Microdosing Fiction - 90mg of a Miracle
Prompt: MIRACLE
Our prompt for today is MIRACLE
Write a story in 90 words!
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Kristy collapsed into the bed, bloodshot eyes begging for relief, the dark bags under them a reminder of the past nights. Ready for another night with the sisters of bad sleep—insomnia and nightmare.
But the perfectly chilly room kept them at bay. The warmth under the blankets let Kristy burrow deep, hiding from them in comfort. Even that annoying neighbor’s dog stopped barking, letting her mind drift beyond the veil.
Everything fell into place, and in moments, Kristy fell into a peaceful slumber. A good night’s sleep—a true miracle.
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Edward stood shakily in the delivery room. Gripping the head of the bed with white knuckles, loudly holding court, eating up all the oxygen in the room. As usual making it all about himself.
As Fern gritted her teeth and stoically delivered their gorgeous new baby daughter, the scrub nurse expressed wonder.
“A miracle. Absolute miracle.”
Edward preened. “Yes, I imagine even after as many times as you’ve seen it, childbirth is always something magical, mysterious, supernatural.”
The nurse wasn’t smiling. “No pal, I’m talking about her being with you.”
A long time ago, there was nothing. Then bang! Everything. And that everything crashed together and made stars and planets and water and air and people and animals and stuff. Then warmth and light made the long, long trip from the Sun to the Earth, and a wondrous cycle turned water into rain clouds into rain that soaked into soil churned from rock for eons, all to nourish life formed from materials that were there at the birth of the universe.
So eat the damn miracle on your plate, kid.