When I found her she was smiling. The slick cavern walls curved around the Wishing Pool and there at its heart she stood. I scrambled breathlessly into her lair. The chase was over. My dreams had been filled with finding the woman who’d appeared to me night after night, the […]
Category: Theme Thursdays
Theme Thursdays are weekly threads on the /r/writingprompts subreddit based on a theme. Each response I post for Theme Thursdays are posted with the full link to the thread at the bottom of each post so the whole thread of all participant’s responses can be viewed.
Per the Theme Thursday thread information, here’s how Theme Thursday works:
Use the tag [TT] when submitting prompts that match this week’s theme.
Leave a story or poem between 100 and 500 words here in the comments.
As a reminder to all of you writing for Theme Thursday: the interpretation is completely up to you! I love to share my thoughts on what the theme makes me think of but you are by no means bound to these ideas! I love when writers step outside their comfort zones or think outside the box, so take all my thoughts with a grain of salt if you had something entirely different in mind.
Theme Thursday: Drowning
I slipped under the water to the sound of her murmured prayers. My hand left hers even as I strained to reach for her again. It was too late. Freezing waves prickled my skin and I stifled a gasp but the delta rushed into my mouth instead of air as […]