

600-word writing exercise She closed the book, placed it on the table, and finally, decided to walk through the door.600-word writing exercise by ~Eidolonkami
The room behind her was a room for waiting. She hesitated to call it a waiting room; that term implied an impatience, an unwillingness, a sense of somewhere else to be. This room had been a place of safe harbor, but also of well, nothing at all, really. A place for recovery, for readying. The door, an avatar of change and permanence that takes one out of the phase of hardship that one has been living and into the greatest of all unknown.
She had not thought that death would be like this. Waiting for it had been bad enough; months if not years o