Fiction Shorts | Random Word Drabble Challenge
Freedom, For Now
Drabble #333 — Gratitude
A Drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words. No more. No less.
The word of the day is GRATITUDE. The twist is the setting: a place of comfort.
It was a time for family and for gratitude, but she had retreated to the safe space of her car somewhere between the gravy argument and the annual sleeping-it-off-on-the-couch ritual.
Four wheels and walls of steel held all the pent-up secrets, the yearning, the waiting for a freedom that could never come soon enough.
She drove to the beach, like she always did. Lowered the windows and listened to the sounds of the ocean coming and going as it pleased. Released.
Home wasn’t where you were supposed to feel trapped, but she always had.
This story was inspired by the Random Word Drabble Challenge by Nancy Oglesby at Fiction Shorts.
