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Memories From Acceleration
#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.

I never remembered that day when I accelerated my car while the signal was red. I turned old and forgot about the suitcase that I had with me and also the books that were in it.
That was until I was eighty-three.
My wife was looking at the clean, dust free bookcase in the attic to find out how it was always so pretty, when she came across the two books that were in my suitcase. One was BOWLING FOR BONEHEADS, and the other was the book that I had forgotton for so many years- DIANE.
DIANE stood for Destructive Ideas And Naughty Education. She- I mean it- gave me ideas to make me angry and- yes- destructive.
DIANE was the reason I nearly went to jail.
My wife also found my suitcase. When she opened it, though, it had dust- and only dust.
Had it taken all the dust from the bookcase?
All I remember now was DIANE had this sentence:
DESTRUCTIVE IDEA NUMBER SEVENTEEN:
LEARN HOW TO MAKE AN ALIVE SUITCASE THAT EATS DUST TODAY!!!