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Rated: 18+ · Book · Experience · #2145363
I will be adding stories & reflections as time marches on. Take a gander today!
#1021247 added April 14, 2022 at 2:00am
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~ All the Dreams We Lost ~

~ All the Dreams We Lost ~


Story idea:

Seventy-year old woman looking at her reflection in the mirror as she brushes her hair.

Her hair is long but she always wears it up in a messy bun of sorts.

She thinks as she brushes and we can hear her thoughts—thoughts of things that will never be:

A happy marriage...

Missed opportunities...

Lost relationships...

I can paint her dreams with my words and morn with her as she grieves her lost, never-to-be-fulfilled dreams.

Of course, the dreams are mine. As I write, perhaps new dreams will be born, dreams that still might have an opportunity to be manifested.

Moral: Late in life, as we let go of the dreams from our youth, we can still dream. We can choose to move in the direction of these new dreams and find new hope as we reach for new stars.


Written for "The Whatever Contest."

Link: "The Whatever Contest -- Closed for NowOpen in new Window.

Prompt: Write a description/synopsis of a long story or novel you would write (this is a description, not flash fiction) using one of the suggested titles which were obtained from the official NanoWrimo site.

Link: https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/adopt-a-title/1659

Chosen Title: "All the Dreams We Lost"

Word Count: 147 Words


~ ~ ~ JESUS is LORD! ~ ~ ~




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