Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
Write a short story including a letter that was never received.
What impact does this have on the reader's knowledge of the plot and characters?
Writings
Home Up
Taking up the tightly packed letter, loaded with the most precious thing. Knocked on the door and she answered quickly, yelling "Coming!" to the man behind the door.
Snatching the letter and closing the door. Tossing herself onto the couch and opening the paper and it says...
Remember when we were lovesick?
Remember when we loved without caution?
Remember when we trusted and loved the precious f...
☂ Red Umbrella ☂
The letter was sent
she never received it.
Why?
She walked through town
with a red umbrella
in her hand.
The umbrella,
yes, that's important.
Rain dropped with
loud thuds on the
red umbrella.
She held it
tightly in her hand
because of the wind.
A walk
around town
to walk her friend home
with a red umbrella.
The town was small
about 105 houses,
a small market,
and a gas ...
Sycamore Tree
It’s been three hours since I reached the sycamore tree. Anthony was suppose to meet me here. I’m ready to begin my life with him. Run away together. All I want is for us to be free of our parents judgement, control, and bitterness to each other. But my Anthony isn’t here yet. I’ll give it a little longer. Maybe he just got stuck leaving the house. Sneaking away from his parents. I recall my lette...
Return to Sender (Draft)
I’ll never know who she was.
In the early days of the internet there was an initial form of social media, before even MySpace and Friendster, called AIM or AOL Instant Messenger. It was the true Wild West of the internet back then; you search out virtually any user’s screen name and shoot them a text message. Since smart phones weee not a thing yet these programs ran on desktops and you could l...
Lonely
I was going through my late father’s affects when I came across an interesting envelope addressed to me. It never was opened. I grabbed it and took it home to look at.
The letter was from one of my ex boyfriends. It indicated a desire to reconnect. I would’ve reconciled with that man had I seen this communique. Maybe I still could; I was single and still liked the guy, even if my father did not.
I...
View of a Burning City
"Ah, Mr. Taylor, thank you for joining us on such a short notice, but you must understand, this is of utmost importance. Please have a seat, I'll let Mr. Zhang know that you're here." The woman at the desk spoke without standing. Above her hung a sign that read 'Office of Logistics'.
The receptionist motioned for Ridge Taylor, the tall, dark-skinned man who had just entered the waiting area, to h...
Love At Opposite Poles
Between the books peeked a little corner of something white. As Arit decided to start cleaning his father’s belongings, he had started with the books. Books were his father’s(baba’s) world. He remembered lazy Sundays when his bookworm baba snuggled in his cosy chair early morning with a big fat novel, and finished it the same night, reluctantly occasionally getting up for necessary chores. As he g...
The Unknown
Evangeline slowly opened the dusty wood chest and a shiver flooded down her spine.
She sat back on her feet. Kneeling in front of it, her hands shot back to her sides as if she had touched something hot.
A small stack of letters lay in front of her in the chest.
Still in shock she lifted the first one, and then the second. Only to confirm they were all addressed to the same person…
‘To my dar...
The Notice
“Hey Dave, did you finish that application yet? The deadline is approaching soon, you don’t want to be late!” “Not yet, Dad, I just need to finish this paragraph and then I will put it in the mail.” Dave Rutherford, was so excited, it was 1967 and he was just in the middle of his senior year at Jefferson High School.
“There you go” as he finishes his final paragraph of his writing assignment for...
I Wish You Read This (And Things Went Well)
(Draft)
(Added at 9:18 am, 6/2)
Hi Carter! Remeber when Julie yelled your name a couple hundred times outside durning kickball? You looked at me and I was laughing because I was SUPER embarassed....
(Added at 9:42 am, 6/2)
The only reason Jaycie asked you to say hi to me in band was because the first day of school I said I had a small crush on you if I'm being honest. When we were playing football...