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fiction_drabblesTitle: Black swan
Challenge/Prompt: #15 Future
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Sarah
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: Some things are impossible to measure.
Author's Notes: Companion piece to Her Father the Writer. According to Nassim Taleb's theory, "black swans" are rare events beyond the realm of normal expectation.
Her father will die when she's eleven, in a car accident on his way to pick her up from school for the first time in her life. Her mother will not let her go to the funeral, will dispose of his belongings with the ruthlessness and fury of a woman scorned by her own child. For years, all Sarah will have left of her father is a picture, behind glass smudged by fingerprints and tears.
But right now Sarah is only ten, and unaware that her father comes into her room every night just to make sure she is still there.
Challenge/Prompt: #15 Future
Original Fiction
Characters/Pairings: Sarah
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Mine.
Summary: Some things are impossible to measure.
Author's Notes: Companion piece to Her Father the Writer. According to Nassim Taleb's theory, "black swans" are rare events beyond the realm of normal expectation.
Her father will die when she's eleven, in a car accident on his way to pick her up from school for the first time in her life. Her mother will not let her go to the funeral, will dispose of his belongings with the ruthlessness and fury of a woman scorned by her own child. For years, all Sarah will have left of her father is a picture, behind glass smudged by fingerprints and tears.
But right now Sarah is only ten, and unaware that her father comes into her room every night just to make sure she is still there.