Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
Submitted by Reagan Stanton
Write a scene where your character is wrong or in denial about something, but doesn’t know it yet.
Can your character still be likeable or understandable in this moment?
Writings
Legacy
Samantha sat by the phone, anxiously waiting for a call that would never come. Her husband, Jack, had been missing for over a week now, and despite the search efforts, there had been no sign of him. She had received a call from the police earlier that day, informing her that they had found a body in the river, but they couldn't confirm if it was Jack's.
Samantha refused to believe that her husban...
Gone for good
You probably still love me, you just need to take a break,
away from being with me, you've had all you can take
but you'll come around soon, you almost guaranteed it,
you said you loved me then and I still want to believe it
but we're drifting far apart now, I'm scared this is the end
if you leave we're done forever and I don't want to spend
an eternity without you, but I'll be fine, probably
or a...
Denial
She’s not dead.
She’s just…out.
I’ll make her bed
For when she decides to come home.
I know I buried her.
I know I haven’t showed up to work.
But what if she comes back?
What is we were all wrong?
It’s not good to imagine her coming back
My therapists and family all say.
But she always came back before.
She can do it again.
My head can’t picture her cold.
Her hands were always perfectly warm...
Ever Vigilant
As Dale pulled up to the senior center, she could see her husband at his window, dressed and ready for battle.
“He’s been this way all morning,” the staff physician said. “Maybe you can get through to him.”
He had his uniform on, faded and torn over the years. His boots had been hidden away so he was wearing slippers.
“Hello Flash,” she said, hugging him. “What’s the situation?”
“It’s Ming a...
Forever Daydreaming
The two words that she spoke made me freeze. It was incomprehensible. Impossible. She’s lying, right? She has to be. Because there is no world that I could ever live in where this is the truth.
A crazed laugh escapes me. “No. Stop messing with me. It’s not funny.”
She looks at me with pity, as tears fill her eyes. “I’m so sorry. I know how much you loved-“
“Stop it!” I scream, “Stop lying to m...
A Picketed White Fence
A plain white fence that’s all that was holding him back. He could easily jump the fence and he could easily make it to the other side. But there was something holding him back it was an invisible force that wouldn’t let him move and go to the other side. He didn’t get it. It was just a white picket fence. So why couldn’t he pass it? He couldn’t move. Was he afraid? Afraid of what was on the other...
A Cat Amongst the Pigeons
Heavy with the scent of old paper and lemon oil, the library emanated calm. Tank reviewed his team. Agent Tess Morganna, wearing one of her lady business suits, was tapping away on her laptop. Tank didn’t need to be clairvoyant to know Tess was getting pushback from her superiors at the Federal Bureau of Supernatural Investigation. And the FBSI was getting pressure from everyone. There were only a...