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WRITING OBSTACLE
Submitted by J.L.
From the perspective of a phobia or disease, create a narrative about how you are impacting someone’s life.
Think about how you can personify this particular disease or phobia, or its motives and behaviours.
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The apartment was in shambles, with mess and clutter strewn carelessly across the floor. Dirty clothes, empty bottles, and other various items that Caylee had been swearing week after week to clean up. But lately, there didn’t seem to be a day when she was sober enough to stand. Let alone clean house.
She sat slumped on the couch, with a half-empty bottle of whiskey in her hand. The room smelt o...
✨this story is supposed to show what it’s like to live with a personality disorder. With everybody telling you one thing, but you perceive another.✨
I tilt my head up to the orange sky, the black clouds skating above my head, gathering on the horizon. It looks like a storm was coming soon. “Hey, beautiful day?” An elderly man tilts his cap to me.
“Um..yeah. Can’t help but feel like a storms com...
I watch her walk in and out of the house every day but she doesn’t seem to notice I’m there.
I know if she just gave me a chance that I could help, but sometimes it’s like she purposely avoids me. If she only let me: I could carry some of the burden and make her forget the pain.
People call me manipulative for reaching out at her worst times, but I think if she realizes I love her at her worst...
Poke!
Poke, Poke!
Jab, Jab!
Time to poke someone!
She has trust issues.
Poke, Poke!
Aw, Why is she crying?
It doesn’t matter if she pokes herself with a sewing needle.
How are shots any different?
Doesn't she trust doctors?
Pooookkkeeeee!
All done!
She hasn't gotten over it?
This isn't fair!...
Week One
Dear diary, me and my family have entered our new home, our last entity had too many white soldiers they took away Cousin Flu and his family. I hope the white soldiers don’t find us, in our new home!
Week Two
We arrived at the lungs I am in a battle field Mommy and Daddy are fighting with the soldiers. The Mucus Family is helping, Mommy told me to infect the weak point… still trying to f...
You’re so sweet. So little and naive. So weak and vulnerable. Mine to take. You fit in an arm. All snuggled up and happy. That is until I came around. Your cries are my joy. Your smiles are my poison. I spread through your body, with only one goal. I must not be too sneaky, because you caught up only at phase two. My plan was compromised, but I shall keep on. I’ll grow big. Big enough for you to f...
Gotta remind you
all of the fears
Can't let you go.
must hold on to you tight.
Try and persuade something isn't right.
Cower in the bathroom
You're not doing all right
You 're sick just like I said
I'm just trying to save you
Don’t you understand?
You dont want to get sick
Do you?
Sanitize you hands
Don't eat your food.
Food will get you sick
I hope you remember.
As you tremble
Remembe...
I have loved you since I came upon you, my darling.
You were so beautiful, but way too reckless.
I couldn't watch you destroy yourself, could I? I know my methods are unusal and you don't always understand, why I have to hurt you to keep you save. Be asured, I would never hurt you more than necessary.
You might think you are having a heart attack, but it will be over soon and you'll know it was j...
I want you, dont you see?
Inside and out I want you, and I will have you. My love for you and you only is dirty and rotting but it is love. Ive heard love overpowers anything in the human world, so why don’t you, a human, understand?
I curl myself between the crevices of your body, carving paths to fit in snugly despite your urgency to rid me. This is fine. You dont understand, that I am you n...
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WRITING OBSTACLE
Write a story that includes an example of a braided narrative.
This structure uses multiple interwoven storylines, creating a complex and layered narrative. This can be most easily achieved with different character perspectives or different timelines.