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RANDO #30 | PROMPT
Dreaming Small
Cause dreaming big was trouble.
She was a daydreamer but was afraid to dream big. Dreaming small kept her out of trouble. She’d sit in class, her face planted in the palm of her hand, her eyes focused somewhere in the middle distance, and her mind wandering away from the dull room. The teacher droned on about something, algebraic equations, giving the class some time to work out the examples, and Lucy solved them as if they were part of her reverie.
The doodles poured out of her pencil all over the margins as her mind drifted from the classroom. Flowers bloomed on the vines and tangled around the lines, the leaves rustling in the breeze. Curlicues of grass sprang up and looped through the solutions to equations that she had written down.
She shaded areas, defining shadows. A ladybug crept out from behind a dandelion stem, its wings fluttering from underneath the outer shell. A snail slithered over a leaf, its horns projecting out and hiding once again.
Lifting her pencil off the paper, Lucy examined the busy garden she had created. She marveled at it for a long moment before turning the pencil over and beginning to erase. She got the snail just in time, but the ladybug was faster than the rubber tip. It took flight, fluttering away toward the window while Lucy…
