Writing Prompt

It always came down to time. It never seemed to be enough. In one day you could do so many things, yet by the end of it I found myself seeking more. Was that greedy?

To seek fulfillment in every second. Was that even possible in this world? Was it a useless journey?

Pained flowed from my shoulder my body crashing forward into the gravel. Gravel digging into my knees jolted my mind. In any other...

“Okay class, today we are doing physical assessments. This will include the pacer test, rope climbing, sit ups, push ups, and a grip test. Now we will have 15 minutes of stretches before we start. I will be dividing you into groups of 6 so there will be 5 groups. Each group will have 10 minutes at each station and then will rotate,” Mrs. Nelson held up her clip board and flip two pages before star...

"Rock-a-bye baby, please don't you cry. Mommy and daddy have to say goodbye" She whispered, choking on the last couple words as tears ran fast down her cold, numb face.

"Close your eyes, sweet baby girl, and say goodnight. Mommy will see you in your dreams"

The infants chubby fingers were wrapped tightly around her mothers long, thin fingers.

"Jen, we have to go! She won't be safe if we stay an...

“I’ll go and have a look in the back”, he spoke with a somewhat deadened tone. I suspected he was medicating his way to the end of his shift. I watched as he trundled away…my mind blank…I looked back at the black, blue, red and grey kettles and heard the click of lights switching off. I realised I was the only one left, standing feckless by shining new kettles as the grand hall of consumer goods s...

It all happened some cold winters day in mid December I think. I was just eating pasta from Luigi’s the kind with the mouldy cheese and onion sauce. I didn’t care. It was cheap. I like cheap. Then an old man came barging in. Not a stranger. Not a person I wanted to see either. Montgomery Hawkins the man I currently owed 45,000 pounds. Pounds which I didn’t have. I sprinted out the back door and ou...

Rowenna stared at the princess in shock.

She couldn’t believe it had happened so soon. Sure, Princess Amora had hair that fell around her face in shiny, bouncy black ringlets, bright green eyes, rosy cheeks, and pink lips. Still, Prince Alaric, a prince from a nearby kingdom, should have waited more than two weeks before asking for her hand in marriage. After all, as the youngest prince in ...

The devil couldn’t reach me,

So he cursed me instead.

He placed in my chest a heart

That beats to loud,

And never learns.

It cares for hands that push it away,

It aches for voices that never call back,

It bleeds for strangers who don’t even glance my way.

The devil couldn’t reach me,

But he didn’t need to.

He knew a heart like this would tear it’s self apart

And call it love ....

Every now and then I think to myself “What should I do with my life?”

Life’s ticking while you’re sitting around. Every second every minute. Someone gave you the chance to make something out of yourself, and here you are wasting it away. Get up do something with yourself, you have a purpose. Now are you going to make a difference or look around.

You wake up just to see yourself in the mirror ag...

A: Your time is up. Better run!

B: Look, I know what this may ...

A: I will not repeat myself again!

C whispers to B : I really think you should run.

A: Do you even understand what you've done? I'm sparing you by letting you leave. I'm giving you a living chance. This is a life line. I will not be able to help you if you stay.

A: Do you hear me?

C: Hey?

A: Don't just stand there mute say so...

Seeing only darkness is bad but feeling the redness drenched around me is exponentially worse. The warm, wet liquid is slick between my bruised fingers; it’s slippery where I crouch behind the school stairwell with a dirty hand clamped down on my mouth and a mind that’s reeling.

I can still hear the squelching of flesh when she stabbed Sam right in the throat; the way red squirted across the white...