Writing Prompt

I presumed, that when metal

ZOOM!

Past/through? a barrel

It would hit someone_

it's familiar with

The ground

to be stained

from the punctured wound_

of its intended target

As they bleed,

begging for mercy

“The enemy”, I persumed

But enemy of whom

Who's perspective must I respect

to draw more breath_

here, alive

To have a celebratory death

In bed

held by the ones I love

A casket held ...

“Take one shot, stranger. You’ll only get one.”

I thought to myself as I unbrushed my tangled hair into frizz balls. My grandpa told a stranger that when I was 4. I was on the swings listenting to my surroundings, and how the wind whistled through the trees. I was a very thoughtful child, determined to understand what people say.

I decided on an outfit and left for school. Nothing ever happened ...

I could hear the music in the distance, the bass pulsating in the skeevy restroom, practically shaking the mirror I was staring in. Sweat glistened on my brow, causing my bangs to stick to my forehead. I did my best to make them look more attractive, but quickly gave up with a huff. I leaned closer to inspect my makeup, and decided to reapply my lipstick. _Dude Killer_ this shade was called, a dar...

“Take your shot, stranger. You’ll only get one.” The rumble of the gruff voice near me wakes me from my stupor, coming to my senses to see my finger swishing around the bourbon in my small glass shot. Gross. I glance over, two seats away from me, a burley man with a tangled dark beard, holding his own shots of bourbon. He scans me as though i’m an old friend, and i can tell he’s already taken a sh...

Take your shot

All you got

Try or not

Rewrite the plot

Try again

Where to begin

Be a friend

On the mend...

There’s dirt under his fingernails.

I watch in abject horror as he places my cup of water onto the table right in front of me, his hand gripped around the rim of my cup, where my lips are supposed to go.

I swallow the bile that rises in my throat.

“Thank you” I grit out with a fake smile. It’s a shame because he’s cute. Brown Bieber hair frames his smooth, pale features. His eyes are a muted ...

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“Take your shot, stranger. You’ll only get one.” She said after she walked over to my table turned the chair around before she sat down with her arms crossed. Thats all it took. I was hers. That laid back posture. That smile. That opening line that was so nerdy yet also oozed confidence. How do you even respond to such an opening line. “Hi, I’m Ted” clearly wouldn’t cut it with a girl like this. I...

The ballad is posted. I pray, and I pray, every year that my name isn’t printed on that paper that will create my fate, one life altering event. Once, it was a show of worthy. Now, it’s just a blood bath. As I stride over to the gathering crowd I see him. He sees me. A breath, and he makes his way to me.

“How unfortunate,” I sigh.

“Good morning to you to, Bea,” he remarks.

We walk over to the part...

“Take your shot stranger. You will only get one.” That one phrase was enough to throw him off guard. She drew her gun. It hit its target. She never missed.

He fell like rain.

Sure she felt bad but you can’t go around threatening women. She couldn’t believe he hadn’t learned of the Legend of the Hunter.

She certainly had.

And now she was reviving that legend, avenging the lives that had been lost t...