Romance – November 20

A dreary stillness broods o’er all the vale,
The clouded Moon emits a feeble glare;
Joyless I seek the darkling hill and dale,
Where’er I wander Sorrow still is there.

– Thomas Chatterton, born this date in 1752.

Writing prompt: Write the scene in which your protagonist first fails to pull off something s/he has been faking successfully since s/he was a child.

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