the land – the grass was higher, there were trees throughout the field that weren’t there when he used to make his daily run, and it had become a dumping ground for everybody’s discarded crap. Despite all the changes to the area and the fact it took him more time to get there, he knew exactly where he was going. He could find the place blindfolded. He worked at the old flour mill for ten years of his life until cheap electricity made the need for water power…