Going to try do prompts this month. Kind of stream of consciousness stuff as I don’t have time for all that planning or editing lark. Am aiming for about 1000 words a day. Let’s see how it goes. They may be dross, but sometimes it is just fun to write and see what comes out without too much thinking…
First up is Fandango’s One Word Challenge.. The inspirational word was ‘Foolish’.
Ok so I cant find his post now.
Go see his site instead. Its pretty cool and full of loads of stuff.
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Dawn crept slowly across the horizon, silver slivers of light devoured the darkness as the sun fought to escape the prison of the thick clouds that hung low in the sky. The incessant crash of waves on the shale beach reminded Alyssa of the endless barbs in his words that tore and pulled at the threads of her sanity for as long as she could remember.
Certainly nothing seemed to exist before him, with his sweet charms and promises of happy ever afters. Nothing ever mattered since that moment when she walked away from all she had known and gave herself to the thought of those tomorrow’s so full of love and life.
“If you love me, “ she could still hear him saying. And she did, God how she loved him.
“Always and forever,” she would say, even when her mouth was filled with the sting of metallic and the bruises turned yellow beneath the long sleeves and high necked blouses.
Standing here now, the waves lapping at her feet, rounded pebbles rolled back into the waves as the sea retreated to safety around her.
The wind was cold as it danced around her bare legs, tugging at her long dark hair as it cascaded down across her shoulders, and was then suddenly whipped around her face as the wind gusted in from across the bay.
High above a single gull circled, and she swore that she heard him in the waves calling her to come to him. Alyssa looked back up the beach as the pale morning light played off the high cliffs behind her, and she watched as her clothes were tossed up and blown into the thick gorse that lined the edge of the beach
“It hurts, “ she heard him say, “deep inside, it hurts so much.”
Alysssa clutched her stomach, feeling his pain, a smile breaking out across her lips.
“You did this, “ he shouted as the wind gusted, white horses topping the waves as they crashed onto the shore and pulled at her legs.
She could taste it on her lips, and his lips on hers, both bitter and deadly
This was his place, his refuge, his evermore, and now only the rage of the storm remained where once he lived so violently.
Afterwards 