First Campaign Challenge -- Write a short story/flash fiction
story in 200 words or less. Begin the story with the words: “The door
swung open”. For added challenge end with the words: "the door swung shut" and make your story exactly 200 words.
I took on the added challenges! My response is below.
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The Door
By Dawn M.
Hamsher
The door
swung open. I took a deep breath and stepped inside. I stood on the red carpet.
I was still alive. Did I really think I’d
be struck by lightning?
My heart was
pounding as I walked down the hall. My hands clenched and unclenched. I licked my
lips over and over.
What was I thinking? Why had I come?
I wanted to
turn and run, but then I saw it. There on the altar was the cross.
I think
someone spoke to me, but I kept going.
By the time I
got to the railing and knelt, I was shaking all over. I broke down. I can’t remember
what I said or did. I just remember feeling so empty, like I had dumped 20
years of my life.
Then an arm
wrapped around me and a woman said, “He does forgive you and he wants you back.”
It’s hard to explain
what happened next. A warmth filled me and I felt what the woman was saying deep
inside my soul. All the bad stuff I had done no longer chained me down.
When I left,
I was changed. My old life was gone as the door swung shut.
