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One Step Forward
Mar. 11th, 2011 03:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terabientTitle: One Step Forward
Challenge/Prompt: #94, Journey
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: The first step is the hardest.
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I didn't tell my parents where I was going. It wasn't necessary. They'd just say it's a bad idea, and I had made up my mind: I was going down. Explaining why would only confuse them and frustrate me.
There was nobody at the sinkhole, and the temporary guardrails had collapsed. I walked to the edge of the hole. The bright summer sunlight beamed into the chasm, only to be swallowed by its darkness. I couldn't see the bottom, or guess how far it reached - not that it mattered.
I stepped forward and fell off the face of the earth.
Challenge/Prompt: #94, Journey
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: The first step is the hardest.
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I didn't tell my parents where I was going. It wasn't necessary. They'd just say it's a bad idea, and I had made up my mind: I was going down. Explaining why would only confuse them and frustrate me.
There was nobody at the sinkhole, and the temporary guardrails had collapsed. I walked to the edge of the hole. The bright summer sunlight beamed into the chasm, only to be swallowed by its darkness. I couldn't see the bottom, or guess how far it reached - not that it mattered.
I stepped forward and fell off the face of the earth.