Challenge
Up In Smoke: Craft a shortstory, drabble, vignette, or poem that features, includes, or describes the act of smoking.
As a literary device, I love cigarettes. As a real-world item, I hate them. They stink. They're expensive. They're addictive.
In film or a piece of writing, though, they're silent characters with souls of their own. I love the smoky exhalation, the expectant inhale. I'm amazed at those white tendrils, reaching skyward, or the plume expelled into a face by an antagonist.
I love the words and images surrounding smoking.
We can twist the act any way we want. Build suspense. Create tension, or relieve it. Even find humor in the weakness of the addiction.
Let me see your spin on it.
Rest Easy
She smoked and she smoked until she became the smoke. She flew her poison through the air and when it reached the baby's room, it was nothing but despair. The house soon ignited, and everyone's minds are now enlightened. The danger is truly dangerous, and we know now that it's effect is vicious. More and more like her everyday, it's the saddest story we've had to date. Heavy and uneasy, her soul was never breezy. Now, she and her loves must rest easy.