Year 2: John is a toddler. He sucks his thumb, which his mother finds endearing as opposed to cumbersome. They live quietly, though the country is in unrest about the ongoing war overseas. His mother has decided to find a job, and John spends time with his grandparents now too. There hasn’t been any word from his father for several months and his mother is often quiet when the subject of him comes up.
Jessica Becker
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I really like the understatement in “his mother is often quiet when the subject of him comes up”. It sounds very sad. Conveys a lot with a few words. I would have liked to hear a bit more about John when he was two. Maybe in later posts you could give him some traits that will show up later as an adult, or an early experience that made him like or fear or dislike something as an adult, or explain something he does later?
You manage to say a lot in very few words, that’s excellent.