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Saturday Prose Prompt: Soothing Fires

Photo by Bjorn Pierre on Unsplash

Obsession is a wandering ghost with arms like undulating ropes in a trick show, rattling chains, allowing me to doze only to shake me to waking.

Taking snapshots, a torture upon the hour as the clocks smack out their tick tocks like the chewing gum of a haughty young girl with her hand on the brake and a curly, snide smile frozen in place —