February 2018: SciFi Cometition
Write a drabble (exactly 100 words) around the prompt 'freedom'. Must include the word freedom at least once.
The couplers let go.
I heard the telltale hissing.
The tension that had been in my safety harness and rigging instantly vanished.
One moment I was hanging safely from the floating work station above PRIME-7's noxious gas fields, doing routine maintenance work, and the next I was hurtling toward certain death.
In total panic, I pitched inward toward the skeleton of the work station hoping to hitch up on the tail.
When I thought of finally earning my freedom from this stinking, minimum-security prison called PRIME-7, I never once dreamt it would come at the price of my very life.
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