Writing Prompt
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VISUAL PROMPT
by Thomas Griesbeck @ Unsplash
'The Lake'. Write a crime, mystery, or horror story about what happened at this location.
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she went to the edge of the dock
at lake champlain
i stayed back
about fifty feet away
and
watched as the wind
blew her blonde hair,
dirty blonde,
into her face
and she put her hood up
from her grey sweatshirt
and i watched her grey sweatshirt
wrinkle back and forth
back and forth
and she stared out at the water
and the wind picked up
more and more
more ...
He know it the only way back.
He gets a running start. There’s no turning back. Each step another creak ,another crack. The wood is more fragile than he thought. He make a last jump and splashes into the lake.
The water extinguishes his cigarette. As he sinks the cig lets off his lips and he watches it float up to the waters surface like a missile.
_I can't do this. I’ve died once and I came b...
He rummaged through the plastic water bottles by the beach.
“Shit, they’re all empty.”
He filled the bong with lake water.
“This’ll probably kill us, but who cares.”
He lit the end of a small rope that he then used to light the weed on top of the bong. This rope “protected him from butane poisoning.”
He inhaled for 15 seconds before clearing. This was not his first rodeo.
As he exhaled t...
It was the dead of night.No noise.No sound.Antonio had been to this lake many times with friends and family , talking about ghost storys of how a young girl had drowned here and every year she appears on the day of her death. Today was that very day.but Antonio had never belived in ghost or ghouls but today that would all change.
5pm
It was a gorgeous afternoon.the sun was shining and Antonio ha...
The lake. It’s all she sees in her eyes. In her memory. She had hoped visiting it would help soothe the memories. She was wrong. Very wrong. The hurt was fresh, tender.
She gently sat down and looked out over the view. The sky was gray and the water was rippling. A storm was coming in and she could smell the rain. A tear slid down her face, followed by another and another.
The world started goi...
The green lake my home town
A place I can remember
A place to feel safe
Mom!
Yes sweetly?
Can I go outside to the lake!? Sure honey be safe
Ok! Oooo look at the lake it’s so pretty!
The fish swimming around the water shinning in the sun
A strange looking rock
*jumps in to get rock*. It’s so shiny!
*wakes up*
I should have never picked up that rock I saw everyone die at that lake
*sweat on f...
I watched the cloud unfurling around the mountains, threatening to creep down the rocky hillside towards the water. I stood on the damp wooden jetty breathing in the moist air. The lake I looked upon was vast and lifeless, a grey expanse. I thought how cold it would be falling into the depths.
It was a booming tourist spot in the warmer months. The lake teemed with visitors splashing with their b...
Deep.
Deep.
Deep.
That was all I could think as water swirled around me. My lungs felt like exploding.
I had already surrendered on flailing a few seconds ago, settling for floating.
Down.
Down.
Down.
I couldn’t see anything anymore. No light, no laughing faces as my campmates thought I was a breath-holding champion, nothing.
I had boastfully claimed that I could swim back up with a brick tied t...