Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
Submitted by Mel Davies
Write a story about a character who makes an incorrect assumption about someone or something.
Writings
Way More Than I Thought
She’s horrible, I can’t stand to look at her.
Everyday in class I’m forced to glance at her; she sits right across from me.
Her glaring, bold eyes pierce me whenever I seem to look at her.
She looks mean, disgusted, and raging.
How could someone always be in such a bad mood?
And her hair, ugh, her hair! The sun shines it a golden auburn color! I hate it!
Sometimes her soft lips perk into a s...
Assumptions
The best piece of advice that was ever given to me was "Don't make an ass at yourself making assumptions". In life our mind tends to run a million miles a minute, between true crime television, real life scenarios you have heard through the grapevine, or through personal experiences you may have experienced, our brain tends to have this thirst of putting the puzzle pieces together. I mean how mad ...
what did you want me to be?
you raised my brother with baseball, soccer, fencing
now he works in business and tech
you raised me with tutus and tiaras and little pink dresses
and somehow
some way
i fell in love with the meanest sport on the planet
and i like getting beat to shit for fun
what does that tell you,
dad?
yeah,
i was never my father's daughter....
Library Girl
A girl enters the library, slumped shoulders, eyes looking at the ground. Her hair, clothes, and makeup are raven black.
She waves to the librarian before making her way to the table across from me.
Her headphones are blasting metal music, the horrifying cacophony turning heads.
I make my way to tell her to turn the thing down, maybe remind her there are better fashion choices she could be maki...
Over The Rainbow
When I first felt it,
My rainbow felt like rain.
A torrential downpour.
A Kinsey 5 hurricane.
It was beauty and it was pain.
A loss and a gain.
When this technicolor
lightning
strike
Short-circuited my brain.
So I buzzed and buzzed,
Tried to think my way out
Of the truth of me,
I was lying about.
_Out of everyone, why me? _
_After all this time, why now?_
_Is this a truth...
The Wrong Idea
She was beautiful. The most gorgeous woman I had ever seen. She could have been a goddess, honestly. Her clear ivory skin and green eyes were all too striking for me to look away.
She was talking to a group of guys, her head thrown back in laughter about something they were discussing. Oh, how I wish I could have been closer to hear what it was that made her laugh like that.
However, I could n...
Daddy Eleven
Shunk Ka, the sound of a pump action shot gun is distinct and memorable. Slowly raising his hands over his head, Rhys Witherspoon swallowed hard. The insurance agent quaked in his space boots. Usually people were happy to meet their claims adjustor. Or anxious about how much they would receive? Rhys stared into the double barrels and smiled.
“I think there has been some sort of misunderstanding, ...
Wrong
She looked so good walking down the street, jewelry reflecting in the sun, bag swaying at her side. I couldn’t afford a bag like that; never would, never could. She made her makeup and hair look so effortless, as if she were so utterly herself that it was difficult for someone like me, someone who didn’t know who they were, to comprehend. Her shoes cost a month of rent for me. I knew that because ...