Writing Prompt

**The storm had knocked out the power hours ago, leaving me and my younger sister, Emily, huddled in the candlelit living room. The wind howled through the trees, and the old house groaned like a living thing.**

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**Then came the knock.**

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**A slow, deliberate rapping at the front door. Three taps. A pause. Then three more.**

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**I held my breath, exchanging a terrified glance with Emily...

My world is sinking. My home is this ship. And I’m all alone. My stories sit on these shelfs.

I grew up on this fishing boat. Just me and my dad. My entire childhood are these books. They were my world when I couldn’t get to the one on land. And now we are sinking.

This is no time to be woeful. The water seeping in through the wood is no help and the fact that the only light is flickering like ...

The torchlight flickered as I realized what was happening.

It was just me and Felix. Everyone else hadn’t made it past the trials. They all were eliminated on the fourth trial.

And now I stood, knee deep in water, infront of him. The one who teased me whenever I did something stupid but held me when I had cried. The one who acted like he hadn’t kissed me like the world was ending when fake gas...

The water was knee height when I walked out of my bedroom. What the hell had happened? My brand new school shoes were soaked and I head to even worn them one day yet!

“Mum!” I yelled, “What’s going on?”

The lights faltered for a second, springing on and off. Water gushed out from what seemed like nowhere. It was already up to my hip.

“Dad!” Dom cried out. I rushed towards his room, but I didn’t...

It was our last night. I knew it in my bones. I looked around at all my friends and breathed in my boyfriend’s piercing blue eyes, knowing it was only hours until they would disappear.

I took everything out of the storage chest over and over, trying to cling onto any hope that I would find food, water, a lifeline. But nothing. I felt my heart race and my eyes well up with tears of desperation. ...

Giants roared overhead. Shrieking pierced your tympanic membrane. Pounding footfalls shook the ground. Caustic clouds reached down with ghostly hands. Caressing pain into everything they touched. Dragons breath seared the air to a bloody mess. Lapping hungrily at anything remotely nutritious; flesh and metal alike succumbed to the fiery death.

Frantic hands slapped and banged against the hull, t...

He took a deep breathe went under. Jacobs face summered under water watching his wife and daughter holding each other in their arms. He grabbed the and held then tight. Slowly slipping away....

I told the captain that those parts were faulty. They didn’t look right and my father always said to trust your eyes. But they were cheap and money had to be saved somewhere. So we took the deal. At first everything seemed like it would go smoothly. No sparks flew when they were installed in the engines. They fit right where they were needed and we were back in space, back on our delivery. I thoug...

It hurts.

That’s life, I suppose.

But why does it bite and slice,

Till my flesh deep below is exposed like a sinning nun.

I’ll say it again, till my lungs are broken and bloody,

I’m in pain.

And I’m not feeling any better.

I’d sing you a song about my anguish, yet it may be too raw for the likes of you.

A bloody tissue sits on my bedside table,

You ask about my bloody nose and I don’t u...

The house that held so many of my memories began to change. The bright walls that were covered in pictures of my family had turned dark and rotten. The wooden floorboards creaked as my feet dragged my body away from the door.

The door.

It wasn’t bright red anymore that allowed the light of the outside world to enter. Instead, it was covered in cobwebs; darkness was the only thing to be seen th...