100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week#160
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Prompt: …but what will I write…
Story:
A gaunt body under the sheets startled when Joann threw open the shades.
“Get up Maggie,” Joann said. Maggie moaned and buried her head under the pillow. Joann put the cup of medicines and some water on the bedside table, then took the pillow and sheets off Maggie.
“Get up Maggie,” she said again. “I have pen and paper for you in the community room.”
“I don’t want to,” Maggie shielded her eyes from the light.
“Too bad. It’s required in the steps.” Joann lifted Maggie to sitting.
“But what will I write? I left my son seventeen years ago. He was just a baby.”
Specifics: 105 words of fiction, pure fiction (one hundred words plus the five-word prompt (I hope I interpreted the instructions correctly)). I’ve written of my own drug and alcohol use, but this isn’t my story. Thank all goodness for that. Be well. Addiction is a beast. There is help, for those who care to accept it.
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I like your writing. You don’t write to chance, you are from the stove of writers. You have something into the words. They include the “eyes” on the time + action of what you refer.
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What a lovely comment, and compliment. Thank you! And thank you for coming by to read today.
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