[By 2chicks2go.wordpress.com]
A Creative Writing Piece, for your thinking pleasure.
Her thoughts raced around under the headscarf, creating friction, and they were about to burst into flame. There wasn’t much time, yet there was all the time in the world. Why were there always choices and why was there really no choice to be made at all?
The phone vibrated on the table. Pick it up? Leave it?
The thought of making a firm decision propelled images across and through her mind, hurling her into panic mode: images of past mistakes.
What about the time she’d said ‘yes’, bringing him into her life, with all the resulting drama and trauma of a trashy novel?
What of the time she’d turned left, instead of right, thinking the gas station was a mere mile or two down the road, and she was wrong. Tears streaming down her face she’d driven on, into the night, needle on empty, past the vacant cottages now covered with snow. The terror that moment brought sent shivers down her spine.
What about the job offer she had declined because it was ‘too far’, ‘too hard’, but really because she was lacking the confidence to say yes?
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