Prompts

Write a note . . . Prompt #177

Hand & PenToday’s writing prompt: Write a note to someone alive or not, to someone currently in your life or from your past. Start with one of these lines:

I forgive you . . .

I love you . . .

I will always remember . . .

This is a note you may or may never send.

You can write about something that happened to you, something that happened to someone else or write from your fictional character’s point of view.

You can also write to a “thing” . . . to a body part, to something mechanical, to any Thing that was meaningful.

Just write.

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3 comments

  1. Ke11y

    Darling Sylvia:

    I hope to be gone before long. I have books to collect, a few clothes and my typewriter. Difficulties, as painful as they were unexpected, have forced me to leave London. I’m mailing the landlady a money order for seven shillings and twenty pennies, the rent for the second week. I have my manuscripts and poems, such as they are, unmotivated, dull. I may go to Paris though a friend told me I’m better suited to Amsterdam. I’m feeling remorseful after the threat to kill myself. Why would I think such a thing would hurt you, let alone have you reconsider your abandonment of me? I meant it; I’m sure. Had the steam train not whistled its approach, breaking my trance of destruction, I would have fallen toward its path. Instead the wind of its passing, the choking smoke from its stack, and the rush of its great wheels pushed me back. I’m sorry for the misunderstandings since my mind is now quite clear. You won’t come back, your mind is made. Maybe I thought your life could never be more fun with anyone else. I will not love you, as you have requested. I will remain extremely fond of you. Let go the pain I’ve caused. Remember what you were before you met me.

    The only honest words I can write are:

    Forgive me. I’m the most grateful bastard in the world for your love. I’ll never write again.

    Ted

    1. mcullen Post author

      Omigosh . . . Kelly. . . this is so spellbinding. I love snippets like this . . . imagining what came before, what prompted the heartfelt note, what will happen next, who the other person is, what she will think, how she will react after reading. So many things to ponder. Thanks for the food for thought. Marlene

  2. justinefos

    OH! Kelly! I think I forgot to breath while I was reading the former lover’s letter. I could feel the wind, hear the train whistle, feel and smell the smoke!
    Wow!

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