Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#45 where we’re asked to be creative in exactly
54 words using the word ‘drum’. Also for
Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge
using the word “journal”. Here’s my take.
She found her late mother’s notebook in the attic; the pages had turned yellow and brittle.
Each entry began the same way: Today I was blessed.
Outside, rain continued its steady drum against the roof.
She uncapped her pen, turned to a blank page in her own journal, and wrote those same four words.
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54 Words
This is “Blessed” by Elton John
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