Waterford Crystal Daydream – a Flash Fiction story by Leslie DeVooght
Declan paced, studying the techniques of the first-year apprentices. Each approached the furnace with wrinkled brows, all but Caitlin, daughter of Waterford’s senior blower, Patrick O’Malley. Declan had trained under him for five years, and her over-protective father was the only reason Declan avoided her. She twirled the six-foot metal rod; her pale blue eyes…