Microdosing Fiction - 80mg of a Morning
Write 80 words based on the word: Morning
Our prompt for today is MORNING
Write a story in 80 words!
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I open my burning eyes, fighting off the clutching grasp of sleep with my stomach upside down and twisted. The first thought is always the same: Do I need to exist today? What if I just didn’t get up?
Those thoughts are dispersed by paws drumming on the floor. The mattress bends under a four-legged shape that presses its furry body against me, sniffing and licking my face.
Reminding me that I do have a reason to rise—to live another day.
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The bed is too big now. She reaches across the sheets, fingers searching for warmth, but finds only cold. Then she remembers.
He’s gone.
The silence is suffocating.
No rustling of the newspaper, no soft chuckle at an early morning joke. Just the ticking clock, marking time without him.
She swings her legs over the edge, joints aching, heart heavier. The day stretches ahead, empty and endless.
She exhales, steadying herself.
One more day.
One more without him.
One more closer to him.
80mg of a Morning
The sky blushed as the first light touched the canyon walls.
Somewhere, another morning faded, but here—now—renewal began.
I stretched, the weight of yesterday loosening its grip.
The air smelled of earth warmed by possibility.
Morning wasn’t just time; it was motion.
A quiet unfolding.
A breath between what was and what could be.
The sun crested the horizon.
My shadow stretched long behind me.
Ahead, the path shimmered. Another step. Another morning. Always arriving.