Writing Prompt
Prompt
pamphlet
feature
withdrawal
Write a story or poem that includes these three nouns
Writings
Waste
I have quite often thought that advertising via pamphlet drops through the letter box were a complete waste of time, money and trees until I picked up the bundle of post this morning. I hastily separated the wheat from the chaff and was about to throw the latter in the bin when an image caught my eye and my breath was held back as a failed to exhale.
The pamphlet was in the form of a newspaper b...
A withdrawal from faith
The news was dull today. The front page feature was yet another drab celebrity gossip piece. The words blurred where the never ending rain had beaten the print over the cold winter night. My hand shook a little. I don’t know why, I was used to being cold. Being cold was all I knew, this time of year.
A gloved hand suddenly appeared in front of my face as I sat tucked into a shopfront doorway. A s...
Busy People
The rheumatologist interrupted me as I tried, for the fifth time, to ask him a question.
“Show the photographs of your physical symptoms to this medical student here.”
Okay. Great. Now I’ve forgotten my question.
“These symptoms are common features with SLE.” He muttered to his student, who was nodding and smiling at my phone screen as though he had no idea what was going on.
And with that, i...
A.A.
I can’t remember what prompted me into going these things. It’s not like alcohol was really ruining my life. I have a good job, a nice place, reasonable friends—I just liked having a shot in the afternoon. Or a few in the morning to substitute the Java. Or a couple before bed to shake the insomnia. But it wasn’t a real problem. No, I’d consider a real problem to be the current state of our economy...
Who knows?
The exhausted performer
Looked at the crumpled pamphlet
Finally realizing what it was featuring
There was a lady or maybe a really thin man that looked like a lady
Standing behind a mirror? A curtain?
Who knows?
With a sigh the performer crumpled the pamphlet into a ball and flicked it out of his mind
His head was pounding
The withdrawal of the six bottles of beer was finally starting to kick...