Write about something mysterious.
Water undulates, flows beneath my back lifting me up — Beep! Beep! Beep!, the alarm clock rang, plunging him from his dream into cold reality under warm covers. He quickly turned off his his alarm to keep from waking his newly wed wife and thought about his next move, wide awake now from curiosity. Did it happen again?
He’d been married just under two weeks and they moved into their new duplex, a rental in the Fairfax District (in LA) last week and almost immediately strange things started, mostly with things disappearing. He didn’t want to alarm his wife so he kept these things hidden from her. And so it was with both dread and curiosity that he crept out from the bedroom.
Though he’d braced himself, he was still startled when he walked into the living room. The dishes — gone. Where there should have been a carefully laid out spread of snacks, beer, and remotes was empty space. That accent of red and orange he put in the arm chair — his shirt — was gone. The trash, gone. The laundry, gone. The collage of magazines he left out, gone. The living room, in fact the whole apartment, was eerily stark. He shuddered.
Could the apartment be haunted, he half-heartedly wondered? Whatever this paranormal activity was, he didn’t want to upset his new wife so he went about the apartment hurriedly putting back those masculine touches the daemon was erasing.
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You show a tuned-in writing style, someone critiquing might say. I bet if you’re not working on short stories, you should plot one and write it. You’d have fun, even for the experience of doing the writing
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I haven’t written since I was in university. Thank you. I might restart. I’ve been adding small narrative touches to my YouTube videos and they’ve been well received, so you might be on to something. 😉
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I indeed like your mystery. Perhaps, the wife sleepwalks, or in this story, sleep cleans. Love the phots.
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😂😆😂 good one! Husbands and their mysterious deeds 🤦🏽♀️.
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We care. We do it because we care.
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I love it 😂😂
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Does that smile means you have such a paranormal entity in your home? 😉
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Is there more to the story or did you write this for the prompt 👍👍.
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Just from the prompt. I thought it was funny. The husband’s ever present mystery: where do all the dirty dishes go?
Does such a paranormal entity live in your home? 😉
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If it does it doesn’t take the dirty dishes away, it brings them back from wherever I cleaned and put them the night before 😂.
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Ah, so you have a husband — or male child.
The point of the story is that we do it out of love, to not burden you with what we see as an otherworldly experience. 😄
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Yep, got it👍and yes, I have 4 of those paranormal entities in my house, a husband and 3 grown men child!
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Or maybeee they were robbed!
On a side note, that first picture- WOOWWWW. That is so beautiful!
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Thanks. I don’t out shooting enough these days.
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Understandable given the situation..
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😄
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