Writing Prompt

A hug

That’s all I need

A really long hug

Please

I know

It’s hard

Hugging me

For longer than 10 seconds

I need it

But i can dream

I can wish

I wrote this a week ago in drafts

And it happened today

It can be real

Patience and hope is all that’s needed

And God will make it true...

As the final boarding call echoed through the terminal, they shared a lingering embrace, both reluctant to let go. She whispered, "I'll wait for you," and he nodded, though uncertainty clouded his eyes. He watched as she disappeared through the gate, feeling a strange emptiness settle in his chest.

The days that followed were a blur of routine and restless nights. He found himself constantly chec...

Planes are…fine.

Lou doesn’t love them. She isn’t afraid of heights. They are just confining without any fresh air. But they are temporary. They get you to a different place far away. So they are acceptable. As long as the place they touch down in has a lot of animals.

Another reason to not like them is because that her animal friends can’t come on the plane. She usually doesn’t get to bring t...

Cassius looked over to see Griffin waiting in line for a flight far from home. He had sworn he would get a one way ticket to somewhere far far away. Griffin was tapping and waiting for the line to move. Cas wanted desperately to change his flight but he had his kids. Cas knew that Griffin was his love but he couldn’t find it in him to admit it. He touched his cross then touched the bracelet Griffi...

There’s always hope…there is. There has to be if this love is to remain strong and true. From the moment our lips embraced each other, I felt the truth. I didn’t just know…I felt it. Our eyes locked in before we separated our bodies from one another. This was the broken moment. This was the honest moment. This was the time to say goodbye to my one true love.

Your dark hair being carried off by t...

The middle seat. Nine hours of subtle elbow fighting with my neighbors. Holding it as long as possible to avoid the awkward “excuse me.” None of it mattered. She was back. The spark was still there. I saw it in her eyes and felt it my heart.

I didn’t need movies to entertain me. The memories I’d long confined to a dark corner of my mind, I let them play freely for hours. Every walk, those first t...

“I mean, is there any chance I can convince you otherwise?” Sam wasn’t desperate but she sounded so.

The dreamy guy whose name she still had yet to glean, simply smiled. It was perhaps a little condescending.

“I don’t think that’ll work. And deep down I think you’d agree with me.”

She thought about this, eyes averting from his inviting cheekbones, his broad shoulders. She found courage to sp...

“Shitshitshitshitshitshitshit.” Alana rapid-fire mutters through gritted teeth. She doesn’t realize that she has begun to speak out loud until the tenth utterance of shit.

The crowd around her, equally wrapped in their own busy lives (why else would they be at an airport?) makes no effort to move for her. Why should they? They don’t know she’s about to miss the love of her life forever.

The wo...

“…goodbye.” She speaks first. It hurts but it comes out smoothly enough. No sandpaper throat like expected. In a cruel, cruel way, she’s relieved when she sees a look- no more than a fleeting sigh really- come across his face following the word.

He did care.

Does care.

“Goodbye.” He reiterates. His smile is something.

He turns to leave, bound for Japan or Canada or some other faraway where...

Ray stood to his feet, nearly losing his warm coke and actually losing the stack of magazines and books across his lap, forgotten in the hours of conversation. He knew what had just been said, the goodbyes and fare-thee-wells, but he didn’t care. It took only the back of her head sinking away into the crowd to throw him after her.

“Wait! Melinda wait!” He caught up to her still shouting.

She w...