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Monday Microfiction: "When Prayers Fail"
- Jennifer Peaslee
- Nov 17
- 1 min read
This week's microfiction is a 150-word story about sisterly love.
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When Prayers Fail
During the hours that Mabel and I spend in the waiting room, I recite prayers under my breath, trying to trust the Lord. Yet the memory of Ida’s broken face makes my faith waver.
When the surgeon comes, his dour visage informs us before he speaks a word. Sobbing, I collapse into my living sister’s arms and feel Mabel tremble.
When I look up, the doctor has departed, made uncomfortable by the excessive emotion of women.
“What will we do?” I’m hardly able to choke out the words.
Mabel looks me in the eyes and grasps my hands. “We avenge our sister.” Her face burns with righteous anger against Ida’s murderer, a man who has slipped through the fingers of the law repeatedly.
“How?”
She retrieves from her pocket a small glass bottle of laudanum. I stifle a gasp.
“In his whiskey,” she whispers. “God will forgive us our trespasses.”
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