Writing Prompt

I didn’t know we were on opposite teams

When I went for that capture

It’s my first day, not my fault...

Opposite him I sit down. I have no idea how I am supposed to tell him that the moment he has been dreading has arrived. I have to tell him that the illness that his wife has been suffering with has taken such an effect that she isn’t going to survive. I wait before I start speaking, capturing the small bit of hope I still see in his eyes. Once I start to speak I will see all that hope disappear. I...

“Opposite the person I used to be,” this was my mantra at the start of today. Things really have never gone my way. This campus was big enough to keep someone like Tyler out of my life. It was just my luck, last year meeting him, being free, what a joke. He had a way of speaking, so eloquently it could make any English major swoon. He somehow made me feel like Maryanne in Sense and Sensibility.

I...

They say that opposites attract

But they fail to capture the fact

That those with similar faults can heal together...

Opposite of reality, I love in a dream

A harsh nightmare I created, my own deadly scheme

I spun this web for myself only to leave my mind in the Attic alone

Dusty and old, it grown ever more cold

And I am alone

Capture the light and bring it back to me

I can hardly breathe

I need

Anything and everything, yet I still choose to dream

Lost in an endless cycle of what I haven’t been

Or what I should ...