The Trap: Weekend Freewrite - 6/23/2018

She felt compelled to pick up the pencil. When she did, it started... she wrote the first words that raced in her mind. Who was going to be the one? They are cute. How could anyone pick just one. The time she has spent in this apartment, alone, has been a long time. She wants to do something about it but the change... that comes with a lot of pain. Looking at our shadows is how we grow. The pain led her to drink and, on a time or two, dabble in the prescriptions pain pills.

"But, I, I am a happy woman." It doesn't look as good on paper as she had imaged it sounded in her head. Tears form at her eyes; she wipes them.

She reaches over to the drawer where the picture of her parents is kept.

"Patricia," Steph says, breaking her concentration, "“Did you hear that Mike called the company president an asshole?" he said.

"No, Steph." She signed. Why are we gossiping? He knows she hates that. "Look, we need to talk about your performance. It has been – lackadaisical, to say the least."

Steph sits on the edge of the bed with his sandwich in hand. "I've got people working on it. Chill." He takes a big bight of his sandwich. The lettuce that crunches is like someone stabbing at her eardrums with a diamond sharp device. She turns back to here paper and writes, How long can I keep the up? He has got to go, or I do. This place is tearing me apart.

Then a sound went BOOM! Patricia and Steph fell to the ground. After a few moments, Patricia could see water coming out from under the door leading into the bathroom. She got up, went to the door, and opened it. Maintenance is required, clearly. This is going to cost them more than they could get.

She went back to her paper and pencil and wrote, I'm leaving this ... this situation, this man, the T.V., the movies, the alcohol, the writings on the wall, the countless nights of crying while he is asleep, the depression, the ungratefulness, the life which leads to the devil, the broken history of my past. I can leave it all.

"Hun."

"Yes?"

"Bed."

She puts down the pencil and does as she is commanded to do.

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My Completed Freewriting prompts:

1. Dude
2. Bittersweet
3. Basket
4. Housecoat
5. Nail
6. Faster Than Light
7. Cane (Bonus: Red Wine)
8. A Ridiculous Amount of Fun
9. Mosquito
10. Bamboo
11. Hook
12. Sweater
13. The Entryway
14. Trolley
15. Flea
16. Awakening
17. Her Homemade Jams
18. Party
19. Important
20. Parasol
21. Back Pain
22. Late
23. Medium
24. Mother
25. Banana
26. Paper
27. Milk
28. Tree
29. Swing
30. Bored Stiff
31. 5
32. Home Alone and Doctor’s Office
33. Monkey’s Wedding
34. Wire
35. Appetite
36. Travel
37. A Kiss
38. Mice
39. Detective
40. Homeless
41. Eyebrows
42. 40 Percent Off
43. One Year
44. Frosting a Cake
45. Bones
46. Clouds
47. Scratch
48. Wet
49. Cherry
50. Depression
51. Camping
52. Caterpillar
53. Quadrillion
54. Describe the Room You Are In
55. Dew
56. Miami
57. Skinny
58. Lizard Cave
59. Mold
60. Herbs
61. Phone
62. Wood
63. Prototype
64. Discord
65. A Jumble of Words

Weekend Free Write:

1. The Picture
2. The Crooked Umbrella
3. The Chair That I’m Strapped To
4. The Stall - Part 1
5. The Stall - Part 2
6. A Common Ending
7. The Stall – Part 9
8. Withdrawal
9. Richard’s Surprise
10. The Trap