Saturday Centus #53

Jenny Matlock hosts this weekly meme. Thank you! J

Her challenge to participants is to use the prompt and up to 100 more words to produce a piece of writing in any style. Click here to read more and perhaps be inspired to join in! The prompt is in red italics.

Miss Morrison, the singing teacher at Mabberley School, was overwhelmed when the school came first in the choir festival. All her hard work, the hours of practising, the tears, the tantrums – the children’s, too – had garnered recognition but now she faced her biggest challenge – a live interview on national television. 

Her hands were clammy, her knees knocked together, a huge lump in her throat threatened to stifle her but she must be brave. She thought of the late Diana, a heroine of hers, and wondered what she might have said. She smiled, drew in a deep breath and said, ‘I'd like to teach the world to sing . . .'

(99 words, excluding the prompt)