“That’s it!” Grinding his teeth, he hurled his creation to the ground and stomped on it until it was unrecognizable. Then he jabbed a finger at his sister, “I don’t want to hear a peep from you.”
Flabbergasted, she stuttered, “W-what did I say?”
“W-what did I say?” He mimicked. “You. Are. The spokesperson of discouragement. Every time I complete a creation, you put it down, put me down. Laugh at me, say it’ll never work. No one can succeed around you. No one!”
As he stalked away, she stood there, speechless as she stared at her brother’s mangled creation.
(100 words)
This is Another Story 
Good story and just glad that it wasn’t you that stomped on that camera. At least it looks like a camera…
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Thanks, I kept looking at the picture and it looked like a torn up version of a CD-ROM drive from a CPU to me.
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Or at torn up engine of some sort. Destruction is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. 🤓
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Good story that fits the prompt well. I have my done but plan to hold it for tomorrow.
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Thank you. 🙂
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You draw out the characters of the two siblings very adroitly. Nice writing.
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Thank you.
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Good tale. I think the brother needs to take a chill pill, or maybe he is right?
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He does sound like a high-strung kind of person but at the same time, I don’t think this was the first time she’d done this to him.
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Like that description, spokesperson of discouragment.
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Thank you. 🙂
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Apparently she had no idea of the effect she had on him. Maybe he could have found a kinder way to tell her she was a party pooper 🙂
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I guess he could’ve said it in a kinder way but I don’t think this was her first offense.
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Probably not. Sometimes we need an abrupt wake-up call, don’t we?
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Quite the tale of sibling rivalry!
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It sure is. 😄
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Very well written. I could feel his frustration. You’ve captured the relationship (or lack of it) between them 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂
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Frustration and sense of failure needs a scapegoat. You illustrated this very well.
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I think it might be because I’ve been feeling a bit of that lately. 😀
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Cheer up it was a good story.
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I like this, good story.
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Thank you.
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He sounds like an abuser to me. He mangled the machine and then blamed her.
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Or maybe he’s just got an oversized ego.
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Same difference.
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Such a shame that he took out his frustration on his sister. An excellent take on the picture.
Here’s mine!
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Thank you.
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