Writing Prompt

(Warning: domestic violence and gore, also it is very long)

_“This can’t be happening, not today anyway._” Dom thinks as she walks into the city square. She tightly grips her younger brother's hand, as they walk into the town square. The town square isn’t normal, one with markets, where festivals take place, it is a place of death; it is where witches get burned. 

The square stings of smoke, ...

CHAPTER ONE

Eden

Tuesday, February 3

I wasn't the most normal person and even as an adult I'm still not.

“Leave me alone!” I shouted. I was sitting on the grass at the park, I had a graze on my knee from where Elizabeth Lewis decided right then was the time to push me over. I had a cut on my elbow and mud all over me. Tears were streaming down my face as she just stood there looking down on me...

It started off with a gullible, weak, not that smart, little girl, who believed in princesses, faries, mermaids, and unicorns. The older she got, the more she changed and went through trials and tribulations throughout her life. She learned from the troubles she went through. They were hard and at one point she broke and became depressed but that didn’t stop her. She kept fighting. Now, is where t...

What happened to me?

What happened to who I used to be?

What happened to that girl?

The one who was all smiles and positivity,

The one who was kind to everyone she met,

The one who was always happy.

The one who was silly, and funny, and messy, and sweet.

The one who wasn’t even capable of hatred,

The one who couldn’t be angry.

The one who didn’t have shadows pressing in on her heart,

The one who w...

𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟴

𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗥 (standing under a canopy outside a hospital while rain poured heavily around her joined by the sound of ambulance sirens in the distance.): Good morning. This is Linda Jones, reporting live from St Thomas’ hospital, where there has been a sudden increase in sickness and doctors are struggling to keep up with patient demand.

(Cut to insid...

(This is not the full story, I’m currently drafting the full story write now)

Chapter One

We arrive in the center of the kingdom square for our “Mission” as the Emperor, Lord Avalon likes to call it, when really a public execution is held every once in a while, when he senses unrest in our kingdom.

We file into the lines, the lines of separation, the poor could never stand next to the wealthy, ...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a palace far away, lived a beautiful princess. That’s how it’s supposed to go anyway. But instead the crown sat on another’s head. Someone a lot less beautiful in Sarah’s opinion. People like that did not deserve to be princesses. Sarah did though. And Sarah believed those like Aurora deserved to die instead. That was to be kept a secret of course. Sarah could...

The potatoes were still too raw to cut the day he found out she survived the famine. Six years without any word. A letter each week with no answer. When he had business north of her town, he would sneak off the train and avoid the check point guards by climbing over the storage depot’s fence, his coat thrown over the concertina wire.

Her family apartment had seemed so much smaller empty of ...

PROLOGUE: THE MAGIC RIVER

The story began with the Wishing Stream. A place normally avoided by those who fear the unknown, it was a magical river that flowed near the small town of Neigedale. The stream ran through the dark and dense woods right where the town came to an end. Unlike the surrounding shadowy woods, the land closest the stream had its own eerie mystical glow. The trees chose not to g...

“Are you going before or after work?” Her mother asked her. “Before.” She quickly answered. She knew she would have to register for the drawing before work for two reasons. The first being the wait time. She knew that if she waited until afterwards that she would be in line for hours. Because most people are going to want to sleep in a little and register later. But also because she knows that if...