Loyalty

Weekly Challenges

Loyalty

Deadline

Tell a story in which loyalty plays a key role, either in a heroic way or by getting your character in trouble (going along with a friend’s bad idea, for example, or not heeding warnings). [Art by Payton Hruby, YWP]

Submissions

  • Fiction

    By ominous poet

    The Loyal Forest

    She sighed, laying her head back against the tree. How lucky she was, to have this loyal forest, all to herself. This forest that loved no other, that spoke not of her secrets but only of the beauty of its children.

  • Order and Morality

    The man stood, shovelling bloody corpses into his cart

    In a former battleground, as ordered by superiors

    He looked to the sky, wondering if what he was doing was the true right,

  • Trust

    I am blindfolded.

    I cannot see.

    She leads me through the woods.

    Holding my hands and walking backwards.

    I smile and laugh, feeling free.

    She stops, and so do I.

    What is it? I ask her.