99 word prompt: Reflection
January 3, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about a character who looks back. It can be a metaphorical reflection or a glance in the rear-view mirror. Who is looking back, and why? Go where the prompt leads.
If you want to participate, here’s the link: https://carrotranch.com/2019/01/04/january-3-flash-fiction-challenge/
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“You dare ask why?” I chuckled, my voice calm… eyes narrowed.
My friends stormed inside to help me finish off a man who thought nothing of using young girls as commodities.
For my 18th birthday, these same friends had pooled their money for a night of pleasure in the big city. One of the whores standing on a corner was my sister, who’d disappeared the year before!
Rehab couldn’t save the shell that remained. I dedicated my life to ridding the world of pimps, and other parasitic vermin.
“She was only 12!” I said, beating his face to pulp.
This is such a sad narrative!
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I watched a documentary on how young girls are scoped out around the age of 12 or 13. It was so sad.
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Very unfortunate. Heartbreaking
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Agreed.
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It’s crazy to me , in this day and age, that females are still used like products to be bought and sold. Intense piece – in 99 words!!!
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Thanks.
Human trafficking (aka slavery) is not only alive and well, but flourishing. It isn’t just one hue of humanity that’s affected, or one sex or age. No one wants to see that it’s happening, but there are some organizations that are trying to stop it.
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A very sad topic. A well written and heart rending piece.
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Such a powerful flash, Joelle, yet crafted well between the first and last line as a framework to what happens and why.
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Thanks. 🙂
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Your flash reminds me of a movie I watched where to girls were taken – Oh, I think that was the title “Taken” – one girl did not survive. But the father of the one who was rescued took out many a ‘bad’ guy.
There was also a book I read of a ‘kept’ woman who once her ‘Man’ died – chose to rescue other women from that ‘profession’ – and the bravery and change she had to go through.
It is so sad that this type of activity still happens. And it is hard to feel any pity for the pimps.
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It’s happening every day, and in numbers that people don’t want to believe. We have to forget about past wrongs and start eradicating slavery as it exists today.
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You peeled back the curtain in that tale of vengeance. Well done, a well spent 99 words.
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Thanks.
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What a powerful story, sad, too true, but powerfully told.
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Thanks.
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