STORY STARTER
Write a short story in which the main character loses something they are desperate to find again.
Create a sense of urgency and importance to what they have lost, and think about how you can develop your story to build up to the moment they find this item.
longing to talk
romantic silence when just our eyes talk to each other looks across busy rooms knowing we both remember what happened that night and hope that you won’t forget me when you call me to say goodnight praying this isn’t our last goodbye hoping you’ll text me in the morning without begging you too knowing i shouldn’t eat but it comforts me so i do it anyway i worked out today and i tell myself this so i can feel better jealousy, i have eyes of jealousy when she walks in the room and you look at her knowing you used to look at me that way i know i was your downgrade but i still hope you miss me sometimes even if your regretting me at least I’m on your mind lord knows i think about you everyday almost all the time i want her hair and i want to be friends with her friends, i’ve started starving i tell myself i like the feeling of hunger but i no longer feel comfort i see the pain in my own eyes when i look in the mirror he says that’s his favorite part of me but i hate the vulnerability laughing gives me wrinkles so i have stopped laughing i hate my thighs so i have started cutting them i tell myself this is heathy but i know it is not they only like me for my body i dont see what they see in me looking past my personality and admiring the “outside” beauty they see me as a hoe but on the inside i’m broken constantly getting played when will they run out of tokens? he calls me a dime but i like unspoken poetry when we can recognize the heartbreak that fills within my green eyes not to dramatize the truth but only to acknowledge it knowing me for me and not who i am when the sun sets forget what i was when i was unconscious i wasn’t thinking i’m sorry i said i loved you when i knew it wasn’t true forget who i am now i miss when i was apart of you 2 we came in a pair forget who i was when i was jealous i haven’t learned to handle my emotions yet 2 we came in a pair now unspoken guilt flows through the air