How Do You Choose Your Clothes on a Morning?
A trio of micro stories
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1 min readMay 17, 2020
I wrote these micro-stories for the Briefly Write Weekly Prompt Game. This week’s task is to write a micro-story that includes the words BLUE, CHOICE, and SHUFFLE.
How Do You Choose Your Clothes on a Morning?
She hesitated. Blue jumper or red jumper? She’d never been good with these sorts of choices.
A shuffling noise from behind hurried her up.
She chose red.
Slowly, she crept back through the church. Took a final pitying look. Then smothered him.
Controlled
She shuffled through an empty village. Felt spooked by its silence.
The perfect blue sky glistened menacingly. A chilling breeze blew from nowhere.
“Choice not chance” she muttered to herself. “Choice not…”
She arrived at her fate. Knocked hesitantly.
The Last Blue Rose
A blue rose
Incessant
Vibrancy.
A choice to make
Should I go?
