Welcome back for the seventeenth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring our third universal fear: loss of autonomy through fear of control. Fear of control could mean many things: fear of losing control of oneself, fear of losing control to another, fear of being controlled physically or mentally. What other fear of control can youContinue reading “Fear of Control”
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Freeing Restrictions
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Restriction. OctPoWriMo Limited Restrictions This room is not the smallest roomThis wood chair is not the hardestI don’t know what I’m doing hereThe rules won’t be too restrictive It’s not the strangest rope I’ve feltNot the tightest knot ever tiedI’ll wriggle out eventuallyThe rulesContinue reading “Freeing Restrictions”
Fear of Restriction
Welcome back for the sixteenth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring our third universal fear: loss of autonomy through fear of restriction. Fear of restriction is a fear of being confined. This could be a fear of being bound, of small spaces, or even tight clothing. Rhetorical Device: Litotes Litotes is an ironic understatement inContinue reading “Fear of Restriction”
Paralyzed by Fear of Paralysis
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Paralysis. OctPoWriMo Paralysis She wears a tangy-sweet perfumethe orange blossom tree in springher voice a nightingale—unanimously accepted to bethe sweetest birdsong—sings a funeral dirgechanting: if only, if onlya flutter, flutter, flutter If I could speakI would tell herI’m here and I’m tryingI’m telling myContinue reading “Paralyzed by Fear of Paralysis”
Fear of Paralysis
Welcome back for the fifteenth day of Writober. Today we’re exploring our third universal fear: loss of autonomy through fear of paralysis. Fear of paralysis is the fear of losing control of your body, but as I looked into it, I also found “fear paralysis” which is becoming paralyzed or frozen by fear. So thisContinue reading “Fear of Paralysis”
Screams All The Way Down
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Loss of Autonomy. OctPoWriMo Today is Quadrille Monday at dVerse Poets Pub and the prompt word is “light.” For today’s poem, I was sure that my Artist Magnetic Poetry Kit would have the word “light,” but to my shock and horror, it did not.Continue reading “Screams All The Way Down”
Fear of Loss of Autonomy
Welcome back for the fourteenth day of Writober. Hard to believe we’re already in week three and exploring our third universal fear: loss of autonomy. Fear of loss of autonomy is the fear of losing the ability to do things for yourself, to physically or mentally lose control of your own faculties. This could happenContinue reading “Fear of Loss of Autonomy”
Haunting the Haunted
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Haunting. OctPoWriMo Writober Flash Fiction A Jail Behind My Face It started with a hard, itchy spot on the side of my right cheek near my earlobe. I couldn’t help but scratch at it, even when it would bleed. I must have even beenContinue reading “Haunting the Haunted”
Fear of Haunting
Welcome back for the thirteenth day of Writober. It’s Sunday, and the last day we’ll be looking at the universal fear of separation. Fear of haunting isn’t only the fear of lingering spirits taking physical form, it’s a fear of lingering thoughts and feelings, memories and regrets. By looking back at this week’s fears, theContinue reading “Fear of Haunting”
Lonely in a Crowd
These are my responses to the Writober prompt post Fear of Loneliness. OctPoWriMo Loneliness Arrives Uninvited not a lone wolf but a skunk in a funkor a slug on a sofaslimy and staleslowly oozingleaving sticky trails not a peacock but anamoeba, a parasite of painlike knives stabbingfrom the insideonce it gets init never wants toContinue reading “Lonely in a Crowd”
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