Fiction Drabbles: 100-Word Challenge Community

Title: Spelling
Challenge/Prompt: #93 - Sign
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I do not own Auslan.
Summary: She does not know when it started. 

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She sweeps her hands in parallel widening spirals, and then deftly tugs the invisible line between them taut, and a month later a hurricane flattens three towns and scars a dozen others.

She pulls a clenched fist from her chest in a short, sharp motion, like drawing a blade free from her heart, and a week later her professor staggers and falls from the lectern, gasping through blue lips.

She does not know when it started; she does not know when it will stop.

She tries finger-spelling, quickly, desperately, tremulously, and by the next day he has forgotten her name.