Day Seventeen: Your Personality on the Page

Today’s Prompt: We all have anxieties, worries, and fears. What are you scared of? Address one of your worst fears. My grandmother suffers from dementia and memory loss. My mother also forgetting things. Is my faulty memory a forewarning?

Today’s Twist: Write this post in a style distinct from your own. I tend to write in long sentences with subordinating conjunctions. This is written in an additive style with coordinating conjunctions such as “and.” 

She looks at the slip of paper in her wallet. What does this number mean? Clearly it is a phone number — three digits, blank space, four digits. But whose number? Why did she write it down.

She returns the slip to her wallet and walks to the kitchen. She starts cooking dinner and runs to the basement to get something.

She stares at the shelves of food: canned beans, boxes of cereal, tins of sardines, bags of flour and rice, jars of olives and pickles. What was it she wanted? She shakes her head and goes back to the kitchen.

She looks at the pot on the stove and realizes she needs an onion. Back to the basement she goes to retrieve the onion.

Dinner is done. She goes upstairs and remembers she left her phone on the front hall table. She goes to get the phone but it is not on the front hall table. It is on the kitchen counter by the stove.

She goes upstairs to plug it in. The dog follows her. She looks at him and leads him back downstairs to let him out to pee. But when she gets downstairs, she goes to the living room to turn off the light and goes back upstairs to bed.

The dog stands by the door looking at her retreating back.