Weekly Challenges
Deadline
The writer's voice is the tone, mood, or personality of the piece. Choose a tone – happiness, guilt, surprise, panic, shame, curiosity, empathy, regret, envy, relief, loneliness, gratitude, etc. – and write a mini-story (5-10 lines is enough) that showcases that tone or mood. [Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash]
I never realized I was lonely
Until they day I met you
And then you left.
And it’s not that I really knew you
More like a friendly face
And it’s not like we will ever be more than that.
I glare across the counter from my spot nestled between the folds of the brown paper bag. Stupid Gala is doing that thing again, as she has every single day, for the past, I don’t know, week?