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

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