Challenge
Your greatest fear
I like the horror genre, because it's a safe way to explore our anxieties. Ghost stories allow children to receive relief from the things that frighten them, just as watching horror movies can help adults work through our fears; from the mundane (being unable to pay our bills) to the truly terrifying (being stalked by a killer). Both are real possibilities, although one is much, much more likely than the other.
The purpose of this exercise is to explore one of your greatest fears by writing about it. Maybe not everyone will feel the same sense of relief I get from writing about mine. But I hypothesize that many writers feel about it like I do.
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Endless Cycle
The possibility is always there
Will they argue again?
Every day, I wonder
Deep down, a jumble of anxiety rests
Churning, tumbling, latching on to every bit of negativity
It grows, adding layer after jagged later
It washes through my body, draining all that I have
I hear it again,
The screaming, the yelling, the sound of glass shattering
The noises collide in my brain, forming into a cacophony of fear
My mind threatens to implode
The battle continues, sapping all traces of color away
It leaves me a husk of my former self
Barely able to recognize the face in the mirror
Desperately, I want it to end
But alas, the arguing goes on