Ok what does a sleazy diner and the yellow brick road have to do with each other? Today’s Daily Dose 100 word story is entitled Cheap Eats Diner, Enjoy!

Cheap Eats Diner

Wiping caustic sweat from her brow, stepping from behind the grill smiling like a little girl not the dejected woman she had become.

Seven years since they argued, now hands touching her soul felt elated.

Before today this colorless joint was her cross, her tomb of forgotten dreams.

Holding hands they opened the door.

Like a rusted colander her boss shouted “ you leave, don’t come back.”

The fading grill at their backs mother and daughter walked past the laundry past the litter and onto the yellow brick road.

I wonder, do dreams ever really die? Can they be resurrected?