Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

by Alexa ♥

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Sarah Todd had always been psychic. Nobody thought anything of it at first. When she was 5, she’d known her mother was about to say that Nana had died, but her parents willfully mistook her paranormal intelligence for an extraordinary perception.

However that night when she was 14, everything changed.

Everything.

“Sarah!” Mrs. Todd scolded, hearing her daughter step downstairs. “You should be in bed. You have school in the morning.”

“I won’t be going,” Sarah replied, seeming unusually forlorn, even for her.

“What?”

“You’re not going to send me,” Sarah tried again.

“Some sort of Jedi mind control attempt?” Mrs. Todd almost laughed.

“No,” Sarah rushed forward, crying, into Mrs. Todd’s arms.

“Sarah? What’s wrong?”

“Daddy,” Sarah weeped. “He died in a fire at the warehouse.”

“Oh sweetie, you must’ve had a bad dream.”

“Really bad,” Sarah agreed.

The phone rang, and both tensed. Good news never calls after midnight.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

    Alexa ♥'s Buddy Icon Alexa ♥

    Posted 12 months ago

    I have written several Ficlets with Sarah as a character, but it is Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars who brought her to life, named her, decided she would be psychic, and new to the town of Nain Rouge (which King Tarzan also invented).

  2. Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 12 months ago

    Great last line. Nice little story.

  3. Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

    One Time, One Chance's Buddy Icon One Time, One Chance

    Posted 12 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I agree with THX – “Good news never calls after midnight.” although my friends seem to spontaniously wake up at midnite to call me, the average person doesn’t get to many fone calls at midnite.
    VEry niCE=]

  4. Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

    SKermitgorf's Buddy Icon SKermitgorf

    Posted 12 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    great dialouge, one of your best.

  5. Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

    SKermitgorf's Buddy Icon SKermitgorf

    Posted 12 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    I like that the challenges are often our best ficlets. The one that was featured of mine and my personal favorite( of mine lol) is Get a Job, which was a challenge by artistsrunwild.

  6. Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

    blueyedwonder's Buddy Icon blueyedwonder

    Posted 11 months ago

    nice! this is exactly the sort of thing. and very nice implications at the end, leaves us dreading the inevitable and questioning the possibility of a different outcome :)
    ♥
    oh and yeah, PLEASE everyone vote!!!!!

  7. Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

    Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars' Buddy Icon Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars

    Posted 11 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Great job, Alexa. I love the unspoken dread at the end, and that Sarah’s powers are more of a curse than a blessing. Also, Sarah has a last name! You don’t know how excited that makes me! I created her and I never ever bothered to ask her last name!

  8. Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

    Alexa ♥'s Buddy Icon Alexa ♥

    Posted 11 months ago

    Sarah has a last name!
    ~
    She had to – I was spending too many characters on “her mother”. They were going to be the Joneses, but I’ve developed a love for short names & Todd is shorter than Jones.

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