WRITING PROMPTS | FLASH FICTION
End of the Line
A First Line Fiction prompted short story
Come stretch your imagination and feast your fingers on the keyboard with First Line Fiction where, you guessed it, the first line is the prompt!
The train lurched forward and pulled away, carrying with it his dreams as it rolled out of sight. His exhale was a deflation; it came from a bottom inside him he hadn’t felt since childhood. Or maybe it had always been there, and he had spent his life carefully sidestepping the chasm. Either way, the emptiness was the same: a complete hollowing of his soul.
The silence after the roar and howl of the iron dragon’s departure was just as deafening. Becoming a father was the easiest thing, but staying one was so much harder. He looked after the train; even though it was far beyond sight, he wished he could have gotten on with them and taken it back in time. I’m never going to get them back. I had it all but couldn’t see it.
