My dad text me the other day and asked for a video of my daughter saying her ABC’s. […]
short story
So, Day 11’s task is to write a personal blog post on a prompt from The Daily Post. My prompt is called Snapshot Stories.
Another night, lying in bed, searching the ceiling for an answer it didn’t have. Another night of talking to herself, asking questions with no answer. Another night of empty and idle thoughts. She wondered how perfection felt; wondered what joy was and if happiness ever existed. She looked over her bed and found him lying there, sleep taking over and rendering him lifeless for the night hours He slept, while she suffered, and she felt so helpless.
Her words were never understood, her opinion deemed insignificant; her desires weren’t acceptable. She tried countless times to just let well enough alone, but well enough wasn’t what she felt she deserved. She wanted a love that went above and beyond, one she could lay her life on the line for, one that she could sacrifice herself to be apart of something bigger. She couldn’t see that with him.
It’s not the street I usually go down, but for some reason, that day I turned down a […]