(This was another partner project, with the same partner as before, who took over writing again, and the prompt was to write about a phobia. we instead decided to make a haiku about a few phobias. I've listed the phobias but they aren't written in the notebook and I don't remember them all, so a few might be nameless)
Hands gripped on my heart
Thus, goes all my sanity
Now dancing with fear
(maybe phobophobia: fear of fears <typically an anxious response to being afraid I believe>)
Eight legs crawling near
The tickling sensation
Drags me to my knees
(Arachnophobia: fear of spiders)
ʞɔɒd ƨɘɿɒɈƨ noiɈɔɘlʇɘЯ
wɘiv ɿoɿɿim ɘiɿɘɘ ɘʜɈ nI
qoɈƨ ϱninniɿϱ ɘʜɈ ɘʞɒM
(Catoptrophobia: fear of mirrors)
My throat closes up
As sound stutters from my lips
The eyes stare too much
(Agoraphobia: general fear of situations that may cause anxiety)
The cold doors beckon
Kitchen hums screech in the night
Refrigerator
("Psygephobia" apparently, fear of refrigerators)
Burning in my chest
As it enters my blood stream
I fear it's poi--
(Toxicophobia: fear of being poisoned)
Hippopotamus
No, this is not the right fear
The trampling Horse
(hippophobia: the fear of horses)
The walls are closing
The walls are closing in now
The air leaves my lungs
(Claustrophobia: fear of small enclosed spaces)
S- s- s- stop it!
Y- you make fun of m- me?
Don't h-hit me...
(I THINK this is more of paranoia, or maybe Anthrophobia: fear of people, or psellismophobia: fear of stuttering)
The dreams can haunt me
If I let my eyes fall shut
Please, save me from sleep
(Hypnophobia: fear of sleep)
They will use my will
I'll be just a toy for them
Body betrayal
(Maybe the fear of being possessed? The closest I can find is either Daemonophobia: fear of demons, or Phasmophobia: fear of ghosts)
My fear surrounds me
I cannot see anything
Why is there "nothing"?
(Oudenophobia: fear of nothingness)
They are here for me
When the lights are all turned off
The claws grasp at me
(Nyctophobia: fear of the dark)
The panic seized me
my lungs collapsed in on me
my heart, ripped from me...
(IDK)
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My Creative Writing Journal
AcakThese are short stories and prompts from my Creative Writing class in high school, open for any reader to enjoy! If anyone has any suggestions for new short prompts they're curious to see me write about, leave a comment and I may write it in this jo...
