Short Story Spotlight: The Joy of Obedience

I'm always amazed by where my mind goes when I hear a writing prompt, and this was a VERY unusual one. The Joy of Obedience was inspired by the following:

Write a story inspired by this quote from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy: “In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.”

Obedience decides to escape her restrictive life, but when she spots Isaac, the leader of the compound in which she lives heading into the nearby town, her plan take an unexpected detour.

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