Writing Prompt

In a town where secrets hide and shadows creep,

Four perspectives intertwined, a story to keep.

First, a woman's tale, eyes wide with fright,

She saw a man rob a bank, a criminal in sight.

She tells the details, of how he held her captive,

His actions so brutal, it seemed so massive.

But doubts start to form, as the story unfolds,

Is this perspective true, or merely what she molds?

Perspective t...

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Please!

Why won’t she stop

What’s she doing

That child of mine

She’s going to break something

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Please!

Just one more

One more time

Then my brain

Might shut up

One

Two

Three

What?

Why’s she talking

To herself

Is she kidding

This isn’t normal

One

Two

Three

What?

I’ve forgotten

Where I was

Just to be safe

I’ll start again

Then I snap

Then she snaps

For goodness...

I was not there when it happened.

I witnessed the plane hit. It was rapid.

The towers stood tall, but now they are flattened.

I was just one year old.

There were two other attacks, I was told.

Rescue workers were quick and bold.

I was far away from the events.

The belongings in my bag make up my parent's contents.

Who knows what all this devastation presents.

I hear about it every year on the a...

off she goes.

they sent her away

and i know

it’s awful to say

but isn’t the timing

awful convenient?

how she was crying

about how it was a secret?

they both found out

at the same time

and now they doubt

that i wasn’t lying

what if they think it’s me?

think i’m the problem

what if they can’t break free

of the thought it was them?...

If you’re not happy

Do something about it

You’re not a tree

You’re not grounded or have roots to keep you in one place

No one is forcing you to stay where you’re not happy

Go where you’re not wanted

Think real hard before making the leap

If dreaming of something or someone else makes you smile then go be happy

Remember you’re not a DAMN TREE...

Nervous sweat covers me

My crush was my friend

How could this be?

You just asked my to be your girlfriend

Been 20 minutes and I

Don't know what to say

I'm so nervous do I

Have to answer today?

Mom doesn't full approve

Says to ask my friend

That moved

If I should be his girlfriend

Agh, what should I say

Yes or no?

Do I have to say yes today?

I don't know!

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20 minutes, no answer

What will sh...

The times I had with you,

Ahhh, how I had no clue

I loved you, that I knew,

Can you feel all the truth?

You made me feel brand new

The emptiness around your pitiful self,

I can hardly imagine I liked you

I’m ashamed of it, honestly, that I fell,

But I hope you don’t know that...

Whatever happened to the Mary Celeste?

Who encircled the globe in the 1870s

Abandoned off the Portuguese coast bereft

Of her captain, crew all lost to the sea

Her hatches asunder, her quarters a mess

November 25th the ship log’s final entry

Was she the victim of betrayal and theft?

Some look for answers in piracy

Other blame nature for getting her best

Waves, spouts, krakens are the top three

...

Crush on someone

Autistic

Rips farts

Toots

Eats bertrums

Races against hampsters

...

“It was by far the single worst thing I’ve seen in all my life” I say as I leave the theatre with my wife.

She says “are you kidding, that film was so good I want to see it twice, perhaps I may even fork out to see it thrice!”

I ask if she’s joking, she says “I’m not” that leaves me choking and in quite the spot.

“What was it about it you liked so little?” I tell her “it was supposed to be a co...