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prompt five | E N D I N G S dressing-room style. start your own thread. tag others. wash, rinse, repeat. open to all.

 

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[befallen]

Once, [ Esther says as simply as if she was acknowledging the weather. She'd held her baby in her arms for ten minutes, weeping, before the doctor had insisted that's enough now and then sedated her to make her stop screaming.

If she thinks about it, she can remember the weight of him in her arms, can remember how he'd been so very light. Too little for the this world.

(She doesn't think about it.) ] Just once.

[oppose]

[ For an instant, Lu seems to falter, caught between regret that he brought the subject up at all and something else that he can't quite put his finger on. (He remembers the day, remembers her screams and remembers feeling, for once, incredibly powerless.)

More rhetorically than not: ] It isn't the kind of love that comes along often.