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For Lilli's Microfiction Challenge
#1036318 added August 9, 2022 at 9:17pm
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At 451 Degrees (Prompt 7)
Flames curled up the sides of the furniture, catching pages in their grip, crushing them to ash. Every fiber of her being begged her to run, to abandon what was already lost, but she didn't move. She couldn't move. Her entire life was evaporating, burning before her eyes. Gone with the smell of kerosene matches.

There was a man watching her burn. A Fireman, standing apart from the rest, his eyes trained on hers. Amidst the inferno around her, she saw them spark. Understanding, perhaps, or fear. But, as everyone knows, it only takes a spark to start a fire.

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