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Weekly Contest #83
"Someone came. Someone finally came!" I look out at the radiant sea, and the light, azure color of it fills my eyes. A boat. A small, flimsy, wooden boat was floating delicately towards us, almost looking like a toy you'd find a child playing with during bathtime. Hope begins to emerge inside of me, and I leap up and down, screaming, crying. The beauty of the water surrounding me often brought tears to my eyes, and I stared in awe whenever the waves lazily crawled onto the sand, selfishly clinging to it, only to be pulled away again and agai...
Weekly Contest #74
I never really expected it to happen like this. I've been watching my mother slowly rot throughout the last few years, like a spoiled fruit that had fallen from its tree and dropped to the ground. I always ignored the fact that there may have been something seriously wrong with her. I continued to eat my dinner whenever her fingers fumbled to open the container full of Advil pills. I stared hard at the chipped parts of the ceiling above me whenever she coughed so hard that she dropped to the ground, begging for air. I ignored it. I ignored t...
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