“How many special people change?”
His walkout song, Champagne Supernova by Oasis, synced with the roar of the audience as he walked out; the song reminded him of his own metamorphosis from junkie to professional prizefighter.
“How many lives are living strange?”
Life couldn’t be any stranger than now, he thought—a year ago he was roaming the streets alone, subsiding only for the next fix; whereas, ornate tattoos covered his track scarred arms while friends, actual friends and not drug-induced figments of his imagination, screamed encouragement as he continued his march toward the cage.
“Where were you while we were getting high?”
Nobody was there until Coach found him asleep behind the gym, offered him a place to sleep with food to eat, gave him a job, and once he found his way onto the mat, the rest has been a new beginning; he hugged Coach before taking his place in the corner.
Prompted from Six-Sentence Story Word Prompt at: https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2020/11/22/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-135/.
Prompted from MMA Storytime’s Word of the Day: https://mmastorytime.com/2020/11/23/mma-storytimes-word-of-the-day-friends/.
Prompted from Fandango’s One Word Challenge at: https://fivedotoh.com/2020/11/23/fowc-with-fandango-roar/.
Prompted from Tale Weaver at: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2020/11/19/tale-weaver-302-beginnings-november-19th/.
Prompted from Word of the Day Challenge at: https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/figment/.
Excellent, Dave. Played the song while reading. Totally amped your Six.
Redemption can take some winding paths before arriving.
…”wake up the dawn and ask her why”.
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Great addition with the music. Wonderful six. I lke how you do this.
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Thank you!
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Gritty-good story of recovery.
We get by with a little help from our (real) friends…
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That was a seamless mashup. And a clever way to get oasis into the mix.
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Thank you!
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Great six! I was thinking about using the band Oasis in my story until I started searching and realized I do not know ONE SINGLE SONG by them. Who knew?
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Not one? They have at least two.
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Not one. I kept listening to them and not one sounded familiar!
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Very clever way to get Oasis into this SSS. Very smooth.
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Touching story about a saved life or maybe two saved lives.
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I like the description of friends that are not actual as “drug-induced figments of his imagination”.
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Thanks, Frank!
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