“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”― Yann Martel, Life of Pi Creation stories explain why and …
Tag: journaling
Prompt: Stealing Memories
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”― Lois Lowry, The Giver Nathaniel could not only read minds, but read someone's past. Their whole history, all of their memories would swarm him like a pack of angry hornets. He couldn't control it either, it …
Prompt: Dying Stars
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”― Neil Gaiman, Stardust Inside every star, at its very core, is an egg like object. In that egg lives the physical embodiment of the star. In some stars, there are humans, in …
Prompt: Winter is Here
“All the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years.”― William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily It was the first winter of the apocalypse. Although global warming had ravished the Earth, the winters, …
Prompt: Facing Fears
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Sandra had always been fearless. As a child she would pick up snakes and chase her classmates around with them. As a teen, she would do any dare you asked of her. Jump off that cliff? Done. Knock on creepy old man Garrett's door? Not a …
Prompt: Oppression
“They are afraid, Tayo. They feel something happening, they can see something happening around them, and it scares them. Indians or Mexicans or whites—most people are afraid of change. They think that if their children have the same color of skin, the same color of eyes, that nothing is changing.” She laughed softly. “They are …
Prompt: Good and Bored
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness …
Prompt: Eyes from the River
“Would it have made a difference?This is the question we always ask after we have given up.”― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative CW: implied suicide and guilt. Would it have made a difference? She wonders as she walks through the dark woods. She liked her night walks, they were the only way to …
Prompt: The Alien Question
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they …
Prompt: Suddenly Super!
"a woman who rented an office/ on the seventh floor of this nondescript building/ on Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles/ where I was meeting with a mitigator/ and the woman I was married to/ for seventeen years, who I had/ two kids with, and who was now divorcing me/ while simultaneously pointing out/ the name …
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