CWP #2

A white wolf has come down from the mountains and is approaching the garden. It is now frighteningly close. Somebody comes to the rescue. (found here)

large__899192933A white wolf has come down from the mountains and approaches the perimeter of my garden. She sniffs around the white picket fence that forms its borders. The wolf saunters up to the open gate, turns to look at me through narrowed piercing brown eyes and turns back and enters. The garden is large, filled with flowers, herbs and vegetables of all kinds. I spend every morning in that garden examining each plant, tilling the soil and providing water when needed. It’s as if the wolf knows this is my sanctuary and she is entering my territory. She walks up the main pathway lined with white stones and stops at the towering eggplant leaves, bursting with beautiful violet globes of fruit. It is only then that I hear the faint cries coming from the garden. The wolf carefully lies down on her belly and scoots under the bush ever so carefully so as not to disturb anything. When she emerges, between her jaws she gingerly holds a snow white wolf cub, softly mewing for his mother. The wolf saunters back out of the garden, tosses me one last glance and takes off back into the mountains.

These are completely unedited and I’d love to read your comments.

What happens to the white wolf in your imagination?

Creative Writing Prompts

origin_4462009469I know that to be a good writer, you have to Write. Every. Day.

I have a lot of catching up to do!

In an effort to explore what topics I’d like to write about, what interests me most, & what writing I’m best at, I’ve been using some creative writing prompts (CWP) to get my thoughts flowing and some words on the page. I plan to share those here, with all of you. These posts will be pure and unedited. The prompts may be something I found on the web, in a book or maybe from a comment from one of you. I may edit them or add to them in the future but for now they are what they are. A method for me to explore my writing creatively and see where my mind takes me.

I think the most unnerving part of this entire endeavor is sharing my writing so publicly and seeking input. I’ve never done that before! I’ve never written specifically for an audience and I’ve never received constructive criticism designed to help me improve my writing. I hope to overcome both of these challenges by sharing with all of you. I invite you to add your own responses to the prompts in the comments on these posts. Lets share together and put ourselves out there. We will only grow as writers in the process, right?

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” ~Anna Quindlen

CWP #2

Jenny slammed the door in John’s face because …………

Jenny slammed the door in John’s face because, in that moment, she didn’t want to see him. She couldn’t see him. Not after everything she had just learned.

Earlier that morning, before the sun rose, she woke to her phone ringing incessantly. She answered, groggily, “Hello??”

The woman on the other end of the line hesitated, then asked, “Is this Jenny?”

Growing impatient at being woken so early, Jenny confirmed to the caller that yes, she was indeed Jenny and she had been sleeping. “Who is this?” she demanded.

“Well, I’m….uh, I think I’m your Mother…”

Jenny’s hand involuntarily lost its grip on the receiver and the phone fell to the floor as Jenny struggled to regain her composure. Picking the phone back up she stuttered “Um, you must have the wrong Jenny. My Mother passed away 3 years ago.”

Jenny hung up the phone, laid back down and closed her eyes. She couldn’t get that woman’s voice out of her head. And the feeling she’d had since she was six years old, that she was adopted, or something. She never knew what it was that made her feel that way. Just this innate feeling deep inside. Her mother always laughed it off when she mentioned it until one day she just didn’t bring it up anymore. But she always felt it.

Don’t get me wrong. I love my Mother. More than anything. She was always there for me no matter what. And when she was diagnosed with cancer I was there for her. Every day, every treatment, every miserable, terrifying moment until she took her last breath. There was just this thread, always hanging there. I wondered about it, asked about it, but was always too fearful to tug on it. But with this one phone call, that thread had been yanked free and now my world was unravelling before my very eyes.

It was true. I had always known, deep down. But why? Did I even want to know why? I’m not sure I did. So when John showed up and knocked on my door I couldn’t talk to him. Couldn’t see him. Did he know, I wondered? I needed to think and I couldn’t do that with him around.

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Why do you think Jenny slammed the door in John’s face?