Writing Prompt

Mary Magneline watched as the foamy waves engulfed the rocks below. She had a great urge to get on with it. To finally be free. All she had to take was one step and it would all be over. Suddenly, she heard the flapping of wings and looked up to see a white Dove. Strangely astonished and captivated by its beauty, everything else blurred. All her desires were forgotten and all she wanted to do was ...

“Are you ready?”

“Yes,” I eagerly responded.

“We’ll start with Twinning. It’s an ancient ritual to ensure that our essences are complementary.”

I tried to fight the rising anxiety in my chest. I had invested so much of myself into him, into us, I couldn’t begin to fathom what would happen if we weren’t compatible.

His calloused hands guided my body into his and my pulse stuttered when his arm...

Hannah runs up the stairs, laughter floating of her and her siblings lips. Today is a good day, it is Easter, her family has just gotten back from church, and the girls all wear white sundresses, while the boys wear khaki cargo shorts paired with formal, fitted short sleeve shirts, that vary in pastel colors. Hannah tries her best to pass her siblings, eager to get to the door first, with speed an...

“Such an eager thing, aren’t you?” Linton’s voice echoed off the marble walls, ringing false sweetness. He rolled up the cuffs of his sleeves, the corners of his mouth turning up into a cruel grin as he walked forward. “Some beast you are..” Linton cupped Keam’s cheeks, relishing in the way his tail wagged behind him. Linton’s thumb smeared the blood dirtying Keam’s face further, hardly even spari...

He tried not to be too eager. She was obsessed with waterfalls. And he was obsessed with her.

“This is the most beautiful, most astonishing, thing I’ve ever seen.” She looked at him with gratitude and what looked like desire.

Engulfed in nerves and hope, he tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. And then she kissed him....

The apartment below is on fire. Run out of the house , run out of the house. The fire is spreading. In my “deranged mind,”I was eager to run toward the fire. In my “deranged mind “, I wanted to experience the rage and fury of the brightness of flames a blazing.The fire is escalating..What an astonishmentit would be for me,if I was engulfed in these flames. ....

Eager to prove he was best at his job, Defense attorney Mr. Randell Street was left in awe of what his client is accused of.

“Look at this, Abby,” said the attorney. “It is astonishing to me that any reporters didn’t report on any of these supposed killings Daniel is being accused of!”

“To be honest,” she said between sips of coffee, “one house was robbed, one left pristine, which we both agree co...

This reporter won’t go away.

His eager face glides into the corner of my vision.

Nagging at me.

It’s astonishing to me how much those puppy-dog eyes can persuade.

He hits me with a barrage of questions, not even stopping to breathe.

The weight of these questions takes my breath away.

Talking about my family’s death like it’s just a story-

My feelings, raw feelings, engulf my mind. I can’t think.

I...

I’m eager to have it

And astonished to see it

It wafts through the air like the smell of a fresh baked batch of cookies on the weekend

When I see her, everything freezes as it appears.

She gave me her hoodie and I’m engulfed in her smell, her blue eyes, that I can’t compare because hers is 1,000 times more beautiful.

Her laugh, that cute snort she makes in the middle of a laugh and the way she ...

James had been eager for the season to start. He had been shooting and dribbling every chance he could. And he had loved it. He had not believe it when his coach told him that he would really improve when he started to love to practice. He thought it was just a way to get him and his teammates to work hard in the off-season. But it was astonishing. The more he loved practice, the better he s...