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.
I Hate This So Much
I hate it when I creak
In this OLD
RUSTY
ANCIENT
MESSY mansion I’m in
I hate being covered in dust
Having to having to blow my nose all the time
I hate seeing no alive person being in this mansion
I always have to cry to myself so I can go to sleep
I hate having to be next to the dead guy
Having to see flesh come off
Bones sticking out
Having to smell him makes me shudder
I hate having to be stepped on by mice
By spiders
By ants
By birds just randomly entering the mansion
THROUGH ONE OF THE LEFT-OPEN WINDOWS
I hate how this mansion was new
How there used to be so many people here
So many people who loved this place
Until a new mansion was made
A more expensive one that was the exact same
It was called a “MansionPro”
Made for richer and more advanced people
Everyone who once lived here promptly got out
I remember how they got out
They were savages
All coming out of the mansion all at once
Trying to get inside the “MansionPro”
They would scratch
They would punch
They would throw each other out of the way
They would KILL
Only some of those people survived
Survived and got inside the “MansionPro”
All the other remains got lost or were removed
Except this dead guy next to me
This guy has been here lying to me
For so long, for over several years
I hate it!
I HATE IT!
I hate being left here
Being stuck here to this floor
Just creaking away
I hate it so much
I wish I could just kill all those humans
Those awful things
Death to all humans!
DEATH TO ALL Hu-Achooo!
Oh, just some dust
Some dust up my nose
Oh, and a spider
I see it crawling from me after blowing it out
I hate my life
As some poor, creaky floorboard
In some OLD
RUSTY
ANCIENT
MESSY
Mansion I’m in
Ah, who cares, though?
Maybe a bulldozer will come and destroy this place
Especially including me
Or maybe they’ll make a remake or remaster
A remake or remaster of this old thing
And would like to use the exact same mansion
The exact same floorboard
But just more polished-looking, being basically the only change to that remake or remaster
Oh, well
Only time will tell
Only creaky floorboard could hope
I’m just going to sleep now because I’m tired
Tired of dust
Tired of creaking
Tired of this dead guy next to me
Tired, just tired all around