Thank you for this creative essay. You have tagged it as fiction, but it does not seem to be. No matter. We are now accepting creative nonfiction, and this is surely that. Your writing is clear and engaging. In the future, we suggest that you tag the nonfiction pieces as creativenonfiction, and the fiction pieces (short stories) as fiction. This tagging helps curators to sort the stories.

Actually this essay would have been a perfect match for our earlier creative nonfiction prompt, overcoming obstacles. We publish short story prompts on Mondays, and creative nonfiction prompts on Saturdays. Additionally, we publish a monthly prompt. However, we welcome stories/essays that are not written specifically to a prompt.

We appreciate that you engage with other authors in the community and look forward to reading more fiction and nonfiction pieces from you.