Microdosing Fiction - 100mg of a Lullaby
Write 100 words based on the word: Lullaby
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Our prompt for today is Lullaby
Write a story in 100 words!
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Kathy woke up with a gasp, cold sweat trickling from her brow in the darkness. The mind, still plagued by the nightmare, couldn’t immediately recognize the room. It wasn’t until she felt movement on her side that the realization came. I’m in bed, Johnny’s here, I’m okay.
She lay back down, and Johnny’s fingers weaved into her hair. A wave of relief came over her when the lullaby he sometimes sang to her filled the room.
“Thank you, hon,” she said.
Her eyes began to close when she heard the toilet flushing and Johnny’s signature heavy footsteps in the hallway.
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Lullaby
100 Words
I was in luck. The house was perfect and at a price I could afford.
I toasted the house with Champagne on my first night in my new digs. It warmed, appreciative—but grew a little too hot. I turned down the heat, the rooms became icy, and the thermostat stopped working.
I burrowed under the bedcovers, shivering. The house creaked as if folding around me. That creaking morphed into a sad lullaby and then a dirge.
Midnight. Ghosts seeped from the walls, trailing past my bed—warning. Leave quickly or stay to sing with us forever.
Dixie Doyle was dry as dirt. But that was just how his listeners liked him. He’d called baseball on the radio in his somnolent style for 50 plus years. Trouble was his antiquated denizens were dying off daily like plague victims and the younger generations found the game a bore. Shockingly, his ratings somehow climbed. Dixie’s grandson showed him how to access the online comments. They were all of a theme. All from millennials and Gen-Zers. And all women! “God bless Dixie. He is the only way I can get my rugrats to sleep. That man is a walking lullaby.”