Challenge
Prose Challenge of the Month #1: Write about losing your innocence. Fifteen entries will be featured in a Prose Original Book of the Month, whereby each winner will take 5% lifetime royalties. You must purchase the book to discover its authors, who will be determined by objective data (reads, likes, reposts, comments) and by team vote to ensure reader satisfaction. When sharing to social media, please use the hashtags “itslit,” “getlit,” and “ProseChallenge.”
Programmed Child.
"My mother doesn't care what I do," I told the man. "It's as if she were strapped to the couch, eyes glued to that television."
Four days have passed and still no movement. I'm hungry. I'm angry, and i'm sad.
"Is that why you're smoking then, kid?" the man asked.
"No. It's just a thing now. Surely you've seen all the commercials," I responded with a hefty puff of smoke forming in my underaged lungs.