For every daily 5-minute freewrite prompt, i will be writing on the theme: "The Empty Chair".

If you missed my last freewrites on the theme, here are the links from latest to last:-

1. The Empty Chair #5 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: Elephant]
2. The Empty Chair #4 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: Cigarettes ]
3. The Empty Chair #3 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: Cracker]
4. The Empty Chair #2 - (5 minute freewrite challenge) [prompt: Paint]
5. The Empty Chair #1- (5 minute freewrite challenge) [Prompt: hardboiled minds]

The latest Day 106 - 5 Minute Freewrite: Friday - Prompt: The smell from within.

So here i continue the "Empty Chair" trail. I hope you enjoy reading it. Thanks again to @mariannewest and ya'll freewriters who keep upvoting and sharing in this trail

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Prompt - The smell from within

Little Claire complained, but her mother rebuked her for wanting to ruin appetites.
“Bad manners!” she said, tasking her to say Grace

Everyone closed their eyes, but Claire deliberately delayed. Suddenly a sweet but vilely smell, filled the resulting silence, it could not be the Christmas buffet.

Now restrained hisses could be heard.

“Can everybody smell it?” the little girl challenged, but now she could not be ignored.
Everyone moved to rummage the house for the smell.

“It smells like rat poop” the excited and vindicated Claire declared. Rat poop? Not when the old cottage had been fumigated days earlier.

We searched anyway, the drawers, beneath the carpet, but to naught. Until little Claire pointed at the brand new couch, grandma’s Christmas gift from her mother, next to the food dish. “There!”

Now everybody rebuked her, albeit reluctantly checking out the couch. Claire was right. Beneath the couch’s new cushions was rat poop and urine. Being brand new, the fumigators had overlooked it.

Once cleaned, the air cleared. Little Claire had not ruined but saved our appetites!

“Time for grace!” she now declared, saying Grace as everyone, refuted, obeyed.

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The Empty Chair Continues ....