It’s Photo Fiction time. A writing prompt challenged hosted by Alastair. The following is the photo and my story. To read more or to get the rules so you can join in go here
Life Moves On – word count 150
The nurse left for the night and won’t return until morning. She’s alone looking out the window watching the sun splashing soft yellow and vibrant orange over the distant buildings. From her window she can hear people talking as they pass by outside. The birds chatter as they settle for the night.
She’s tired and the fight is gone. She picks up a bottle of white liquid. The instructions say take one teaspoon in a glass of water for pain, don’t exceed more than four teaspoons a day. She pours the whole jar in her glass. She looks at a bottle of pills then shakes them all in her hand. She pops them in her mouth and swallows them down with her glass of milky water. Outside children are laughing as they play in the approaching night. She closes her eyes and waits for the light to guide her from this life.
Perfect for National Suicide Month. This one zapped me right in the gut.
You are so kind. Again thank you for reading and visiting.
Some life choices are easier than others. I’m glad I found your piece, but kind of sad for the loss of life.
So many stories and so little time to read them all.
Wow!
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Is that the emoticon for wow? Your writing was so powerful it left me speechlessly moved; Wow was all I could think of.
🙂 Richard you are the best. I my finger slipped on the shift key. 🙂
Been there, Kim; not a good place to be…!
You wrote this piece with great feeling, and an eerie acceptance… I was heartened to read this line – “Outside children are laughing as they play in the approaching night.”
Yes it is a dark place. I’ve been there too. I added the children to show that life continues on. Well I know you got that. 🙂
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Sometimes taking one’s life may sound like the easy way out. Good story, Kim 🙂
Yes it does, especially when life gets hard as it does from time to time.
Powerful! A life choice only the person living with the pain can make. Well done,
Thanks. I’ve felt like this at times but my will to live is stronger.
A strong story of choices. Well done.
Thank you. 🙂
But sometimes it is better to die for once and all, rather than dying every single day.
Anyways, great post. Got goosebumps.
Thank you glad you liked it.
How ironic – Her job was to save lives & here she has taken the most important one away…
Great story!
She wasn’t the nurse. She was the patient her nurse left. But your thought would have been good.
I’m am so backwards today…
It may be me. I wanted to support Alastair I may not have made it clear.
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What a blindingly brilliant story. I love the sorrow of it. It is, however, rarely the answer as you say. Great story though
Thank you.
Exit stage left is always an option…
Always but not always the answer.