Weekly Challenges

Deprivation
Deadline
Write about a character who feels they are cut off from something. How does this deprivation affect the way they go about their life? [Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash]
Weekly Challenges
Deadline
Write about a character who feels they are cut off from something. How does this deprivation affect the way they go about their life? [Photo by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash]
I wake up and stare at the bland ceiling, not moving for a while. I don't know how long I was sitting there, there are no clocks in here. No clocks, no posters, no windows, save for the small, barred slit in the top of the wall.
It had been more than two days since a drop of water had touched his lips. He was beginning to think that he was forgetting what water tasted like, if it tasted of anything.
it was like a sink that was overflowing, built up and up and up.
then it was drained; the pipes rusted over; the slight drip and drip and drip.
tantalizing.
then the water rushed like geysers do, hot and momentarily solid.
I hold my prefrontal cortex with the shame of
sinking, water lilies seeping from my lips into the grey-green
marsh I call (uselessly)
home.
My mind hisses with the strain of too many canned-up voices
saying
Give me something to wish for
Hhhf—
Something to wish for.
I go about every day of my life
Like there's nothing to look forward to
Because there's no end
To my misery