Prompted Shorties

A Roll of the Dice

Prompt: In the spirit of taking chances, roll two six-sided dice. Whatever number comes up, write down the first word you can think of with that many letters. Repeat five more times. Incorporate these six words into a story or scene and see where it takes you.

If you don't have dice on hand, you can roll a pair of virtual dice at .

If you're feeling adventurous, take it to the next level: Add another die and roll 10 times. Note that your words could feasibly end up being 18 letters long. (Or if you're a DnD player like me and you're willing to raise the stakes even farther, you could use a 20-sided die to select your words.)

Story:

Happy is what I wish I would be in twenty years time today, I know it doesn't seem much but I'll settle for "doesn't seem much".

Experiment is what I want to stop doing. I've been experimenting on new things so much that I never tend to finish them, or at the very least, see to it that I exert the effort to actually finish something rather than giving up midway and moving onto the next one. I just feel like I'm wasting too much of my time and energy on something that will never be complete.

Give is something I haven't been doing most of my life, it's always been about me. I've been selfish. I know there are many ways to "give" but in my mind, the concrete satisfaction that I will only achieve when giving something to someone is if I actually give up a thing that I own, for someone in need. Like giving my sandwich to someone asking for food at the street, or give my spare change for someone asking money to buy food or to go home. I've never thought of my stories to be in the "giving" category, even though I've seen people through the comments that they actually liked what I gave them, which was what I wrote. It just doesn't feel the same.

Redirect is what I've been doing when my parents are talking about me being fat. They keep telling me that I just keep eating and that I don't exercise. I've always brushed what they say because the words that come out of their mouths hurt. Only then I realized the saying "The truth hurts" to be true.

Mission is something that I need to have in my life. I've felt that I'm just drifting on the ocean, waiting for a wave to come by and push me to a new direction only to come back to the same state of nothingness and just stay adrift once again.

Complete is the last word that I needed to finish the prompt for the week. At first I thought this exercise would be easy. But as I rolled the virtual dice, it was harder to think of a word that fits the right number of dots that I've rolled than to actually write my response. So here you go.

Random Words:

Happy

Experiment

Give

Redirect

Mission

Complete