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Write a brief bit of fiction using the prompt "Knot."
Friday Fiction is your opportunity to write a short (short, short, short) story. Many participants use more than one minute for Friday Fiction prompts, and I don't generally take the length of the post into account when I name a Friday winner.
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Why I love The Hunger Games
3 days ago
3 comments:
"Yes, Darling, I'll be happy to marry you. I've been hoping you'd ask."
"Wonderful, Sweetheart, I'll tell everyone we're tying the knot."
"What? No. No knots."
"Don't get so upset, it's only a metaphor."
"Metaphors matter -- a lot -- to me -- to knots."
"I don't understand. We love each other, right?"
"Not with knots, no. Erase this conversation. No marriage. No, no, I will not knot."
Fear of heights
Dread of hurting feelings
Fear of failure
Knotted all over
Her fingers were raw, bleeding, by the time she finally untangled the twine around the box. It had taken months—maybe years—to accomplish. But now, slowly, using only the unbloodied pads of her fingers, Pandora lifts the lid…
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