Woman to Woman by Cheryl Rush Cowperthwait

Prompt: New Life | Word Count: 1000 | Genre: Drama/Fantasy
” I can’t do this any more!” she screamed, competing with the booming thunder overhead. Her chest heaved as sobs racked her body down to it’s shaken core. First, her mother’s cancer diagnosis and untimely death. Then, her divorce. Divorce! The word brought up bile to her mouth. All those years, gone! But he had been clever. She hadn’t had any idea of his plans when they sold the house and relocated for his job. She had felt the unraveling, now as she looked back, but it was so subtle, so camouflaged, it was always dismissed as ‘nothing’ .

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