100 Word Challenge entry
Jul 21, 2011
This is my attempt at Julia Skinner's 100 word challenge. Be gentle with me.[caption id="attachment_120" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="100 Word Challenge inspiration"]
[/caption]Bronzed
Tanned. Weather-beaten. Sun-kissed. Interesting that a bunch of pallid, over-coated islanders should so worship the sun. Or maybe not so interesting. We don’t get enough of it perhaps to feel complacent.
Bronzed has always seemed such a heroic ideal. Not only because statues of soldiers are routinely cast in the stuff, but because of the Bronze Age heroes I lapped up as a kid: Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon.
For me, a particularly pale specimen, the reality of spending time in the sun is very far from the mahogany skinned ideal flaunted in travel brochures and David Hasselhoff TV vehicles.
I burn.
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