'Times' triptych
Title: Times triptych
Prompt: Choices, choices...
Words: 3 x 100
Points: The Witches
1. William doesn’t remember there ever being a choice. Or else it was all choices: every day a tiny decision (Read in the library instead of going out to games practice! Be good at Maths and spelling instead of football and cricket! Fail to pick on the first-years or bully the servants!) taking him further and further away from who he was supposed to be. Despite what his mother and sisters might say, it’s not as though he deliberately set out not to be his father’s son.
Well, not until the day he did. And that was when things got interesting...
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2. Otto has to make his choice over and over again, every single day. Oh, he’s made his peace with it, never misses it really, and he fills his time with friends and art and music and occasional delightful outings with the nice young lady who plays the harmonium. And every day it gets easier: easier to live with the constant thump and tremble, with the imperceptible whisper of Mr de Worde loosening his necktie, and the little hollow at the base of Miss Crippslock’s throat -
Otto has to make his choice every night as well, and sometimes that’s the problem.
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3. Sacharissa knows that she made her choice the day she took off the apron and picked up the notebook. The girl in the mirror is someone else now, someone brighter and harder than she’d ever have believed possible. ‘A right little madam’, Grandmother would call her if she were alive today, but when people call Sacharissa ‘Madam’ these days, they ___ing well smile. The husband, the big house and the pretty clean children, they’re not what she wants anymore even if she could still get them. She wants something different, and even if it never comes, she’s happier this way.
Prompt: Choices, choices...
Words: 3 x 100
Points: The Witches
1. William doesn’t remember there ever being a choice. Or else it was all choices: every day a tiny decision (Read in the library instead of going out to games practice! Be good at Maths and spelling instead of football and cricket! Fail to pick on the first-years or bully the servants!) taking him further and further away from who he was supposed to be. Despite what his mother and sisters might say, it’s not as though he deliberately set out not to be his father’s son.
Well, not until the day he did. And that was when things got interesting...
* * *
2. Otto has to make his choice over and over again, every single day. Oh, he’s made his peace with it, never misses it really, and he fills his time with friends and art and music and occasional delightful outings with the nice young lady who plays the harmonium. And every day it gets easier: easier to live with the constant thump and tremble, with the imperceptible whisper of Mr de Worde loosening his necktie, and the little hollow at the base of Miss Crippslock’s throat -
Otto has to make his choice every night as well, and sometimes that’s the problem.
* * *
3. Sacharissa knows that she made her choice the day she took off the apron and picked up the notebook. The girl in the mirror is someone else now, someone brighter and harder than she’d ever have believed possible. ‘A right little madam’, Grandmother would call her if she were alive today, but when people call Sacharissa ‘Madam’ these days, they ___ing well smile. The husband, the big house and the pretty clean children, they’re not what she wants anymore even if she could still get them. She wants something different, and even if it never comes, she’s happier this way.