Dorry’s Claim: 50 Word & Six Sentence Story Thursday

Chel Owens

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“It wasn’t fair that Dorry couldn’t get her hopes up.” – Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts – Kate Racculia

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Old Reliance had seen better: better waters, better days; frankly, better owners. The same could be said of Dorry; feet swinging over the murky Mississippi, frayed cut-offs brushing against Reliance‘s rusted hull, matted clumps of curls sticking to her dirty brow.

It wasn’t fair that Dorry couldn’t get her hopes up, seeing as she never learned what hope was. Come to think of it, she’d never learned much of anything except to not drown and not get beaten.

No matter; things would be different, starting that morning.

Dorry rose, stood against the sweaty sky, declared, “I claim Reliance as m’own!,” and washed her hands of the man floating downriver forever.

©2020 Chelsea Owens

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PROMPT WORD:  CLAIM

36 thoughts on “Dorry’s Claim: 50 Word & Six Sentence Story Thursday”

      1. ‘dialecting’is tricky but it does add authenticity to a piece as in Huck Finn, Trainspotting or James Kelman’s ‘How Late It Was’; the danger is that it can drift for the reader into unintelliigibility

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