dVerse Poets Prosery

Here’s how to take part in Prosery:
– Write a piece of flash fiction of up to or exactly 144 words, including the given line in the order in which it has been given. You may add or change punctuation, but you may not add words in between the given ones.
– Post your Prosery on your blog and link back to this post. I would like you to write a story that includes the following line(s) from the poem by British writer Helen Dunmore:

‘…city lilacs
release their sweet, wild perfume
then bow down, heavy with rain.’

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Halls of impropriety observe the sorrowful want of woman and man forever destined to remain in their station. Outside the corridors, city lilacs release their sweet, wild perfume then bow down, heavy with rain. There are no dampened flowering bushes in these halls, only despair. A scent of hope sometimes wafts by them with an odor of old regrets, desperate dreams and the everyday nightmare of waking up in a stuporous state. Not all dreams can be realized, especially in these city halls.

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