WRITING OBSTACLE
Submitted by lanie
Write a story, poem, or paragraph, personifying a creaky floorboard in an old house.
Remember this doesn't mean you have to write from its perspective, but give it human characteristics.
The Creak In My Door
They don’t believe me
I swear it’s true though
There’s a monster behind my door
I can hear its nails clawing at the wood
I see the splinters
The monster speaks to me
His words reach no one else
Except my own ears
Even when I am far from its home of oak
I can always feel his waiting breath against my ear
The promise of a whisper to come
Each night I hear the door open, I hear its creak
Quiet but there
They tell me I’m wrong
That I’m hearing things
Crazy, crazy, crazy
That’s what they all think
That my thoughts are scrambled, a melted mess
But they're wrong
They're all wrong
My thoughts have never been so precise
I swear I know the world now
My monster told me
His whispers warned me they wouldn’t listen
Even now,
Though they took away my door and replaced it with padded walls,
Though, they gave me a therapist to share the voice with
A whisper always follows me