A Fortress In A Dark Place

A Fortress In A Dark Place

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Background: To get back into writing I decided to do some short writing prompts based on images. This is the first one. The prompt is an image I found online under creative commons using the query 'eerie'. I picked my image prompt purely based on what spoke to me. I did not look at it again until it was time to write. This story is named after the name I gave the image when I saved it. I am still writing this and at the moment I'm unsure of where the story is going. I am following where it leads me. To be honest I think I am exploring the emotional journey of my life, and re-contextualizing my baggage through writing this story.
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ONC 2024: In college, it was a case of wrong place/wrong time. Eight years later, they have a second chance. But will they take the leap? ___ Prompt 14: "My muse, believe me, waiting for you has been a form of freedom." ___ Excerpt: "Don't look back." Ian stares at me through the screen with his dark, intense gaze. "Don't long for all the things that might have been. Don't chastise yourself for the decisions you've made." For a moment, his words render me silent. "Appreciate all those little indentations that make you who you are," he says with a tender expression. "And remember your superpower." "What superpower?" "Let yourself dream again." A tender smile crosses his features. "Focus that intense drive of yours on the future like you used to do." He's right. For so long, I've been living in survival mode. One foot in front of the other. Stuck in this nightmare, I haven't been able to see any other way forward. Until now. "You're free now," he says, "to make better choices that will make you truly happy." For a moment, I let my mind take me wherever it wants to go. Right now? It wants to be in Boston, beside him. But can I leave everything behind?

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