“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” - George Orwell, 1984

Be sure to place the link for your completed story in the comments section of this post so we can find it. If you are late in posting, placed the link in both the comments section of the prompt, and the comments section of the current prompt, but please tag it as a late comer.

You might consider making your own TP icon to announce your story as such. Readers watch for this and will respond.

If you do to participate in the Thursday Prompt remember that is good form to read your fellow participants. If you wish to give a critique, ask if the writer wishes one and then send it along in a private note.

Always remember; we are all writers together.

I have chosen this week’s prompt rather than use the random word generator because it is a word every writer begins with. It is that empty equation within their mind which cries out to be answered and yet has no solid response: if