Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
Submitted by DarthChesnee
Write a scene where your main character has no control over their facial expressions or laughter. Instead, someone else controls them.
Writings
No Control
Things were different now. Ever since Allie had turned 5 her emotions would rapidly change. She was just a soul while someone else controlled her body.
“Hey, mom!” Allie said, suddenly her mouth turned down and her eyes shut as she got into a yelling position. Nothing came out of her mouth, and her mom had no reaction.
(Me will finish this later lol😭)...
The Unintentional Puppet Master.
“Sunny steps back, a look of terror on her face, when suddenly, she starts laughing, for her terror had been a mask to reveal her true intentions!” I look back at my writing, a satisfied smile playing on my lips. This is only the rough draft, of course, but I like where it is going.
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I step back out of fear, a look of terror on my face as I realize what exactly Julie had done to wind up in a ja...
With A Tickle
It started with a tickle. Vern had stolen all the covers again. When I touched his arm he jerked awake and began to giggle. The laughter bubbled out of him. I turned on my bedside light and just stared. After a few minutes his laughter quieted and he began to snore. Well I was up the rest of the night.
Over breakfast Vern said he didn’t know what I was going on about. But I know I’m not crazy. A...
N0 C0NTR0L
Hana woke up with her messy, butterfly-blue hair in a bun, looking as if all the hair strands were sticking together. She got up, made her extra-messy bed with chip crumbs, a plate from where she last ate dinner and a few bits of food here and there.
After making the bed, brushing her teeth, ate her usual morning Cheerios, she wore her 'Monday School Outfit', which consisted of a short t-shirt al...
The Forest
I am sitting alone in a forest. I loved the forest until this day. Because now when the trees sway with the wind, I am the wind. And when the birds chirp for there friends, I am the birds. Don’t ask me how.
I was just sitting on a quiet log minding my own business when I stood up, walked to a bush, and wind came out of my mouth, so powerful it shook the bush. And a bunny scurried out, only I was t...
A Bad Bargain
“Hah—“ I bit my knuckles but the sounds kept trickling out like blood from a seeping wound.
“Hahaha… haha… haha ha ha HA hahaha.”
It’s a nasty little trick those Fae pulled. Never doing business with the buggers again.
They said they’d grant my wish in exchange for my body.
I wasn’t rightly sure what that meant, but a few balls of multicolored light flew into my ears and now I can’t stop snigg...
Corporate Sabotage - The Beginning
I heard laughter. Laughter, in response to that dry, monotonous anecdote? I was aghast!
My eyes focused in on our interrupted speaker, the department VP, and I did a double-take. Turning, I scanned the individuals around me, staunch old faculty and dyed-in-the-wool buy-ins mostly, and those few young, abitious individuals who, like myself, were trying to get ahead by seeking out more face time wi...
fake smile
cheer up he says
yet my reasonable feelings aren’t validated when forced to tag along
no kids to play with
no kid drinks
only drunk adults with cases of miller lite
feeling unheard with cloudy eyes
I smile beaming of small talk anytime someone walks near by
not because I want to be here but the microwave reads as midnight
I will finally be home soon...
The August Witch Trials 1 — Jitteritis
Clove Morgan giggled loudly, uncontrollably, in the middle of the school cafeteria, during an exam, the written portion of the final exam for her junior year at Witchyton High.
She knew, immediately, that she was under a spell. She had been under enough spells in the past 17 years, her whole life, to know when she was under one.
She cast her eyes around the room, looking for the witch who had ca...