Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
Write a story centering around an important meal for the character(s)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville - "It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit and salted pork cut up into little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt."
Writings
Cannibal Family
I’ve been kidnapped by cannibals.
They set me by the dining table.
Is this a dream? I need to be snapped out of it.
I’m no longer mentally stable.
It would seem the wife is the cook. My, oh my she has a lot of cook books.
Family of crooks. The wife looks like a rotten pig with worms in it’s eyes.
Well i’m shook, that’s exactly what we’re eating.
Oh, Christ, I can smell the food. It smells like. He...
A hot dog and an apple
In a small apartment, nestled in the mangled streets of a skyscraper city, John Clark stares at the clock from his favorite chair. Apart from the clock’s dull ticking, John breathes in the silence. The time is 6:19, one minute to sunset. And in exactly 41 minutes, at 7pm, John will never have to check the time again. He always hated clocks and their unnecessary pressure for urgency.
At 6:23 John r...
pipe dream
she’s always dreamt of waking up on a lazy sunday and making breakfast in her own kitchen, the sunlight streaming in through the windows and lighting up her life. maybe there’d be a cat, or a dog napping somewhere close by. maybe there’d be someone in her bed, still sleeping. that one, that last one hurt a little bit because she could see his face, his skin glowing gold with the sun. there’d be pl...
perhaps i should have waited for your arrival.
perhaps i should have waited for your arrival. but my god- the /smell/ that lingered in the air. i couldn’t help myself. and the taste- it was heavenly. it had the right amount out of spices with just a hint of lemon. i wish i would apologize but i cant because i’m not sorry. i wish i you would have never come because you ruined the perfect evening with your anger. how could you ruin something so ...