WRITING OBSTACLE

Change

Fire

Grief

Using these three words, explain in first person why your character had to run away from their hometown.

Change. Fire. Grief.

His image was everywhere in town; I needed to leave. For days and days, I lied in bed dreaming he was still here. But he was not. Zane was dead, and there was nothing that could bring him back. For a change, I moved to a small town in Maine. Everything here is quiet and peaceful; there are no reminders of Zane. One foggy and cold night, I was forced to start a fire to keep warm in my small house. I came across Zane’s old letters to me and I broke. It felt like I was stabbed once again by Grief and was left to die bleeding. My hands were not my own when I threw the letters into the fire. Change; I was looking for change and I achieved it. But maybe I didn’t want to change. Maybe I didn’t want to burn his letters. And maybe I didn’t want to stop grieving.
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