Writing Prompt

Keira Alexander left her house that morning. She was an eighteen-year-old with long, curly blond locks and an ex-boyfriend to go and see.

"Bye Mom!" she had yelled before slamming the door. She didn't know it would be for the last time.

Behind her, her sister and brother, Katelyn and Kevin, shook their heads in disbblief. They knew that their sister had just signed her life over to the cruelty of ...

He had changed so much since he got back home from the war. He seemed off at first, a little bit unsettling but nothing too concerning - but after a few nights he over stepped boundaries, came into Kate’s bedroom at night without her permission and started to carry a knife in his pocket.

Saturday, that’s when we completely lost him. We were all in the dining hall eating a meal when he slammed the...

Please ... stay away ... I saw what he was, I knew what he was but at the same time, I just could never leave him. He had enraptured me and I didn’t want to ever leave. Despite my job as a detective, I just couldn’t stop myself....

Weak. That’s what they’d all been. A homeless vagabond freezing in the chill of December,forgotten. A sickly patient left to rot in a hospital bed,isolated. A lonely soul with no one left to turn to for comfort,alone.

All would be willing to kill for a strand of attention.

This man was their saviour.

The one left to the street swept up into his warm embrace,never to be forgotten again.

The...

A lifetime of neglect and abandonment had taught her to treasure every ounce of love ever sent her way. She'd learned how to clutch and steal and hoard whatever affection she could find in this empty world. So when a man comes along, offering sweet words and caring touches and promises of a life of everlasting love, she fell fast. And she fell hard.

She didn't see the cold, hard, ground speeding ...