Writing Prompt

Most people think im quite but they don’t know when I try to talk and get out of my comfort zone they don’t listen so I’m known as the quiet one out of my family but when I with my family im fun and crazy but they will never know unless they listen....

Inspired by the prompt: “Rotting flowers can still smell sweet…”

In a cottage where ivy kissed broken stone,

Lived Elira, the woman who gardened alone.

Not with tulips in bloom or roses bright red,

But with petals half-fallen and nearly dead.

She plucked them at dusk with a reverent grace,

Each wilted bloom held like a sacred face.

Pressed into oils, steeped in old jars,

Whispers of sorrow seale...

(Tw scuicide)

The day you take your life people will act shocked. They'll say they had no idea you where struggling. "You never showed signs" "you never reached out" "you where silent about your struggles" "you never told anyone."But did you need to? The draining of your eyes, the scars on your arms, the shaking of your knee, your messy room, cutting everyone off,was it not enough? Did your silen...

Edric Ivory was never really good at anything he tried. Especially killing monsters. In a world of mutant creatures and darkness lurkers he could barely even hold a gun. With everything he failed at doing, his confidence level decreased, which really didn't help after the failed Russian science experiment. (The monsters didn't mind though, I'm presuming.)

Edric was currently engaging in target pr...

“Am I quit? Or do you just never listen,” I yelled over the blazing elemental just a mile ahead.

“You’re the loudest yet whitest girl I have ever met. I’m going say it’s the scourching fire that’s just up there,” he said.

“Just get of the damn house,” I shouted.

He jumped of and I yanked his hand so that he would follow me. We bolted behind a large rock. That’s when it began to yell. It was in ...

How loud do I have to speak

To break down your walls?

How much do I have to clutch your shoulders,

shaking until you understand what I want?

Do I have to stab you,

Cut you wide open,

To infect your wounds with my words?

That’s too much work

For just some simple words,

I wish you would’ve heard.

How much longer do I have to strain,

My now-frail vocal chords?

How much longer should I believe I...

“You’re SO lucky to have a raven as a familiar.” Lara sighed. “Having a spider makes me feel like a joke. I mean, she barely talks! Just quiet mumbles.”

“Am I quiet?” Charlotte grumbled. “Or do you just never try to listen?”

Maybe both, given how Louise blithely agreed with Lara and started going on about how wonderful ravens were.

Charlotte felt a bit better when Edgar gave her a sympathetic l...

“Am I quiet? Or do you just never try to listen.” Lorraine shouted at me. I was unsure where this anger was coming from. All I did was open my mouth to give her a compliment. If she only knew how I ached for her. How her mere smile could make my day. I had known here for years. We had started out as classmates and slowly progressed to being friends at each step of their relationship made him lov...

Another cig you

Light, Another urge I fight,

To keep what’s mine, Mine....

Missy was hanging out with her best friends Sarah and Esther, but she was staying quiet. Sarah and Esther both have big personalities, so they usually dominate the conversation. Missy tries to speak up every once in a while, but she usually ends up being cut off by one of the girls. Today, Sarah was talking about how she and her boyfriend broke up. Missy tried to show empathy with her words and no...