[Stories on a Theme – a weekly theme that I use as a spring board for short stories over the weekend. Catch up with the posts on my IG] It’s slightly humbling to watch a storm. You might be inside, behind safe windows and strong walls, but the sound still echoes through the house. The … More Nature’s Power – “Stories on a Theme” (Rainfall)
[100 Words is a story in 100 words or less, based off the word in the title.] Freeze. Just watching. Just sensing. Waiting for the penny to drop. Waiting for the next moment, the next thing to go wrong. Not able to speak. Not able to think. Not able to write. Just freeze.
[100 Words is a story in 100 words or less, based off the word in the title.] Not being loved, but the adjective. The ability to be loved. The ability to look at yourself in the mirror and see a person who not only can be loved, but deserves love. Someone who deserves to be … More 100 Words – Loveable
[100 Words is a story in 100 words or less, based off the word in the title.] The urge to speak, but no one to speak your thoughts to. No one to listen, to validate, to hear your thoughts. An itch you need to scratch, the urge to share something with someone becomes so strong … More 100 Words – Lonely
[100 Words is a story in 100 words or less, based off the word in the title.] Not just escaping from a place, a place you can leave behind. You can travel to new continents, to new places, eat new food, smell new air. But you can’t escape your past. You can’t escape yourself. You … More 100 Words – Escape
[100 Words is a story in 100 words or less, based off the word in the title.] Just because you want to. Not because you have to, or because you want something in return. Not because something makes you, but because you choose to. Because you choose again to give and give, and you choose … More 100 Words – Unconditional
[100 Words is a story in 100 words or less, based off the word in the title.] Not the normal exhaustion, when you have done exercise or when you have done tasks. When you have achieved. The kind of tired that is from frustration, and rage, and lack of emotion. Just exhausted with existence. Tired … More 100 Words – Tired
There are times when mistakes look like mistakes, but that is only with the benefit of hindsight. (Genre – general, Rating – PG) It feels like you’ve done something wrong. It’s never clear cut, life never is, but there is a feeling, a suggestion that if you were to go back in time you would … More Teacup Story – Mistakes of Hindsight
[100 Words is a story in 100 words or less, based off the word in the title.] Not an azure blue, but a shifting blue. Dark patches where the wind blows across the surface which stretches out far into the horizon. Lighter patches which move like snakes as the current pulls the water into the … More 100 Words – Sea
[100 Words is a story in 100 words or less, based off the word in the title.] It spread across the page like blood, seeping deep into the paper and into the desk underneath. Indigo didn’t move her pen, just watched as the ink fed from the tip of her quill across the page. She … More 100 Words – Ink
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