FICTION | DRABBLE | RANDOM WORD CHALLENGE

The Sculptor’s Masterpiece

Random Word Drabble Challenge Day 254 word is ‘pliable,’ and we must end the story with the given sentence 👇👇👇

Stephen Dalton
Fiction Shorts
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3 min readSep 11, 2024

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A woman’s head and shoulders perfectly sculpted — Leonardo Phoenix AI image creation tool.

The word on 10 September was pliable

A drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words, no more, no less.

With hands as steady as ever, Antonio worked the pliable clay, shaping the figure of a woman.

His passion for sculpting had consumed him for years, but this time it felt different. Every curve, every line, seemed to come alive beneath his fingers. Day and night, he molded her, driven by an unseen force.

Finally, she was perfect — a life-sized masterpiece, more real than anything he’d ever created. Exhausted, he stepped back to admire his work.

Then Juliet blinked and whispered, “Thank you for setting me free.”

“Of course, I’d set you free. What the hell were you thinking?”

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Stephen Dalton
Fiction Shorts

Stephen Dalton is a retired US Army First Sergeant with a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland. Top Writer in Investing, Business, & Bitcoin!