Kelsey followed the crowd up to the street level. “Whoa,” She gasped and gazed at the tall buildings. She’s thirteen but this wasn’t her first time away from home. In fact, it’s been a regular routine since she was ten when she got adopted by Mrs. Chetworth along with ten other kids. When she returned home the last ten times she’d gone away, no one except her sister, Susie, noticed she was gone. Susie wasn’t someone who would rat out anyone.
Kelsey crossed the road, in awe of the city scenery. I might not go back this time. She thought.
(100 words)
Each week, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple hosts Friday Fictioneers where we’re challenged to write a piece of flash fiction in 100 words, more or less, based on the picture above.
This is Another Story 
A thirteen year old girl alone on the streets of Chicago trying to survive. I’m afraid I know exactly how she’ll end up.
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Well, sometimes great things can happen when one is trying to survive. We’ll never know. 😉
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I hope so. Otherwise it’s a life of teenage prostitution, which happens to a lot of runaways, both girls and boys.
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That’s a scary outcome.
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I hope she goes back. Friday Fictioneers is a harsh place on the streets. Our main characters come to sticky ends! Good take on the prompt, Yinglan.
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Haha! I hope she goes back too even though she does sound like an adventurer.
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I hope she does go back to get Suzie! Very clever little girl! Cute story!
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I hope so too. Thank you for reading.
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Sounds like Kelsey is a city girl! She loves the city so much she doesn’t want to leave it! Great story!
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It sure does. 🙂 Thank you for reading.
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She apparently has no idea of the predators out there looking for girls exactly like her. . . .
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Apparently not…
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This does not bode well. I ‘m not sure I want to know what happened next.
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Who knows, it might go the other way.
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There is a lot of pain between the lines of this story. I am afraid it is also behind a lot of runaways. I hope she finds a safe place before the city destroys her.
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I felt for her when I wrote the story because I used to have those thoughts myself when I was young but I never had the guts to carry through. I too hope she finds a safe place in the city because the city is a dog-eat-dog world.
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Oh no! She’s too young to fend for herself – I hope she goes home!
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Maybe she’s more courageous than she looks.
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Sad and so real. Great take.
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Thank you. 🙂
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