Jul 24 2009
Free Writing: Prompt
I asked my friend Huushiita who owns A Faerie’s Life to give me a writing prompt for my free writing of the day and this is what she said.
write about a guy who’s obsessed with words in the dictionary. Could it be becuase he IS from outer space?
“No, seriously, it’s not normal,” Candy was always complaining about one thing or another so generally Mae tuned her out if telling her to “drop it” or “change the subject” didn’t work. They were threading their way through the high school’s halls.
“I’m sure your brother is not an alien,” she replied, running one hand down the length of lockers until she found her own and began to twist the dial.
“You do not live with him,” Candy answered.
“No, I don’t,” Mae responded, carefully. Her attempt to open her locker was then impeded by Candy’s hand on it as the slightly older girl searched her face.
“You DO have a crush on him, don’t you?” Candy said, and twitched, her face contorting into a sickened look, “You have a crush on my brother!”
“I do not!” Mae replied, pulling at the locker door until Candy released her hold. She quickly grabbed her books and threw the old ones in there.
“How could you like someone who reads the dictionary instead of porn? That’s just…it’s not healthy!”
“How do you know he doesn’t actually look at–” Mae started, and cut herself off, spinning the locker’s dial as she shut the door so that it would lock again, “forget I started to even ask that. I don’t actually want to know…I just…can we get to lunch now please?”
Candy shrugged, “I don’t know if I can eat. The idea of you and my brother is just…”
“Just what?” Mae asked, “Are you going to disgorge?”
“What?” Candy asked.
“You know, vomit, spew, regurgitate?”
“Oh. My. God!” Candy exclaimed, “You’re going out with him? His whacky word ways are rubbing off on you! I can’t be around you right now!”
Count 288 words.
This was fun to read!
I loved it.