99 word prompt : Free
November 30, 2017 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that includes self-care. Does the character need it? What does the character do? Think about how you can use this action to deepen a character or move a story. Go where the prompt leads. Respond by December 7, 2017
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June stood at the kitchen door, eyeing the knife next to her mother’s cutting board.
“I talked to my social worker. I’m moving out.”
“I’m your legal guardian,” her mother frowned. “I told her, ’absolutely NOT.’”
“I can take care of myself!” June insisted.
“You’re retarded!”
“That’s not a nice word, Leslie.”
“Why can’t you call me mom?”
“You act like a prison guard!”
Mom scoffed, opening the fridge, her ample body covering the door. June grabbed the knife, plunging it into Leslie’s rib cage.
She stared into her mother’s startled eyes and whispered, “Now I can be free.”
Yes well on one level you could say there is freedom, on another not so.
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Exactly.
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Wow, now that’s a great take on the prompt. Loved it.
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Thanks. 🙂
My day job is in social services. You learn a lot about the human mind and soul — some of it good, some bad.
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Interesting take on self-care. First things first I suppose, though now she’ll be in the care of the state.
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With a good advocate, there are people who have successfully fought to be free of a guardian. But the person has to have a good advocate.
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Oh dear. Drastic measures. I don’t think she’ll really be free.
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…at least not for many years.
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🙂
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The idea of self-care gets twisted in this power struggle where the guardian is the guard. This has all the hallmarks of a good crime story.
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Thanks. 🙂
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