This week I am writing an additional blog post because I have been challenged.  Challenged to write a short story using a starting prompt.

The challenge – 

• Start with the partial sentence below
• Create a short story by adding to the sentence 
• Post the story on your blog
• Share my post with you and to the link party below.  You can find more stories like mine at the party.

So here it goes!!

She closed the book she was reading and turned out the light.

As the darkness enveloped her, she heard the thunder in the distance.  The emotions flood her as she remember another night like this. 

It was a night like this when she heard she children scream for the very last time.  Oh how she longs to hold them in her arms, to kiss their soft hair.  She is alone with her sorrow because even the man she loved for years has gone.  He can no longer stand to look at her.

She weeps but her grief soon turns to anger.  It was a night like this when the monster, with its blurry vision and bourbon breath, slurs a goodbye to its friends and gets in the car.  She hates the monster and its deadly machine.  The machine that took away her life as she knew it.  Why had she survived?  Why does she suffer the pain every night like this.

Her hand moves to her face where she touches that ugly scar.  The scar that reminds her of that horrible night.  She remembers the sounds – the crunching metal, the shattering glass, the sirens in the distance.  And she remembers the pain – she cannot move as the anguish rushes over her because her children are silent.  She weeps again.

Why, oh why on a night like this, did she get into that car?  Why did her friends let her drive?  And why…in her drunken stupor, did she veer off the road and hit the pole.  The pole that would change her life FOREVER.

I hope you enjoyed this little story.  If you did, please share!  And if you want to write your own, click on the link above and join the party!!