It had been weeks. Weeks of silence. Days filled those weeks, hours droned out those days, minutes ticked by in the hours. Seconds, dreaded seconds pattered the minutes, like raindrops that fall just too hard and feel like a strike when they hit. Each second was that moment when you slip and start to …
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Belated Writing Prompt
She was trying not to look at the crown but her eyes were too drawn to it. It's jeweled embroidery crept into the corners of her thoughts, seeping into her consciousness. She cast several glances at it, but a snap from the maid about keeping her head straight shook her gaze forward for the rest of the …
Writing Prompt
"Play it again," she begged. "I just played it three times," her sister protested. The younger one pleaded again, this time with her eyes. "You play it," her sister told her. "I don't know how." "Sure you do." The older sister picked the other's hands up and placed them on the piano. "You just follow …
Writing Prompt
It was a crooked little house, the imperfect kind that you could tell must have been hand-built. Sand-colored stones looped around the windows, lopsided squares of glass thrown and squeezed together at the front of the house. A chimney jutted off to the side, a sloped roof poking out beside it. A tree curled up from along …
Jayda Louise 