Writing Prompt

I told Tommy I wouldn’t come back here anymore. That I’d just ignore Maisie, that I’d forget about her.

But I can’t, I love her. I’m sixteen I don’t have a clue about anything in life, and I love Maisie.

My lungs burn as I sprint down the sidewalk. I have to get to Maisie, I don’t know why, I just have a feeling that she needs me.

Our last talk was so emotional for her. She’s hurt herself, s...

I don’t know why. I just couldn’t help myself. I still can’t. I wake up, think of you, kick myself for thinking of you, get ready, go to school, and see your beautiful funny-looking face, instantly smiling but then realizing I’m doing so and looking away. Everyday, this happens. Everyday, I notice you, look at you, think a little too much about you. A lot too much. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s bec...

I don’t know why.

I just couldn’t help myself.

“What do you mean, Rylee?”

I didn’t hurt anyone.

I mean- not this time.

“So, how are you doing?”

I really wish you would just…

Hush. I mean I’m trying to talk.

How am I doing?

Well I’m doing okay.

I’m hanging in there.

In there by my noose.

“And are you-“

SHUT UP.

SHUT UP!

“I’m trying to help you.”

I don’t need help.

I just need to talk.

And to ...

A little girl asked her mom for a cat and the mom said “ maybe God will give you a cat.” So the little girl ran outside and started praying

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I was on my way to work I noticed out the passenger window a group of fire fighters trying to get a cat out of a tree so I parked my Raptor truck and asked if they needed help so four guys thought it would be a great Idea to get the rope out of my tru...

“I don’t know why. I just couldn’t help myself.” I cry, “I mean, I just did it but I didn’t mean to. I couldn’t stop myself from doing it.”

“You knew it was wrong, you could very well have stopped yourself.” Charlie yelled at me.

I know it doesn’t make sense, but I couldn’t stop myself.

“You broke my locket, you know, the locket keeping me from illness.” She screamed.

Charlie was diagnosed ...

“I don’t know why. I just couldn’t help myself.”

“SO MUCH THAT YOU TOUCHED MY GODDAMN BARBIE”

“Stop screeching like a pterodactyl bro”...

“ I don’t know why. I just couldn’t help myself. I mean…look at you Zach.” Aiden murmurs, as she sits on the bed, drinking from my mug.

In my lair.

In my bed.

“ It still doesn’t answer that…you practically shoved yourself onto me and…” my thoughts become hazy as warmth spreads rapidly onto my cheeks.

Aiden mumbles a small ‘cute’ before answering. “ Well, I already did. You and I have been pla...

“I don’t know why. I just couldn’t help myself.”

My arms remained shakily outstretched, as if I was attempting to calm down a rampant stallion who had just bucked me into the dirt. Arthur's gaze never strayed from mine, his eyes looking through me, cold and dead.

"Arthur. It's okay buddy. We can still fix this." My voice trembled uncontrollably, I knew what had just happened was unfixable, and s...

“I don’t know why. I just couldn’t help myself.”

My jaw drops in disbelief. I’m standing here looking at the man I thought loved me. After finding out he’s been fucking my cousin he hits me with ‘I don’t know why. I just couldn’t help myself’.

“You couldn’t-“ I don’t even finish.

The more I stare at him the more I realize how much of an idiot I am. With his week chin and slightly dumpy postu...

“I don’t know why, I guess I just couldn’t help myself,” she stutters, the words tumbling over each other.

“You couldn’t help yourself to my boyfriend?!” I exclaim in disbelief. “You are - were - my best friend. I can’t believe this.” Emily - who had been my best friend since the third grade - was a cheat, a traitor, a liar. A fake. Ohhhh how those insults were wanting to roll off of my tongue, ...