Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
"Parents are human too."
Write a story that includes this dialogue from the perspective of one of your parents during a particularly difficult time in your childhood.
Writings
The Child
For a moment, Jet forgot how to breathe. Then the guilt started flooding over her, guilt and fear and beneath it all, the constant current of anger. Goddammit, she thought. I don’t want to be here. I shouldn’t have to be here!
She dug her nails into her purse. Dimly, she noted how her lime nail polish had flaked against the black leather. She noted it the way she noted the brightness of the overhe...
Parents Are Humans Too
It was 2004 when my mother departed this Earth. I can’t remember the day it happened, the funeral, how my father told me the news, any of it, even though I was nearly six years old at the time.
I can’t remember her face. It faded away into a nebulous sludge, like old memories tend to do. It washed away, lost into the deep abyss of time, reawakened only by dusty old photos stashed away in drawers...
Parents are Human?
“You never listen to me!” Sara shouted, stomping up the stairs in her Doc Martins, shaking every step on her way up. Martha waited for it, then heard the door slam shut, rattling on its hinges as Sara retreated to her bedroom. Martha paused again, as the music assaulted the quiet of the house for a few seconds and then all was quiet. Martha smirked. “Thank God for headphones”, she thought.
S...
Parents
Everyday is a different Story
Living in this apartment building
I watch children argue
Talking back to parents
Other kids hollar at the mom
While the dad is not at home
Many kids won’t listen
Hollering, cussing back at parents
Many are abusive,they do not have respect
Parents try to discipline
The children just get angry
Talking back and cursing
Showing no respect
Parents are human...