White Swan

Reader prompt

All her life, Annika had wanted to dance the white swan in Swan lake.

“Not nervous,” she whispered as a single butterfly fluttered in her stomach.

The lights dropped; the music rose. Annika’s movement, from first step to her perfect death, held the audience rapt until the final, thunderous applause.

Image by Niki Dinov from Pixabay

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Thank you to Srinath for the wonderful 3 word prompt: butterfly, audience, life. There are so many directions in which I could have taken this. I hope you like the one I chose.

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