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Today’s prompt is a short one, which left me with plenty of room for interpretation! As you might know I’ve been struggling with plotting my sci-fi novel, and since shorts like this one are perfect for a quick brainstorm I used today’s prompt to do just that! Dena owns a gun she calls Echo, and while I don’t think this short scene will make it into the book it was fun to play around with it.

As always, if the prompt speaks to you feel free to borrow it. If you do please link back here, I’d love to read your interpretation!

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Comfort

Holding her now – feeling the cold, smooth surface under my fingertips – was all the comfort I needed. Echo and I had been through a lot together, and I was relieved that we got to finish it as one, too.

I took aim, and reminded myself to breathe. I had killed so many times during my too-long life, but this was different. This death would matter. This death would shift the balance.

I exhaled as I shot. Echo’s bullet hit its target only a second later, and I watched as the man I had hunted for five hundred years slumped into a heap on the floor. It was finally over…

… and instead of relief or happiness I felt nothing.

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