Challenge
The mundane turned suspenseful.
Take an ordinary occurrence and ramp up the tension. Make the everyday exciting. Be sure to keep your story under 1000 words.
This is an exercise in brevity and suspense-building. Fiction, nonfiction; either works. The form, however, must be prose rather than poetry.
Feel free to tag me, @anniejlou , in the comments!
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Painting Horror...
Implications held, stammering along seemingly plain. Incandescent lights glaring down hospital like walks. A surer occurrence than birth, remembered a song. Tuning in and out of touch, smeared walls of colorless blush. Draining the night away, like blood loss, cold. Heaters tucked away, like corners shadowed by ominous stances. A slower feel to reaching up, strokes of death, as slender strips are peeled. A coarse kind of sound shrieking deeper, like long scars. A follicle at first and raining still the paint chips grab your lung. As if to cough out lungs of steel, you echoed hell with sweat in your tears. The room is done. The paint has dried and you have yourself a boring night.