Shawn L. Bird

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#30Words30Days- 7. Identity April 7, 2023

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#microfiction challenge to write 30 thirty word stories during April in response to a daily prompt

She isn’t sure who she is anymore.

She is a daughter. She is a wife.

Once, she was going to be a mother.

Now she just feels hollow and lost.

 

#30Words30Days-6 Solitary April 6, 2023

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A writing challenge on Twitter to write a 30 word story each day in April, following prompts.

Day 6: Solitary

This time, she thinks, she will master it.

She will settle her frantic breaths.

She will climb from the abyss.

She is her own greatest fear.

She must battle herself.

 

30Words30Days-5. Outcast April 5, 2023

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30 Words30Days prompt #5 Outcast.

He definitely feels he’s been cast out to give her time to discover contentment in solitude.

How paradoxical: he gets a far-flung journey; she learns to bide peacefully with herself.

 

#30Words30Days- 4. Gather April 4, 2023

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#30Words30Days. Day 4 prompt: Gather

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Come morning, I gather what remains of our life and return to the car.

When I’m alone, I’m never lonely.

She gathered her loneliness around herself.

What’s she feeling now?

 

30Words30Days-3 Chief April 3, 2023

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#30Words30Days Day 3 prompt: chief

Her chief complaint was loneliness even when he was sitting beside her.
How could he answer to absence he experienced as presence?
She had to find contentment in companionship herself.

 

30Words30Days#2- Communicate April 2, 2023

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#30Words30Days prompt from https://twitter.com/pleomorphic2

Each day in April Sumitra (pleomorphic2) will post a prompt on Twitter. Participants are to respond with a 30 word story. Follow along and see how it goes!

2. Communicate

The publican doesn’t understand my words, but I mime sleep; he pulls out the ledger. I mime drinking; he pulls a pint.

I’ll be okay here, if my luck holds.

 

30words#1 Prompt: Village April 1, 2023

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#30Words30Days prompt from https://twitter.com/pleomorphic2

Each day in April Sumitra (pleomorphic2) will post a prompt on Twitter. Participants are to respond with a 30 word story. Follow along and see how it goes!

1. VILLAGE

The road ends at a seaside village.
There’s a light on at the pub. It has rooms to let, so I book one.
I’ve nowhere else to be. Do I?