2023 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 11
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by Managing Editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today’s prompt is to write about two opposite people.
For today’s prompt, write about two opposite people.
Remember: These prompts are just starting points; you have the freedom to go wherever your flash of inspiration takes you.
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Here’s my attempt at writing about two opposite people:
Infertility
The doctor tells them the news, and they don’t yet know what to ask.
“Take time to process,” the doctor says.
Their car ride passes in silence.
“I want a second opinion,” he says. “But even if she’s right, there are options.”
She wants to tell him that she’s afraid this is a wound she won’t know how to heal. That her body is not a problem he can solve—that all she wants is for him to hold her.
“I want a cheeseburger,” she says instead.
His eyes cut to her for just a second. “’Course, babe. Anything.”
