Microdosing Fiction - 80mg of a Hearth
Write 80 words based on the words: HEARTH
Our prompt for today is HEARTH
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The wooden planks creaked under Dorian’s feet, hands shaking. He looked around the empty inn.
Instead of the usual music, there was a deafening silence. Only ghosts and shadows were left at the often full tables.
The ever-warm heart was dead and cold, as were all the buildings in the village.
Dorian’s knuckles whitened around the crumbling parchment. An antidote, a solution to the plague, was in his grasp.
Alas, he had returned far too late.
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Wood burning stoves in both the kitchen and the living room did their job well, but it was not the same.
He remembered when family gathered around a large table to be served their dinner from a large, bubbling pot of soups or stews made with plenty of potatoes to stretch a meager amount of meat.
Afterwards, they would sit around the blazing hearth to play the fiddle and sing the auld songs.
Ah, how he missed his lovely Irish homeland.
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80mg of Hearth(without title word count:80)
Leaving the Hearth, Rebuilding the Heart
I left the hearth not with certainty but with ash still on my skin. My heart stuttered, hungry for more than warmth—craving shape, craving truth. What cracked open wasn’t just walls but silence. I carried the ember. Rebuilt not with brick, but breath. A hearth can be mobile. A heart can hold fire. And when both collapse, I learn again: home is not a place. It’s pulse. It’s rhythm. It’s the light I refuse to snuff out, even in exile