It’s time for the second campaigner challenge via Rachael Harrie’s blog.
Here are the rules:
Write a blog post in 200 words or less, excluding the title. It can be in any format, but the blog post should include the word “imago” in the title and also include the following words: miasma, lacuna, oscitate, and synchronicity. For an added challenge (to be included in the word count) make reference to a mirror. For a greater challenge, make your post exactly 200 words.
Here is mine:
Her Imago
A gasp of air, a beating heart, and a flushed face; these are the signs of a broken girl.
She crashed onto the floor. There was a buzzing in her head followed by silence.
They met when she was a child. She’d known him her whole life. The lacuna between them was immense and uncomfortable. Most days she would dream about the father she wanted, but today all she could focus on was the floor needing a good scrub; a hands and knees job.
She tried to ignore the past, but the miasma was too much now. It was time to go.
There were rules she had in order to keep herself sane: a sharp focus on logarithms, the latest Hollywood gossip, and exercise. They always calmed her down.
Her bedroom was a prison. She looked in the mirror and oscitated. The phone rang. It was her mother asking her to move back in. The synchronicity of events amazed her.
Tomorrow she would leave. In a few years, she would be out of her house too and under her own rule.
She crawled into bed and fell asleep counting down the days towards freedom.
Thanks for reading!
