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SUSANNAH BRESLIN

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Writing Prompts

February 08, 2017  /  Susannah Breslin

I came across this writing prompt yesterday:

"Write a love story about two inanimate objects."

Let's give it a shot.

The Married Couple

The dead husband and the dead wife were hiding in their drawers. It was late, and someone had turned out all the lights. Inside the drawers, it was dark. It was impossible to hear anything -- not the soft whir of the refrigeration stopping them from rotting, not the absentminded whistling of the coroner who had gone home, not the endless buzzing of thoughts in their minds for there were none. The bank of drawers was like a condo overlooking a river when a hurricane is coming: windows shuttered, blinds drawn, toilets flushed. Time itself filled up the spaces where their dreams, and their feelings, and their memories used to be. Briefly, a neuron lit up, then flamed out, vanishing into the blackness.

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tags / FICTION, EXPERIMENTS, DEATH
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