"Dictionary Prompt " drabbles by Tyarra Ybarrola

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Musician

Dictionary Prompt #2

Your father was a fine musician.
Out of all the instruments which his delicate hands could play, the heart strings were his favorite.

He plucked them one by one, carefully listening to each note as they reverberated in their cage. Then once knowing the key, played a melancholy tune until the strings became hard and his fingers bled.

He had no use for broken instruments, and abandoned them for some different chords. But your father never thought about the lovely sounds they could make when they crushed his wind pipe.

As you can see here, broken instruments have their purpose.

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Fighting

Dictionary Prompt #1

Terrible fighting broke out in the streets. It started with one man glancing up from the morning paper to meet the tense gaze of another. The tension drifted from stare to stare, and so on until it traveled several blocks. It drew unsuspecting passerbys out from restaurants and cars onto the roads. People pushed into parking lots and driveways with clenched fists.

A ripple of motion seized the great mob. Uncontrolled bodies clashed, smashing each other into sidewalks and walls.

As the sun peaked overhead, only a handful remained.

They were driven away by the stench of cement baked bodies.