Flash, Micro Story, Phrase Prompt, Word Prompt

Free Bird

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
#453
where we’re asked to get creative in
exactly 43 words using the word ‘mourn’.
Also for Sue & Gerry’s Weekly Prompts –
The One Day Prompt
. Here’s my take.

Image by Me & Copilot

She packed in silence, folding regret into her suitcase. One day, they would understand why she left without saying goodbye. For now, let them mourn the version of her they’d invented….the daughter they thought would stay contained forever. She couldn’t take another day.

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43 Words

This is “She’s Leaving Home” by The Beatles

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