The problem, as she saw it, was that right when she would finally get her fingers back, and BAM!! She would find herself pregnant again, and the whole cycle of gaining and losing would start up once more. The children had to be reborn whenever they got themselves into trouble and had to leave the world, or else had been pushed out by accident ( a car crash, maybe; Cassy was once perished in a hotel fire ) or malice ( like the crisis that had claimed their lives in the seventeenth century), and Joanna would begin to feel the symptoms.
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It usually happened after she hadn't heard from her girls in a century or two. First, her gray hair would turn to blond again. She would marvel at her changed appearance, the loss of wrinkles, the fat in her cheeks, string hands that did not ache from arthritis. Then it would happen: the vomiting, the nausea, the exhaustion. And she would realise: she was pregnant!
It was like a reality split personality but in a physical form. It had happened so many times over the centuries that she had almost forgotten how many times. ALMOST...
This is a continuation free write prompt which turned into a short story novel. Perhaps, not so short anymore; anyhow hope you enjoy it. For previous prompts about the Witches of Farrenmore Heights; scroll below for each link
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Wow this story has progressed a lot @ireenchew, and getting pregnant all over if the children died is a nice twist to it, keep up your great work, it's awesome.
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Thanks @mariannewest ...
I'll be sure to claim every single one :)
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