Writing Prompt

“What is the most ridiculous thing you have ever believed?” Dante questions, arms extended straight out at his sides as he wobbles along an elevated brick wall, struggling to balance himself.

Retreating my hands from my pockets, I pull out my small cigarette box and a lighter.

After retrieving a cigarette, I light it and shove the box back into my jacket. I do the same with my lighter.

As I rem...

“What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve believed, Rayburn?”

Rayburn looks across the booth to see George Hanwood staring at him intently, waiting for his answer. Henry, beside Rayburn like a statue, has his attention on his wine before him, but his head is cocked to the side, waiting to see how Rayburn will answer.

Rayburn rubs at his eye bags, a bruised purple against his pale skin stretching ...

“What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve believed?”

Hmm. How about 10.

1. That I could be myself.

That people would except me

for what I am.

2. That I was normal.

That I was just

another sheep in the crowd.

3. That everything is perfect.

That the whole

fucking world wasn’t BS.

4. That I would find a friend.

One that stayed by my side.

5. That when people called me stupid,

They were kiddi...

“What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve believed?” She asked with a grin, hungry for an answer. I just smiled nervously, not knowing what to say.

“Um, I uh am not sure,” I sat anxiously and started to tap my foot repeatedly on the ground. I quickly thought up a stupid but believable answer. “Um, I, uh, used to think that monsters were under the bed, when, uh, I was a child. But I don’t anymo...

“What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve believed?”

That my voice was heard.

That I wasn’t just a whisper in a room of people.

That I was brave and not afraid of change.

Alas,

I am wrong now like always.

(I am nothing)

I believed she loved me.

I believed he wouldn’t betray me.

Both stories included love,

One after another ended in a shove.

(I am nothing)

I lost trust in people,

Yet I ke...

“What’s the most ridiculous

thing you’ve believed?”

Tough one.

Let me think.

Most ridiculous thing?

Probably when I believed I’d be okay.

Years of anger piling up on me.

Bury it, watch the ground.

Don’t let it bubble up.

Sound the alarms,

slam the doors,

build walls.

As

soon

as

I

see

the

STORM.

Run and run.

But I can’t hide.

Past will chase me...

I wonder if they knew how it affected her. If they even cared. Surely, when you they people through so much they must feel something… but is it ever remorse? Or do they just revel in her misery, her anguish, her pain.

Life was never kind to her, not really. When she was just a little child her so called friend tarnished her innocence and then commandeered her brother to take part in her dirty wor...

Whats the most ridiculous thing I believed

I used to believe that she was nice

That we could be friends

I used to believe that it would last forever and ever never falling apart

I used to believe that a wall protected our friendship

A wall that would never allow anything to get in the way

I used to believe that friends lasted forever that she would remain our friend forever

I was dead wrong

I ...

“What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve believed?” My collage room mate Halie suddenly asked me it wasn’t unusual for her to ask me random questions like that she did it quite often and it was just one of her personality quirks

“I don’t know I never really thought about it before” I said with out looking at her

“Oh come on you can think of something” she said I did turn to look at her then she w...

“What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve believed?” Vince shifted uncomfortably onto his back and pulled his torn plaid blanket up to his chin with his unshackled hand.

The question caught me by surprise, so much to the point that I was unsure if he was asking me or one of the others. I waited a moment for someone to respond, but no one did. Vince’s head lolled to one side, and I felt his ga...