Sunny Vacation Prompt (Part 1)

Celia woke up determined to pull herself together. She’d spent the past few weeks mourning the end of a post divorce relationship, crying entirely too much. She was sick of herself and was pretty sure if she didn’t get a grip her friends would be sick of her too. As she made herself a pot of piping hot black coffee she scrolled through her emails, deleting anything ...

“Are you sure this is the place?” Jack whimpers.

I glance down at the email. “That’s what it says.”

“Then why does it look… dead?” Kate asks.

Jack squeaks.

“I don’t know. The email said it was a free week-long ticket to this amusement park.”

Kate snorts. “Looks like you got scammed.”

I groan and look around. This was definitely not a vacation. Years of debris, dust and gravel coat the ground...

Work had been quiet and bit of a drag. Billy’s friends had faded into myth status and he just needed a break from all this drama. Whilst reading some personal emails at work, he discovered an email that had the bold claim that he had won a holiday. Billy was no idiot. He knew that it was a scam but having a closer look, he noticed that it was exactly what his brain was asking for. A week-long holi...

Winning a week-long sunny vacation couldn’t have come at a better time;it almost seemed to good to be true… I entered a raffle for a week in a mansion at the beach. I knew I wouldn’t win! But…..3 weeks later I got a call from CheepzSweepz.com. I picked up and suddenly I heard,”CONGRATULATIONS TO CECILIA MOON FOR WINNING OUR SWEEPSTAKE!!” I squealed and said,”OMG REALLY?!” “Yes! Pack your bags Ceci...

I could not have possibly waited patiently for this.

I went to the location where it stated on the ticket to claim my reward. I arrived at this awful street where only homeless people lived. I checked my location to make sure it was accurate and it was. It was so strange that this was the place.

I knocked at the building, which seemed very old and broken, and no one answered.

“Uh-hello?” I said...

The snow was coming down in great, wet flakes as I pulled into the garage. The forecast was for blizzard conditions over night with temperatures falling into the teens.

“Just perfect,” I mumbled, retrieving the bags of groceries from the back seat. “So damn perfect.”

I went through the door into the kitchen, slamming it behind me and plunking the bags on the counter. This was supposed to be t...

Past experience told me that if something was too good to be true, it was. So when I walked into my favorite lunchtime diner and got a vacation in the Bahamas as a side to my usual burger and fries, I was sure there was some sort of catch. A week long vacation for free just for being the one millionth customer? The doubt wheels were turning in my mind.

However, I could not just turn down a vacat...

A day of rest,

A day of relief,

A lifetime of day dreaming,

Takes me back to a memory.

When the sun rose above the ocean,

And the waves collided with the shore.

When the children sang with laughter,

And the couples drew closer together.

As the evening came to an end,

The sun slept again.

As the moon rose in its wake,

A new setting came to play.

I drew you closer as we danced,

In that moonlight...

A week long sunny vacation in the tropics. Perfect. I can hardly wait. I don’t actually remember entering the competion, but then, I enter all sorts of things if they’re free. I was amazed when the email came saying I’d won and then even more amazed when the plane tickets arrived.

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Here I am, true it’s economy class and true it’s all a bit down market. Why the smelly woman next to me th...

I had never been on a plane before, and the prospect of winning any competition had never even entered my mind, for I never took part in any.

So, when the letter arrived through my door, you can believe I was somewhat perplexed.

It could be an advertisement; I told myself after I first read the letter.

It could be a scam, I told myself, after reading it twice.

But on the third read, I looked ...