“You’d do it if you loved me.”
Those seven words changed her life forever. Once she gave in, he wouldn’t answer her calls or talk to her at school. She was a nobody again. Then the nausea started, and her flow stopped, and she knew. He called her names and refused to believe her.
Her friends abandoned her, her family was ashamed of her, but she welcomed the life growing inside her. She practiced singing lullabies and reciting nursery rhymes, waiting to love this tiny person with her whole heart.
“We’ll do it all, everything, on our own,” she promised.
The 100 Word Challenge, a writing prompt created by Velvet Verbosity, takes a single theme to tell a story in only 100 words ~ no more, no less. This week’s theme is inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s 8th Tip on How to Write a Great Story, ‘Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water..’
100 Word Song, is a writing challenge from Lance based on a weekly music prompt. The Challenge is to compose a story in exactly 100 words. This week’s challenge is inspired by “Chasing Cars,” by Snow Patrol.
Long before a little blue line on a pee stick told me I was pregnant, I knew. I knew the exact moment my husband and I conceived both of our children. I ‘felt’ it – long before my OB confirmed conception, long before I heard their swishing heartbeats, and long before they were big enough for me to feel them kick. And I knew… this was what I wanted, was meant, to be… a mother, their mother.
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Really good. I share the emotions and experience with your character and you’ve portrayed it so good. I felt like this is how it was going to be. I was lucky I had family who supported and loved me anyway.
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The love of a mother, in 100 perfectly placed words. Love it.
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Gorgeous. I know what you mean, being not just any mom, but THEIR mom, was meant to be.
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Lovely story. And that photo is just precious.
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You wrote my story. I was pregnant with Tay my senior year. Very hard, but I wouldnt change a thing. Great writing.
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awww, so sweet. and I love love LOVE that picture!!! precious
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Well. Whew. It was a good one, and while this never happened to me , ever, I was that girl who gave in at the drop of those 7 words, many times. The girl who was not called back or told afterwards taht she was not as important as someone else.
but the being Pregnant part, I wish I could say that I felt these emotions. Once the IVF worked, maybe I felt a tiny part of it, but I never got to experience that heady rush of “OMG I’m Pregnant”.
so that girl in me, loved the part about learning lullabies and awaiting that baby, because that I have felt, even when i was scared to death about losing my babies.
this was just so emotional and raw. I really loved it.
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I really liked this one, well done.
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so easy to relate to, even from a male point of view. I love the raw emotion. great 100…enjoy your trip.
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I knew, too. In Caroline’s case, I was in sweaty agony, and with Sam, I was just sticky and everything felt tight all of the sudden.
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