My Only Choice - The A to Z Challenge - The Letter O

Blogging from A to Z Challenge
April 2016
This month I will be participating in the “Blogging from A-Z Challenge” 
What is it?

Blogging every day.  It begins on April First with a topic themed on something with the letter A, then on April second another topic with the letter B as the theme, and so on until I finish on April thirtieth with the theme based on the letter Z.   The theme of the day is the letter scheduled for that day.

This first part is a fictional piece.

"It's my only choice," he said.  

I closed my eyes and shook my head.

Ugh!  I wanted to scream at him, "Do you know what the word choice means?"

But I didn't scream.

I took a deep breath and counted to ten, as I slowly exhaled the air out of my O-shaped lips. 

"Sweetie, are you saying that you've made a decision?  Is that what you're telling me?"

He looked at me, his brow furrowed, puzzled I suppose, wondering why I would be asking that question.

"Ma, like I said it's my only choice."

Trying to maintain my composure, I said, "Honey, I thought after our talk last night you were going to be giving each of your options more serious consideration. 

"Ma, come on don't give me a hard time about this, okay?"  he said softly. 

I could feel the heat of a flush as it crept up from my neck, then to my face, warming my cheeks.   

I pushed my fingers up under my glasses and pressed them into my eyes.  I turned away. I didn't want him to see me cry. 

When I was trying to think of a post for the letter O I thought of the word oxymoron.  The results of my google search led me to a website of Oxymorons. 

I know this isn't necessary but just in case:

"An Oxymoron is a combination of contradictory or incongruous words, such as 'Cruel Kindness' or 'Jumbo Shrimp' (Jumbo means 'large' while Shrimp means 'small').

An oxymoron term is a literary figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory words, phrases, terms or ideas are combined to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means." 

The Web site has many different lists including an alphabetical one.  

Because today's letter is O, I selected the O list.  From that list, I chose "only choice". 

I've found the website to be an awful good resource for writing prompts.

Do you ever speak oxymoronically?