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The Book Thief
#WritcoStoryPrompt
Write a short story using at least three from the five prompts given:
An empty suitcase full of memories.
The messages added salt to wounds.
The car accelerated before the signal turned green.
A wardrobe full of clothes that still had their tags on.
A dust free bookcase could hide a lot of lies.

Zara loved books more than anything else in the world. She spent most of her free time reading novels, biographies, histories, and anything else she could get her hands on. She dreamed of having a library of her own someday, filled with books from floor to ceiling.

But Zara had a problem. She was poor. She lived in a small apartment with her mother, who worked as a maid for a wealthy family. They barely had enough money to pay the rent and buy food, let alone buy books. Zara had to rely on the public library for her reading needs, but even that was not enough. She wanted to own books, not just borrow them.

That's why she started stealing books. She would sneak into the mansion where her mother worked, and take one or two books from their huge bookcase. She would hide them in her backpack, and bring them home. She would read them over and over again, until she knew them by heart. Then she would return them to the mansion, and take another pair.

She thought she was...