Prompt: Coming undone | Word count: 1,200 | Genre: Fiction
Home after a long work day, Elise was sitting down at her desk to complete a complicated spreadsheet for a presentation the following week. She liked to get things done, and felt that, with only a week to go, she was already pushing the deadline beyond limits she was comfortable with.
Just out of reach of her vision, she saw – or rather sensed – a purple streak, like a hummingbird, dressed in a purple hoodie darting across her field of vision. How peculiar!
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At the office the next day, she worked through the items on her to do list in her usual efficient manner. She listened to a podcast during her morning brisk walk ‘break’ and to a literary classic during her afternoon laps. Her lunch of antioxidant salad was followed by the writing of a weekly email to her mother.