Writing Prompt

“Don’t you just wish you could reach up and grab the stars?” The girl asked, eyes turned upwards and arms outstretched.

“Not particularly.” This came from the boy in the corner, arms folded and leaning against a part of the railing that was shrouded in shadows.

“I’d like to make a crown of stars,” she went on dreamily, oblivious to his tone and the fact that he was staring blankly at the floor. ...

It’s not really contentment.

Well I don’t think it is anyway.

It’s not that i’m fine with what i have,

It’s that i understand that i don’t need more

I don’t deserve more

It’s not really that i’m greedy

That i want more constantly

It’s more like I’m hungry

starving

That I will always need more

It’s not really that I’m lazy

Never doing more than I need to

Just living a life that will pa...

I’ve been in your shoes

Wanting everything at the palm of your hand

To have everything so you can be happy

But thats the problem with your plan

What does everything mean to you

Money? Clothes? Maybe Love

You’ll get your everything

And find that it isn’t enough

I found no use in striving for that goal

The pain got old as I found new lows

I’d hit my goal and sit to rest

I’d have everything one mom...

He wanted everything

I wanted nothing

He looked to the future

While I only saw the present

He wanted to explore the world

I loved our small town

The bigger the better for him

Better something than nothing for me

He wanted the world for us

I just wanted him

Everyone thought it wouldn’t work

We saw it would

Everything just clicked

Nothing would separate us

We were a counter balance

To ...

I don’t need everyone to like me

I don’t need somebody to fight me

I don’t need someone to pick me up when I fall

I don’t need someone to cry on

I don’t need someone to die on

I don’t need somebody to kiss me

I don’t need someone to miss me

I don’t need someone to hold me

I don’t need someone to love me

I don’t need someone to call

I don’t need anyone at all

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I just need some...

Minimalist

Maximus

Living quietly

Living robust

She’s obnoxious

He’s impossible

She’s loud

He’s insufferable...

June 23, 2024

Dear Mr. Nothing,

I saw the mailman leave letters at your door. It’s stacking and I’m worried. I’ve tried to call you and text. Nothing. I asked you how you’re feeling and if you’re hungry or thirsty. If you want some company even. You said you didn’t want anything. Not even a gift or money to help you. It’s almost as if you don’t want to be indebted to your friends and family. I...

Everything Alan owned fit in one single, cardboard box. He prided himself on that: the fact that his life, if he needed to move or relocate or escape in an emergency, could fit in one box. Thats what he was doing now, walking down the New York streets to a new location, when he met Erin, unloading his belongings from a wide body van.

“I have the couch, but let’s get a new one?” Alan heard the ma...

It was dark outside, and two people decide to go for a walk. One of the people wants everything in the world possible, the other wants nothing. They are opposite people; however, opposites attract, correct?

As they were walking in their separate directions, the bump into each other and the one that wants nothing spills his coffee. They looked at each other, both blushing with both romance and em...

"An orange, I think. 

I would like to eat the world as though it were a gigantic orange,

Not nicely, in sections, either,

 Truthfully, with juice dripping."

Silence.

Leaning my head against the bark, the oak who has lived three of my lifetimes. "Can you hear me?"

Perhaps a century of too many confidences has made it deaf.

 "I said I want my joy to be a scandal. 

I want days light with laughter and...