Writing Prompt

It had been a normal day, and that terrified me more than anything. I had taken the bus home from the high school and tried to open the door, but it was locked. I guess Mom and Al are running late. She still gets picked up from school because the middle school doesn’t have a bus. I take out my keys from my backpack and head inside. I go to my room, grab my computer, and watch YouTube— I mean do ho...

It was too silent…I didn’t even hear the birds singing this morning. After the internal explosion, there was nothing to be heard. The days following were even quieter. A day where my body could calm itself utterly terrified me. “Why allow it to go back to normal if something jurastic might occur?” I silently said to myself. So used to trauma and chaos, my body understood the rhythm of it…it was pr...

I’m terrified by what the news said, astrologers observed that an asteroid is coming straight to earth, at its size it can completely destroy everything, the asteroid or in other words the end of the world will arrive tomorrow morning. As I exited my house, I saw everything in chaos, everyone was doing what they wanted to do a long time ago, what they lack the courage to do in the past. People wal...

She slammed on the floor hitting her head.

Daily routine get up have breakfast change and get into the car.

A tremor went through her veins it did not feel right about driving to work.

Something terrified her.

An instinct of de ja vue of dread

This was if he no ordinary day she thought

But why driving was safe as hell

Same old boring routine

That was the point if it was boring and safe than som...

It was too quiet for the first day of spring. Especially for a winter borne like me. Sooner or later a spring born would come and…

“You’ve got bingo.”

I looked to my husband who was holding up his own bingo card to match with the numbers being called. Dexter marked my card as well though if his eyesight was as bad as he claimed that shouldn’t be possible.

He nudged me. “You wanna let Kar...

It had been a normal day, and that terrified her more than anything.

Daisy Flint set solemnly on the patchwork sofa of her small homes living room, Four arms resting on her thighs as she gazed down at her hands clasped together loosely between her knees. Her eyes were unfocused as she thought about her day. Thought about all the differences it had opposed to yesterday. And the day before it. And ...

She’d been sat at the egg-white desk for over five hours now. Is this what working in an office was like, she wondered, so quiet, so… mundane?

Christine weaved the biro through the fingers of her left hand, squinting really hard at the screen and hoping she looked busy.

Everyone else was so settled, burrowed into their own worlds amongst the mounds of paperwork on their desks. It was impossible...

[I should put a graphic disclaimer here, this one is more dark than I usually write]

April Fourth…

It had been a normal day, and that terrified her more than anything. The sense of impending doom sat heavy upon Cheryl’s shoulders as the day continued on. “Come on, make it happen already!” She kept repeating to herself over and over throughout the day. Yet the situation she expected had never c...

It had been a normal day, and that terrified her more than anything, the days where she had nothing planned were daunting, Elizabeth knew she had to get used to being alone since her breakup, but days were long. When she was alone for a day she became restless and paced around her apartment, she might watch a tv show, but that only lasted so long to stave off her loneliness. She wasn't ready to ge...

It’s been completely normal all day.

Everyone is going about their routine

The girl that sits in front of me got a new haircut.

The math teacher has new glasses.

How can they keep changing.

It’s only been a month.

I don’t want to be on debate team anymore.

None of these arguments matter!

How can you possibly be worried about prom?

What’s the point?

It’s not like it’s a matter of... life and ...