STORY STARTER

Inspired by Maranda Quinn

Your protagonist has just been released from a 20 year prison sentence and has to adjust to a world that seems entirely different.

Sojourn

Poetry

Twenty years later

the man walks free

the prison collapses behind him

he doesn’t stop to stare or care

the world is different now

it’s a coiled adder

a constricting serpent

suffocating the prey

it’s a graveyard full of mirth

a casket of laughter

sidesplitting red roses

a place now so foreign

the man sojourns

Comments 5

Stitch

2 months ago

Your words like constricting serpent, and casket of laughter pop and hold so much character and meaning. You can really visualize what you’re trying to say. Incredible use of symbolism. I have much to learn from you.

DjinniRB

2 months ago

A casket of laughter a coiled adder your writing is so cinematic.

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