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How Jane Celebrated Her 50th
RWDouble Drabble 2.0.135
Today’s drabble challenge twist is that it must be based on the image prompt shown below.
A double drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 200 words. No more. No less.
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Jane wanders through the city for hours, gazing awestruck at all the changes.
The streets are quiet and most of the shops are shuttered and locked.
Not that it matters, because Jane prefers to visit the botanical gardens, lying flat beneath the shadows of oaks that have grown into giants since she was here.
Passing through many of her favourite haunts, she replays every special memory that’s kept her yearning to return.
But she’s not the person she was when she called this place home. And she’ll certainly never live here again, even if she wanted to.
The town hall clock strikes 3. Time to check in. Walking up the well-worn steps into the lobby, the hotel is as old and faded as she is.
