Writing Prompt

This is no made-up story , but an actual part of my life that happened recently.

Joseph we will call him , Joseph used to be my best friend and we were literally inseparable , we did absolutely anything together and absolutely nothing apart. It all started the first day of school around middle school , it was a new school , new teachers which I was kinda afraid of since i came from a nuns’ school ...

Alex awoke as Amy was cooking breakfast, Alex went about the morning routine ablutions. After getting ready for the day ahead he sat down for breakfast during which Amy hands him an envelope saying this came for you, upon opening it, he looked sad, Amy enquires what’s wrong? Alex responded they’ve posted me to a ship. Amy replies makes a change from being desk bound.Alex says this isn’t how I thou...

Suddenly my feet were paralyzed. Every cell in my body ached to run. Run until I was so lost, implosion became imminent. How else would I become whole again? He was my lungs. The space between heartbeats. A small sob escaped my lips as I looked down at the box clutched in my bruised hands. A tiny glass penguin wearing a plaid purple jacket. Two concert tickets with matching coffee stains. My eyes ...

I put the car in park and let my forehead fall against the steering wheel. The engine ticks softly beneath the silence, a hollow sound that fills the space she used to. My hands are still shaking. My chest is still heavy. I can still hear her—her voice breaking through the night, her scream cutting through me like glass. She cried until her voice cracked, until all that came out were broken breath...

All the years we put into this,

I have to release you.

The one who’ve become my favorite being,

have turned into a stranger.

Leaving you has been the hardest and most self enduring thing I’ve ever had to do.

The choice of choosing you over myself was a choice that I’ve been afraid to make after choosing you for so long.

The nights we shared, the memories, the tough times we endured, the li...

Teak loved the beach. Playing in the sand, getting sunburnt, boogie boarding on the waves, but this came to an end. Unfortunate events made Teak lose his love for the beach, even though he had once grown a deep attachment to it from childhood. Goodbye fond memories. For now all Teak saw was loss. Loss of his home, swept away by ocean waves, which left nothing behind but remnants of the structure. ...

Leaving someone you love is the hardest thing you’ll ever do in your life, especially if your in you’re younger years, but it will make you a stronger person by the end of it....

What does does it feel like to abandon yourself? David asked.

Numb she said.

The feeling is so profound it’s too hard to process. On the surface it appears like you’re okay, happy even, but inside there’s nothing. Only emptiness. But when you stop you realise the emptiness is sadness. A deep pervasive sadness. Because you’ve lost yourself. It’s incredibly lonely.

I’m sorry.

Me too....

I took a glimpse of myself in the mirror, and how depressing that was. Like the sun at sunrise my blond curls fell on my shoulder, perfectly. Impeccable. Adorning oh so sweetly my face, so I can sit pretty in pink and tulle and a dress made to fit me as if sculpted by an artisan into marble.

I dont know when it was that I felt the first chill run down my back as she played with my hair, or when t...

The treasure chest had been sitting at the foot of my twin bed for 17 years, unopened. The large box - black with antiquated gold hinges and secured by a heavy Master padlock - contained the contents of the three years following my father’s passing.

Now, 20 years later to the day, I kneeled before it, key in hand, ready to do the unthinkable.

My father was a quiet man of few words but with estab...