Microdosing Fiction - 80mg of an Exhale
Write 80 words based on the word: EXHALE
Our prompt for today is EXHALE
Write a story in 80 words!
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Inhale.
It’s funny how an oxygen bubble in your lungs can slow down the world. As soon as I took a deep breath, the trembling stopped, the vision cleared, and the world drowned out, interrupted only by the drum of my pulse. Just me and the target.
Exhale
Just as the air left my lungs, the dart left my hand. And boom. Just as it hit the target, the cacophony of manic celebrations and the pub’s noise crashed into me.
Bullseye. I won.
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Rod breathed in all life had to offer, swallowing great gulps of it like a halibut cut from the hook. Power. Cash. Mistresses. Inhaled pleasure like an industrial vacuum. Drew in heady draughts of what he deemed success.
Ironic an exhale would bring it all down.
“0.12 percent,” said the state trooper, bathed in flashing red, shaking his head at the tanned, well coiffed likeness on Rod’s license. “You trying to break this thing? Lace your fingers behind your head.”
Inhale, exhale.
Inhale. Exhale.
Try to relax.
Breath in, out.
“You’re almost there,” said the nurse.
Another wave of searing pain.
Oh my god! She squeezed the hand in hers, leaving little arcs from her nails in the flesh.
“You’re doing great, honey.” His voice an anchor, close enough to feel on her face.
Just a little more and it would be done.
“Okay, now push.”
She pushed, she bored down with all her might.
A cry was her reward.