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Today word prompt (The beginning of the story in bold) come from Melody-Ann Kaufmann and the picture is from the collection by the amazing Rayna M Iyer.
I picked them because it seemed like a brave thing to do. I had no idea if I could write a story based on the prompts, but when has that stopped me from trying?
Here goes:
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I didn’t, I almost died in there, he said, fingering the ring he’d put on my hand, April Fool was my exit strategy.