Writing Prompt #130:
‘I’ve got writers block again.’
‘No you don’t just start writing.’
‘And now I’m hearing voices.’
Writing Prompt #130:
‘I’ve got writers block again.’
‘No you don’t just start writing.’
‘And now I’m hearing voices.’
Writing Prompt #499: He never gave up wishing they would find a way to make it work but she knew she never could.
I short poem with interesting structure.
I’ve made some bad decisions
I’ve done things
I’m not proud of
And wish I could change
But those choices
Have made me, me
If you’re going to point
Out my weakness
My flaws
Then do it
With loving sincerity
Because the last thing
I need
Is you laughing
In my face
Or reminding me
That at one point in time
I’ve failed
I don’t care who you are
A friend
A lover
A family member
If you bring up my failures
With a smile on your face
Just for today
I’ll allow myself
Just for today,
I hate you.
A story exploring the fear of darkness with a creepy twist at the end justifying the fear.
Response to Writing Prompt #349
You’re scared of the dark.
It’s cool, so is everyone else. But no, yours is more than just an irrational fear. It plagues and haunts your every move. You refuse to be in the dark, god forbid you have to enter a dark room. All lights have to be on in your presence. Most people think you’re just cautious.
You also have a strange way of turning on lights. You never enter a room first. You allow your hand to guide you, flipping the switch before stepping past the threshold. You wait another moment before actually going inside. People watch you do this. You seem methodical and almost robotic. Everyone thinks you’re slightly strange but are amused. They leave you alone to your antics and no one questions it.
You’re always worried that someone will pin point the why. But how could they? Everyone’s a little strange.
Turns out you’re…
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Writing Prompt #129:
‘Who is she?’
‘No one knows.’
‘Should we follow her?’
‘Probably not.’
‘I want to anyway.’
Writing Prompt #498: It only took until the leaves had fallen for him to fall for her but she wouldn’t love him back until she was released from her promise.
Writing Prompt #128:
‘Why would you want to go all the way up there?’
‘Because it’s where I came from.’
Writing Prompt #497: It didn’t matter how loud he screamed they were surrounded by fields and no one would ever hear him.
Writing Prompt #127:
‘Are you sure this is the way to fairy land?’
‘Well it will be in about five minutes.’
Writing Prompt #496: She worked every day but still barely made ends meet but she never let her children starve.
Writing Prompt #126:
‘So according to your theory the moon is a giant camera spying on us.’
‘Yep and we are all just part of a giant experiment.’
Writing Prompt #495: He had nowhere to go, his only escape was the small battery radio beside his bed.
Writing Prompt #125:
‘What are you doing?’
‘Looking for the brick that just comes out.’
Writing Prompt #494: She never forgot her first time, the hiss and thunk of an arrow hitting its intended target.
Writing Prompt #124:
‘What do you see out there?’
‘Freedom.’
Writing Prompt #493: He just made it up as he went along, telling the best story of his life, which was just as well since his life depended on it.
Writing Prompt #123:
‘You missed again.’
‘And I’m out of bullets.’
‘Just let him drown, he’ll never make it to shore from out here.’
Writing Prompt #492: Her heart was beating so hard she thought her ribs would break.
Writing Prompt #122:
‘Is she okay?’
‘She’s enchanted.’
‘Not again.’
‘Just help me get her inside.’
Writing Prompt #491: The backseat of the taxi smelled of smoke and greasy fast food making him want to gag.
Writing Prompt #121:
‘Those are dragon eggs?’
‘Only one of them.’
‘But it’s tiny.’
‘Yeah well they grow a lot.’
Writing Prompt #490: She looked like a woman but she was still a kid and didn’t know how much trouble she was getting herself into pretending to be grown up.
Writing Prompt #120:
‘The view is beautiful.’
‘We chose the perfect time.’
Writing Prompt #489: The ladder was just out of reach above him and after a while he gave up jumping at it and slumped down on the cold damp bottom of the well.
Writing Prompt #119:
‘They will all regret what they did to me.’
‘You’re just proving them right about you.’
‘I’m the monster they made me.’
Writing Prompt #488: They swayed together and said ‘I love you’ for the first time on the dance with a cover band playing bad music in the background.
Writing Prompt #118:
‘I don’t want to.’
‘But you will fight him.’
Writing Prompt #487: The neon hell he found himself in was not what he expected to wake up to, he expected clouds or even flames, not being in hospital and definitely not being alive.
Writing Prompt #117:
‘I’m scared.’
‘We’re going to be okay.’
Writing Prompt #486: She knew she should leave when he told her to celebrate with him after he spent all their money on alcohol but she couldn’t.
Writing Prompt #116:
‘This is where the witches meet.’
‘Are you sure?’
‘Yes.’
Writing Prompt #485: He was a whole new kind of sad, he’d never felt this kind of paralysing kind of emotion before.
Writing Prompt #115:
‘It will be harder for them to track us in the river with the dogs.’
‘Yeah but won’t they expect us to use it.’
‘Yes but they won’t know where we get out.’
Writing Prompt #484: It wasn’t like she hadn’t been there before, she knew how this place worked, she knew how to act and what she had to do to survive.
Writing Prompt #114:
‘It’s all gone, the whole town.’
‘Except the tree on the hill.’
‘Yeah well a whole lot of good that’s going to do us.’
Writing Prompt #483: He was just a poor boy, being poor did not make him a criminal.
Writing Prompt #113:
‘I can’t believe we climbed that skyscraper.’
‘I can’t believe we didn’t get caught.’
Writing Prompt #482: She left her home and her family before she had become a woman, it wasn’t her choice.
Writing Prompt #112:
‘Are you warm enough?’
‘Always, I told you I don’t feel the cold I’m a dragon.’
Writing Prompt #481: In the company of strangers he made the most fascinating discoveries about himself, who he was and what he could become.
Writing Prompt #111:
‘Who are those for?’
‘You.’
‘Why thank you.’
Writing Prompt #480: She was running, scared they would hear her in the quiet of the railway station after midnight.
Writing Prompt #110:
‘Where are you?’
‘You were late.’
‘You were supposed to wait.’
‘You need to get out of there.’
‘It’s a bit late for that now but I’ll do my best.’
Writing Prompt #479: He liked to follow her where the other ragged people went when they needed things, she went for other reasons.
Writing Prompt #109:
‘Come with me sailor.’
‘Anywhere.’
Writing Prompt #478: The police were looking for the places that only she and others like her would know about because they had lived there all their lives.
Writing Prompt #108:
‘Go through there and you’ll be in a whole new world.’
‘Yeah right.’
‘Go through and prove me wrong then.’
Writing Prompt #477: They cut him until he cried out, he was ashamed and angry with himself from showing they were getting to him.
Writing Prompt #107:
‘Are you okay?’
‘I seem to be but I remember falling asleep in bed then I woke up here.’
Writing Prompt #476: The slightly built girl was leaving but the fighter still remained where he’d fallen after attacking her minutes earlier.