The rat ran and he chased. Gerry wished that his sister would choose a higher class of men for dating. He was tired of having to leave the comfort of the den, to put his hands on these miscreants that Jill seemed incapable of saying “no” to when asked out on a date. He was not surprised when he returned home from administering blows to the latest low-life who tried to get too “intimate” with her to find that his own date was gone. He thought, “Being a big brother sucks!”
Fictional story written for the First Line Friday, April 23, 2021 from Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, utilizing the Three Things Challenge #578 prompts from Pensitivity 101: gone, hand, on.
Help from Heaven 
It’s hard to watch someone you care about put themselves in harm’s way.
I wrote about domestic abuse too with the First Line Friday prompt.
~cie from poetry of the netherworld~
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