Title: Until Death
Source: Flash Fiction Challenge
Prompt: Write a story about Cora Kingston.
Word count: 99 words
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Cora read Papa’s letter again, hoping the words would change, knowing they would not. Her beloved John had succumbed. Typhoid. She pressed the letter to her heart and closed her eyes, remembering the last time they had been together, the day they said goodbye.
She was excited. Papa arranged for her to accompany cousin Olivia on her Grand Tour. They would be gone a year and when she returned, she and John would marry.
The thought grabbed her heart, squeezing, constricting, making her wish for death.
She sat, immobile, cold, her life disintegrating. Papa’s letter fluttered to the floor.
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Write
Jo Hawk 
Aw, so sad.
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I know. But the story fit the facts. 😐
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Yes, sometimes you have to write where your story is taking you.
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OH my heart! You ended it very well, even though its sad.
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A sad tale of great loss. Nicely written!
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Thank you Brenda. I couldn’t help thinking about the ways people received such news in the past.
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