VISUAL PROMPT

by Florentina Amon @ deviantart.com/Tiina23

Write a story or poem inspired by this image. What themes and atmospheres come to mind?

When The Sun Doesn’t Rise

I told my parents that when I grew older, I would have a chance at anything.


And for some reason, I didn’t.





My eyes shot open, my ears listening wearily for any source of sound.


Nothing.


I’d been running for almost two weeks now.


From what?


I don’t know.


But it felt like I needed to.


That if I didn’t stay still, they’d get me.


Now, my eyes couldn’t spot any light hardly, just a small gole barely peeking from the top.


Top of.. something.


My hands lifted, feeling for whatever it was I was inside.


I went to sit up and honked my head against it.


I let out a yelp before rubbing my head as I laid.


It felt hard, which obviously I assumed it was. I pushed up, and the kid to it opened slightly, something filling the inside of the box.


I slammed it back shut, terrified.


My hands picked up whatever had entered, but it fell straight through my fingers.


I squinted, trying to figure out what it was with no light to work with hardly.


It came off as hard, yet somehow soft.


I kept squishing until I felt movement, nothing much, just a small wriggling sensation in my hand.


I dug until I found the movement running my fingers along it to ensure what it was.


Short, yet in a straight line.


I felt for a head to make sure it wasn’t a snake, and thank god it wasn’t.


A worm I think…


So that mean it was dirt.


And I was in something hard, unable to stumble out of the horrid thing without staying lied down.


Wait…


A coffin?


But I wasn’t dead.


Yet.


To be continued??

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