Title: La Dolce Vita
Source: Friday Fictioneers sponsored by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple
Word count: 100 words
Reality’s wispy figments hung beyond her grasp. Days begun at four in the afternoon kept her translucent skin safe from the sun’s ravaging rays. Neon demons, crowded clubs, and illicit pharmaceuticals eased her into sensational poses. The paparazzi clamored for more.
Fellini scenes, gray-scale backdrops to life, encouraged Sylvia, sweet Sylvia’s whispers. Begging for peace, she scoured each avenue for escape from her manic world. Exhausted, detached, bordering on sociopathic but yearning for connection, she ended each dawn at the fountain in search of the answer. Hidden from the world for so long, she had forgotten where her soul drowned.
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
Gripping.
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The photo reminded me of the film. 🙏
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👍👍👍
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Great take on the photo prompt, Jo.
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
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Thank you, Susan. 🙏
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Wow, this is vividly written. Too many great lines to single one out. Wow.
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I am thrilled you enjoyed this, J.A. Thank you. 🙏
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good description of a person in crisis
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I am glad you like this, my friend. 🙏
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That was a pretty neat description of a mind and life in tumult. Hope she finds her soul soon.
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Sylvia always struck me as a soul on the edge. And Fellini didn’t leave us many clues. I am glad you liked the description. 🙏
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Jo, just a hundred words? And not one of them wasted. If I were to choose one word to describe this piece of writing: powerful.
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Thank you for the kind words, Jean. I’m glad you enjoyed the story. 🙏
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Thank you so much for connecting and sharing your first, I hope of many more to come, at BOSS
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Thank you Esme.
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I can feel her inner turmoil, nice one!
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Thank you draliman 🙏
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Oh for a life more ordinary. You took us right into her troubled mind. Remarkable.
Here’s mine!
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Glad you enjoyed it, Keith.
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A very intriguing story. I want to know more!
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Thank you, Brenda. 🙏
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From ‘Reality’s wispy figments hung beyond her grasp’ to ‘she had forgotten where her soul drowned’, you’ve really used a distinctive style of writing. All the years of slogging away, making sure you write and publish every day, are really paying off for you. Well done!
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Thank Penny. I will get there someday. 😊👍
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Absolutely wonderful fan fic, Jo! I could picture her!
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Thank you, Dale. I’m glad she seemed real to you. 💕
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Very much so.
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To live. a celebrity can be both the best and the worst… I assume that in the end, it will take its toll
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You might be right. Björn 👍
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