Character Connections

Prompt for 2025-26 challenges:

Character connections: In poetry or prose, write about a connection - whether positive, negative, or neutral - between two characters or yourself and a character.

Posted in response to the challenge Brainstorm Ideas for YWP's 2025-26 Weekly Challenges.

Calico Frost

VT

13 years old

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  • Rainy soap operas

    It starts with the smell

    faint tints of gasoline

    soggy leaves and damp surfaces

    the air moist and wet as the sky prepares its dramatic soap opera.

     

    The opening scene begins

    a drop here and there

  • side character

    Unimportant

    often forgotten

    most times ignored in large groups

    provides assistance

    side character

    never the main character

    never given a chance to be the main focus

    if at least for an hour

  • How did I get here

    Who have I been

    what kind of a friend am I

    who do I really want to be

    what do I want

    why am I like this

    who could I have been

    where could I have gone

    have known

    thought

    experienced