The End | A 100 Word Story

#123 LEAVES

She ripped the page from her notebook, then crumpled and threw it at her wastepaper basket, surrounded by dozens of similar failed attempts. Her notebook had just a few sheets remaining.

“This is so stupid,” she muttered to herself.

She wrote the word THE and stared at it till it lost all meaning. Her doctors said writing was the best medicine, in their professional opinion.

“Don’t let an accident stop you,” they said. Her award winning books taunting her on the shelves. She wanted to scream. The words just wouldn’t come anymore.

Then she wrote END, and that was enough.

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By Sharron Bassano

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