Rochelle Wiseoff-Fields instructs participants to:
Write a complete story in 100 words or less
Beginning, Middle and End
Proofread and Edit
Post and link your Story URL
Include photo prompt and InLinkz code
Take the time to read and comment.
Make. Every. Word. Count.
PHOTO PROMPT © Peter Abbey
HOPE
I gazed through the walkway, an unassuming path that screamed danger. I ignored the warning. My desire for freedom was like an unquenchable thirst. I would allow nothing to stand in my way.
It was my sixteenth birthday and the exact hour of my birth, the moment when we were given the option to join the cult or take the path to the unknown. Did I have the nerve?
Was it courage to want a life that didn’t start with a motherhood before my seventeenth birthday? If I didn’t make it through the gauntlet, it meant death.
I chose.
Hope.
100 words
Yolanda Renée © 2017
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Hi Yolanda, really liked the voice in this and the take on the prompt. Very well written.
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Thanks, lain, It was an immediate response when I saw the prompt!
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Very intense, loved it.
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Thanks!
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Dear Yolanda,
Very well done. I hope she runs as far from there as she can get.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle, I hope she does too!
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Good voice in this. Very convincing.
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Thank you, Sandra!
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Nicely written. I feel her despair.
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Thanks, appreciate your comment and your visit!
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Very intense voice and awful Hobson’s choice. Well done
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Hope to being her own person is better than becoming a cog in a machine that allows no freedom. I so hope she makes it!
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Tough choices, but her hope shines through loud and clear. Great story.
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