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Title: The Power of Music
Source: Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers – Week of March 21, 2017
Word count: 150 words
Oliver’s first love was music. His hands played beauty, carried emotions, connected him with others who recognized his joy. He was alive when he played.
Convinced this love was fleeting, seeing only harm in his devotion, his parents encouraged him to find love elsewhere. To look towards a love to sustain him for his entire life. A love allowing him to provide for a wife, a family, enabling him to have the finer things in life and retire in comfort.
To please his parents, he sacrificed, denied his love, took her as his mistress. Clandestine meetings, stolen moments, whispered promises of someday, made when no one could hear. Publicly, he followed the money, intent on keeping his promises.
The money came at a price. A blackmail he no longer wished to pay. He confessed his love, embraced his true love, the one that would sustain him for his entire life.
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Jo Hawk 
Glad he followed his true love in spite of everything. Nice take.
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Thank you. Glad you liked it.
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Wonderful story Jo! A story to remind us to follow our hearts and to not ignore that calling in order to please others.
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Thanks PJ. Glad you liked it. As always, thanks for the great prompt. 🙂
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My pleasure!
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so close to truth of many lives, lead away from their true love, forced to make it a sad mistress waiting to be loved, love the way you weaved this story Jo!
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Your words mean so much to me. Thank you.
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Excellent writing! Actually, writers are like that too… we push writing aside to make money to support ourselves in other jobs, but the love of writing keeps calling us back. Good analogy of our love/passion for something becoming a “mistress” until we FINALLY feel that we need to put our love/passions FIRST! This is life! GREAT POST!
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It is true of any creative person and the need to pay the bills. I am so pleased that you enjoyed this piece. Thank you.
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My friend, Dave, did too. He said you had commented on a post where he wrote about handwriting. He was at ND when I was at SMC, but I met him and his wife years later at an alumnae meeting. He wrote an interesting post this week about Dave and Goliath. Looks like we are all following each other. That’s nice!
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Profound in its simple message.
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Thank you.
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Love the analogy you used – the one of a wife/mistress, and following the expectations of others while still secretly nursing your own passion. I’m glad he chose to follow his own path though, in the end!
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I am happy it struck a chord with you. 🙂 Thanks for the comment.
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You illustrated so well, how so many people are driven to follow the wrong career, well done
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Thank you.
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This is so profound and so real too. Many are caught in the trap of trying to earn a living and fail to live a life of their passion and dreams. I enjoyed your take.
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Well done. Glad he decided to follow his bliss in the end.
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