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Adele, APED, divorce, Family ties, relationship, Spousal Abuse
Done for A Prompt Each Day, a daily dose of inspiration. We are to use a minimum of three words from the set of ten below to write a story or a poem.
Adele
Cascade of tears slid on to the green carpet as she hung her head in shame. For the first time she noticed how off beat the colour looked in the pristine modernity of the old man’s living room. Just like her announcement to leave her husband of six months. The word divorce didn’t just exist in the vocabulary of her family.
She could feel Papa’s piercing hurt reeking from his eyes, enveloping her in a tight hug. “I’m grateful your mother is not alive to hear this, Adele.”
Adele raised her eyes, soulful to meet his. And she felt gratified when he flinched. The bruises on her face had swelled to almost comic proportions. “Even with this, Papa, you still say that to me.”
With one fluid motion, Adele ripped off her thin creamy blouse, almost gossamer in texture, exposing her supple breasts. When her father averted his eyes, she willed him to have his fill of the lacerations zigzagging on her body in a macabre dance ritual.
Trembling, her voice croaked in a whisper. “What about you? Do you wish you were dead not to see this?”
Adele almost pitied her father now. Amidst her sobs, she saw him turn and stare at her body, disbelief and horror warring for supremacy on his now defeated face.
Copyright © Celestine Nudanu 10/06/15I appreciate your patience with me as I catch up on your blogs. Thanks a million! Shalom
Even your prose is poetic!
Sweet words, Gilly. 🙂
Celestine, it is nice to meet you here.
Your story is marvrelous.
Thank you ma’am. 🙂 Glad you came over.
What a powerful piece of writing, Celestine. I’m so impressed.
Ow, thank you Tish. 🙂
Very good story telling. It’s such a painful thing to admit such defeat. And that’s what domestic violence does to women. It defeats the joy of being woman.
Susan, thanks, especially coming from you. 🙂
Powerful!
Thank you Sumyanna.
WOW – Sad – but – powerful!
Rosy, thanks.
Oh my. That’s sad but realistic. Even these days, separations are deemed unacceptable, no matter what the reason. 😦
Celestine, a request… please use a color other than red to highlight the words 🙂 Red on orange makes for very difficult reading.
It isn’t necessary that you have to highlight them either 🙂
You are right, but I just chose to do it so. 🙂
You can just bold or italicize them then 🙂
Alright, thanks a million. 🙂
Quite welcome!
Thanks for your comment Leo. No problem about the colour red. I will change it to black. The contrast will then be much more startling. 🙂
I wanted to thank you. I’ve not heard of “A prompt each day.” I might not be able to do it every day – but it is a wonderful way to get ideas flowing. Thank you – thank you – thank you!
You write really well – by the way. I was inspired by what you wrote to try it myself.
My pleasure, dear Sumyanna. And you are doing it so beautifully 🙂 Though I may not be able to post everyday myself, I guess you could post at your convenience.
Thank you so much for the compliment. 🙂
So sad and beautifully written…familiar stories like this still make me weep.
Thank you Oliana. 🙂 I nearly did so myself when writing it. 🙂
A hard hitting tale of domestic violence and the unjust expectations from a daughter to stay put up in a marriage. Poor lady had to show her bruises to justify herself.
Kalpana, thank you for your lovely insight. 🙂
great story!
Trisha, thank you. 🙂