Prompt: 045. a break out
1. She kept her head down and her eyes open. She’d been locked up too long. She was ready to break out of jail.
A. She kept her head down and her eyes open. She’d been locked up too long. She was ready to break out of jail. Her focus was on spotting an opportunity.
They were running her papers as she sat in this cell. It was only a matter of time before all the dots were connected and the security tightened.
2. This hadn’t always been their life. Brother and Sister had been real people once–before they were stolen. Brother urged Sister to remember, and spoke of breaking out of the house.
A. This hadn’t always been their life. Brother and Sister had been real people once–before they were stolen. Brother urged Sister to remember, and spoke of breaking out of the house.
She loved him and so she listened. And at night in her bed, she closed her eyes with her face uplifted to the darkness and made herself remember.
She’d had a different family once. Before she’d been given to Mother and Father. Brother had already been here when she arrived. He was the only good to have come from her time here.
3. The movie would have been forgotten if one of the actors hadn’t later become a break out star.
A. The movie would have been forgotten if one of the actors hadn’t later become a break out star. Then without a warning to the actors the movie was made available for digital streaming and the project that most of them would have happily seen buried forever was being watched and talked about.
