Writing Prompt

The walk had been freezing

relentless, gruesome.

It had been snowing and snowing

the woods mumbling a deadly song.

Two souls were wandering till night

through blank and blinding white,

Their hands numb with frostbite

a timid fire creating their only delight

The one mate was sleeping

the other stood guard.

The cold was creeping

Keeping the fire was hard.

Do not play with the fire

it’s your life’...

In a world filled with diamonds

There are a few roughs

Sometimes it’s hard to find them

It can be a little tough

This world of beauty

It’s hard to endure

It’s often not what it seems

What is the cure?

With these imperfect roughs

Amongst the plastic and the fake

There are the shoulds and the musts

But amongst the perfect are mistakes...

Maggie “Red” Riley never wore diamonds, didn’t care about gold, didn’t give two shits about what the world valued. If it wasn’t dirty, broken, or something you could use to break someone else, it wasn’t worth her time. She lived in the cracked concrete corners of the city, the places where people like her were born and left to rot, but Red didn’t rot—she carved her name into the walls instead.

Her...

Oh the stone I see unturened

Must collect every beauty forth

Dont leave one behind

Unless the stone doesn’t match haha

Oh the stones

The besauty in your shell

The sun shines on you

Like a dimond rock

But oh

A stone isn’t what we need

The stone a pebble indeed

A ugly rock

Is all your ever be

Keeping the beauty stones for yourself

A selfish pebble indeed...

Ron ruffled hair in dismay as he read letter.

Uncle Morty wrote that he could not do better.

For all his effort, Ron was out of step with world.

He was a sheep among the wolves in which he’s hurled....

Dude has seven brothers. Yes, that’s where this freakin starts. And they’re all like crazy talented!

Friedrick is a freakin doctor! He got his doctorate really freakin early too! One of the best brain surgeons in the field and you can quote me on that!!

Eric is a true gentleman and is a literal Prince Charming. He could woo a skunk out of a wet paper bag and it would still make the ladies swoon...

“What am I looking at?” Daniel asked.

“You tell me,” Ben countered.

Adjusting the loupe in his eye, Daniel examined the rough gemstone in his fingers. He sighed. Ben was the baby of the family and even if she wouldn’t admit it Ben was Mom’s favorite. Daniel had to work in Uncle Thad’s jewelry shop afterschool and summers. Peter worked two jobs and went to college at night. But not Ben.

Ben w...

3, the third creation their name said it all. all their value they were meant to be perfect. Instead they were 11. They didn’t want to be perfect. That was too hard too scary too much. Why couldn’t they just go home to mama? Mama wasn’t there that’s why. That’s why the creation would say a creation. No one else wanted him so he’d go the one place he would be accepted. Home was not a happy place ho...

The add for the job was too good to turn down

She wanted to work and not wear the crown

Pulling back her golden head of elegant hair

Filling out papers and breathing fresh air

It really felt good being out on her very own

No body following her and watching her home

The place had hired her on the first busy day

She was to carry trays and make the music play

She was happy and smiling all ...

Inside the stone castle, a woman's cries rang through the cold halls. Sat in a pink blanket-y lump atop her canopied bed, Cerise let her mascara run down her rosy cheeks, snot drip onto her upper lip, and thick saliva form strings as she wailed. She wasn’t regularly pretty, so when her husband-to-be, the prince, walked into her tissue-strewn room and caught sight of her state of hysteria, he was a...