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.
Who Is Frankie And Was This Just A Dream
Ouch .. what the heck?? I just got a dang splinter from the floor. I looked over at my partner “Did we remember to pack the tweezers and do you know where?” They replied “I just unpacked the bathroom they are in that cute tin above the sink.”
Sweet i start doing a one legged hop across our new to us 1800s style farmhouse to the bathroom. This place was beautiful we had a lot of work to do. It had a gorgeous wrap around porch with a broken swin attached to it. And the driveway oh my gosh the driveway its why we bought the place when you Enter onto the property the long driveway is lined by a short black fence and trees guide you to the main enterence to the house. One you climb the stairs and enter your greeted with cloud of dust in the foyer and a creepy old staircase that leads up to the bedrooms. To the left is the living area and just passed the stairs down the hallway is the kitchen. It’s beautiful. White cabinets and countertops with and old creaky wood floor . I intend to paint the floors in the kitchen a bright yellow. My partner thinks I’m crazy for this but i think it will be beautiful. However this house is old like very very old.
Like every inch of this place has seen so many different decades i bet it could tell the best stories. As i enter the bathroom i feel a rush of cold air surround me . That feels nice its like 104*f . We haven’t had a chance to get the air fixed yet the people said they would be here sometime this week. I stumble upon the sink and try and reach for the tin. I got but it falls and lands in the rusty metal sink but the tweezers didn’t touch so were good. I pick up the tweezers shaped as a beautiful pin up lady. So cute.
I sit down on the closed toilet prop my foot on my opposite leg and in i go i found the splinter. It’s huge do you think the floor knows i was to paint it yellow and its mad at me . I have this weird feeling that every place I go to or every place I live in is a little bit haunted. At least here i have a good reason for it everything creaks and all the fixtures are old and most original to the new house.
This splinter is huge it like a full 2 inches as i slide it out of my foot , suddenly I’m in the kitchen again but this time everything is huge and i feel trapped. I hear faint laughter around me . And the creaking but this time its so loud that my ears start burning. I hear a voice don’t worrry you’ll get use to it . What the heck why am i seeing myself walking around ?? Oh dear we have claimed a new on what did you do to get yourself here?
I replied whose talking and how many of you are there ? It’s gets quite then I feel myself being tugged i see my partner and but he’s standing on me hey get off help help i tried to scream .. he starts talking to me. I feel the panic set. In thats not me I’m down here .. i hear a faint voice behind my ear mocking me thats not me in a snarky way . Deal this is my house and i was to talk around a check on things you may get your body back if you play by my rules now go along with the others so you can learn how this house works.
I start falling and land on a concrete slab . I look up to someone dressed in a suit with a face thats faded and blurred . His hand reaching for my to help me .i grab it and i get lifter to my feet he’s not alone . There’s a woman dressed in a hoop skirt hair pinned up perfect but she’s missing half her face. So many questions but i was impressed by how real they looked . Am i asleep is this real ? I question myself.
Oh sweetie its very real the owner of this house liked you from the moment you stepped in here he knew you were connected to our realm and the other chimed in and he knew you didn’t know how to use your gifts so he switched places with you . He’s setting up your body so you can communicate with us easily.
What do you mean who are you ? We are the well we get called different things energy people walls doors floorboards but we all in habit this massive house and we all passed away here . How many of you are there ? A lot but only a few of us communicate were trying to find someone like you to don’t tell her and the lady was abruptly interrupted .i was just going to say we want to know what’s going on why are things moving around and our house is getting messed up . Im not trying to mess it up me a my partner just moved in . I promise we will be respectful well thats up for frank the one whose in your body to decide. You will meet him later . Am i ok ? We don’t know how to answer that have you ever been possessed before . Not that i know of and for sure never like this. Well if and when you make it back to your body you will probably be different as he’s never done it this long before?
Where are we going we don’t know we just like to walk the grounds. All of s a sudden I’m seeing the outside of the property through my own eyes but i feel like a whole new person trapped in my own body . Frankie i hears then I’m suddenly inside my own body as i see my face from the inside make a complete turn and look me right in my now face look how cool the voice says ? Im scared you should be you may die from this? He said so non chanantly …. Good bye …
I wake up passed out on the bathroom floor that was the weirdest dream ever and why am i on the floor I stretch my arms and work my way up my foot now throbbing i take a look and that dang splinter is still there.