The tangle

The tangle is a writing prompt courtesy of a Dean Writers Circle writing workshop

The tangle of emotions which played in her head might overwhelm her. Daphne scrunched further into the cushions, wanting to make herself small, a baby rabbit crouched in the furthest corner of the burrow.

What had just happened? The phone call. Until the phone call, Daphne had been contentedly getting on with her day. She had woken at her normal 7.30 am, slipped from her bed, dutifully bent and stretched for te...