Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. Each Tuesday, at 9:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from one of the Interweb’s many royalty-free image sites. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines.
Our photo prompt:
It was the absolutely worst thing she could have been told about her developmentally delayed baby girl and the pediatrician sat patiently by, as she sobbed, before telling her about the definitive test he’d planned.
He highly suspected a rare untreatable cancer that had been growing in Hallie’s brain even before her birth 8 months ago.
Unable to eat or sleep she waited for the call from the lab and when she grabbed the phone on the first ring, she nearly tore it from the wall before hearing the words she’d prayed for, “We’re happy to report that the test was negative. There’s no sign of cancer.”
Hallie’s Mommy weightlessly walked out of her front door and straight down the middle of the highway -shedding all her desperate and dark “What ifs?” along the way -as there would be nothing that could ever paralyzingly frighten her again, like those expectations of losing her baby.
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Oh my, you’ve written this with real emotions. 👍🏼😇
Can’t imagine anything more torturous! Thanks, Sadje!
Very true. Nothing comes close.
So sad, every parents nightmare when their child is ill.
Absolutely! Thanks.
Wow! I don’t have kids, but remember how I felt when we thought we were going to lose Maggie. Sadly for one reason or another, the last couple of years were very hard on her.
😢 Our beloved pets can break our hearts too. Been there. Thanks. ❤
Thanks Susan. They can, and when we lose them, they leave such a hole.
Lovely write the Four Line Fiction. So emotional words use in.
It was heartfelt. Thanks. ❤
Yes, you are right heartfelt 💓💘
Great story … so much power.
Much appreciated! 😊
Wow, powerful, emotional. You bring the reader along through the anxiety and relief. Well done.
Big thank-you! 😁