These Strings We Pull
Marianne's Tale
"I've had it with you! You're useless!"
Marianne bowed her head to hide the shame blossoming across her cheeks. "All I ever do is what you ask, Thomas."
Thomas grimaced down at her, lips curled in disgust and eyes hidden in shadow. "Well, then you never do it right."
Marianne stared back at him woodenly. How? For years, she danced to his tune, leapt to his commands. He controlled everything.
Sneering, Thomas cast the wooden toggle to the floor and stomped off. Instantly, Marianne fell slack, clattered in a heap and tangled in her strings. The ones he'd always pulled.
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Kelly Robertson
Wrangler of chaos. Creator of more. Writing whatever my heart desires, from fantasy to poetry and more!
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I thought I'd read this before -- looks like I did! Just forgot to heart, I guess. I enjoyed this just as much the second time around; the ending is so, so profound 🥹❤️
Well-structured & engaging content
A puppets nightmare
Amazing!
Strong story! Powerful metaphorical twist. Congratulations! 🥇🥇🥇
Fantastic! I love the metaphor here - very well deserved Top Story.
Oh, I felt the despondency and humiliation and pain in that. Powerful writing. Congratulations on Top Story!!
Congrats on Top Story!! 🤗🤗
Fantastic job! This is truly a big little story!
Brilliant! I can't believe you conveyed so much in so few words!
Excellent story. Congratulations on the top story
Nicely built-up Kelly, congratulation on Top Story!
I love that you let the reader's mind interpret the story. Congratulations on your Top Story!
Congratulations on your excellent Top Story
This is astounding….you did this micro thing masterfully!!
Oh. You can read this story in many different ways and they are all wounding. Well done and congratulations on your Top Story!
Very clever. Love this one. Congrats on the TS
A very bleak moment put in a poetic and powerful prose. Excellent work here. Congratulations on top story!
Very good. Definitely agree with the excellent naming. I got to the end and went “Ohhhh, Marianne, I get it now”.
Whoaaaa, that was brilliant! Looking forward to read more of your entries if you do write more 💖
Dang. Great story
Love it. Clever what you did with her name.
OH! This is great. Emotional and clever ending :)
Very clever,
Very good!!! You did a great job with this.