vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
shelter

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term.

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Felethya had never realized just how sheltered she'd been until being thrown upon her own resources. Those first days had been a nightmare of hunger and cold -- so when Sarkandiv had asked her if she wanted to work for him, she hadn't thought twice. Right then she'd take anything that would give her hot meals and a warm bed to sleep in.

In retrospect, she'd been incredibly lucky. He could've been a pimp who would've let her out to an endless stream of lecherous men. He could've made her a serving-girl for hire, sending her to one house after another to do the lowest of menial work.

Instead he'd brought her into his business, where her nimble fingers had proven apt to setting type. Delighted to have someone better than the average run of printers' devils, he'd taught her the basics of editing, and was now entrusting her with ever-increasing responsibility.

Responsibility that was now putting her in the public eye. How long would it be before the family that had disowned and abandoned her would notice her new status?

[marycatelli]

complications, always complications!

Perhaps she should have gone by a new name and denied everything.