S T O R Y F O U R:
Her fingers sped across the keyboard in a frenzy.
She'd began with a promise—a promise to write down her thoughts. The thoughts that every day were so loud they were suffocating, demanding attention, squeezing out anything but those calamitous words that trammeled through her mind.
Yet as she wrote, her words turned to sentences, those sentences turning to paragraphs, those paragraphs transforming into pages. Slowly, the words, once so insignificant, became a breathing manifestation of her. Slowly, the stories she created breathed life back into a broken, scarred soul.
She paused, leaning back and smiling.
Yes—finally, her mind was silent.
YOU ARE READING
100 Word Stories
Short StoryFlash Fiction ● A form of fiction that "communicates via caesuras and crevices. There is no asking more, no premise of comprehensiveness, because flash fiction is a form that privileges excision over agglomeration."
