RXC- Her Empty Home

(RXC- Reena’s Xploration Challenge) I give you a line which can be used anywhere in your piece. The idea of a first line or last line becomes too restrictive.

You can break it up, but you cannot insert or skip words in between. Well, we do need some conditions. 

She’d forgiven everyone and emptied her home of all that gave it meaning.

For years this place had been her comfort and her cage.

She had become a mother in this building, gave birth screaming bloody murder right in this bedroom. Had created not just his life, her perfect, precious boy but her own life as a wife and mother.

She had turned this cold, damp building into a home; one she tried desperately to fill with love and light.

But nothing she ever did was good enough.

Her light was squashed and dimmed, bullied and beaten out of her by…