She Tries To Remember
Drabble Drop : Corpse
She paces the dressing room in sheer panic, gaining speed as she crosses the room over and over again.
She mutters under her breath, the wording her own personal mantra, “I must remember, I must remember.”
The words reverb around the room, reaching the ears of her fellow actors. They smile with pity at the mess she has worked herself up to.
They understand fully why she is panicking as she has a tendency to corpse in the middle of her rehearsals.
What they don’t understand is why she doesn’t find another profession, rather than put herself through this constantly.
I was challenged to write a drabble of the word 'corpse'.
Wikipedia defines a drabble as follows :
A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Comments (3)
This is one of the great writings I have read!
You're so brilliant my friend! I would have just written about a dead body hahahaha. Loved your story!
Marvelous microfiction story!!! Loving it!!!