99 word prompt: Whispers
October 7, 2021, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story that includes whispers. It can be beautiful or creepy and any genre. Where are the whispers, who are they from, and what do they say if they say anything at all. Go where the prompt leads!
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God whispers, “No one dies.”
I ask, “Why was I given life?”
Love whispers, “This is an interlude.”
“Time’s twists and turns aren’t the journey?”
My eyes glisten and tears threaten to overcome my rational mind. Were anyone to know God speaks to me, I would surely be taken to an asylum.
“Maude?”
The face staring at me is not happy.
“Mother?”
“Your fiancé awaits.”
“I would rather die than marry that fat, old man!”
“It is that, or be disowned.”
In 1886, a rich woman of 15 learns she is nothing more than a slave to her station.
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Oh, “a slave to her station.” When the youth full of potential realizes she is nothing more than a Mrs. Potential and purpose disrupted. Cemeteries are full of those reminders. So hard to trace the stories of women outside the lines they were made to stay within.
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Too many murdered possibilities. That was not original, I read it in one of the first Ms. Magazines and it “stuck” inside my brain. 😊
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Hmmm. The asylum is an option for her, but it’d likely end up driving her crazy.
Yes, she is in a grim situation with that station.
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Wonderful evaluation.
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True story. Simple, straightforward language, but the issues pack a punch.
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I’m utterly grateful to exist in our time. We’ve got a ways still to go but have come so far already. You’ve crafted a whole world in so few words too. You’ve written no description, but the piece gives off a deep sense of the values of her time and place.
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