Challenge
Challenge of the Month VIII
Running. You are (or your character is) running from something. Or running to something. Or maybe you just left the faucet running. The theme this month is running. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
Almost dead.
The sink of history drips until it’s almost dead
and we exist in fragments of time, our
creations.
Here we are.
It’s easier to hide from morals and good judgment.
so we eat to make ourselves a little fuller, each day.
consuming
in our same clothing style, almost
vintage, reaching retro, always fast
fashion. we search futilely, grasping
skin & skin &
transparency,
or a lack of
“lifestyle” like “trying to find life”
style, like “i don’t know what i want
but i know i don’t have it” skeleton
reaching for more.
and yet,
I run. in my writing I am always
running from inevitability. and so
I rise
a little tired, dusting off,
and find myself
still—
running.
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